2016: Trump-105,767 Clinton-62,878
2014: Haslam(R)-78,571 Brown(D)-15,986
2012: Romney-109,707 Obama-59,399
2010: Haslam(R)-84,915 McWherter(D)-17,869
Turnout so far this year at presidential level in this strong GOP county in TN (#redwave?).
Turnout in much larger Democratic Nashville and Memphis (Davidson and Shelby County) is about the same as smaller Knox thus far.
https://www.nashville.gov/Election-Commission/Voters/Early-Voting-In-Person.aspx
https://www.shelbyvote.com/sites/default/files/documents/elections/2018/11.06%20State%20General/Summary%20EV%20Report%20for%20Web%20with%20ABS.pdf
This is quite interesting...For those who don't know, TN doesn't provide breakdown by party (R/D/I) amongst those who are voting. We can of course read tea leaves by seeing which counties are participating the most. I have glanced at a few other larger GOP counties and their turnout is also high (the ones that provide daily reports).
I think this tentatively bodes well for Blackburn. We will see.
FYI...Tennessee information (can’t sleep)
I think turnout for the GOP will reach 2016 Presidential levels.
I’m in a small rural county in TN and the turnout yesterday was amazing. Today wasn’t as crazy but it was still busier than expected. I’m with a Republican women’s group and we have a tent set up by the polling station and a lot of people have stopped by to get yard signs and stickers, and just to chat. Several have said they’d voted “R” for the first time, that they’d never vote for a demoncrat again. They’re disgusted by the violent rhetoric coming out of DC more than anything.
I hope the same thing is going on in all the rest of the smaller counties to counter the masses of libs in the large cities.
Dimwit Taylor “not so” Swift is greatly saddened.
It looks to me like the Democrat party may be split into the “hate Trump” vote and the “I don’t care vote”. The Republican party as a whole seems to be coalescing around Trump. Hatred is a very poor motivator for the apathetic portion of an electorate, while economics can be.
Reports of early voting in Washington and Sullivan Counties (solid Republican counties in northeast TN) are of turnouts much larger than typical off-year elections.
Need Blackburn to win. Put money on her also with PredictIt.
Saw the same in my west TN red county. Early voting started Wednesday. First two days were record turnouts