Posted on 10/25/2018 1:40:55 PM PDT by Ravi
More than 360,000 ballots have already been returned in Colorado, but the numbers are lagging behind return numbers from the previous midterm election.
Figures released by the Secretary of State’s office on Thursday showed 367,927 ballots have already been returned for this year’s midterm election. But that’s roughly 150,000 fewer than the same turnout reported by the office four years ago.
The office reported on Oct. 24, 2014, that 518,610 ballots had already been returned. (A note: the reason for comparing different dates is that this year’s ballots started being mailed out on Oct. 15. But the first day that mail ballots may be mailed to voters changes depends on the election day that year. So they were first mailed out Oct. 14 in 2014.)
GOP voters are currently outpacing Dems, but only slightly. The party breakdown from Thursday’s numbers includes 129,008 ballots returned by Democrats, 131,230 by Republicans and 103,472 by unaffiliated voters. For comparison, in 2014, Democrats had returned 164,443 ballots, Republicans had returned 226,923 ballots and unaffiliated voters had returned 121,812 ballots.
Denver County voters have returned 30,696 ballots so far this year, with most of them from Democrats (17,206). Unaffiliated voters have returned 8,275 ballots, while Republicans have returned 4,851 ballots in Denver.
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“I don’t have a feel for Colorado. Anyone with any insight? Thanks “
Yeah, we’ve been overrun by coastal urbanite bug-people.
Too much pot, not much motivation.
Lots of issues on ballots 3 to 4 pages.
“More than 360,000 ballots have already been returned in Colorado, but the numbers are lagging behind return numbers from the previous midterm election.”
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I hope the Democrats are demoralized and hoping the Republicans and others who decide to vote Republican are those voting early.
Still hope it’s a GOP strong vote on Election Day.
Ok that makes sense.
Those comparisons don’t look good.
I live here and have for a long time.
We went to a friends ‘red-wave’ party to talk through the issues and fill out our ballots. Great group, obviously leaning right, which meant we could actually talk openly and not get screamed at by crazy people. We didn’t agree on everything, which was 100% fine! No safe spaces. One tiny dog. And no one cried. It was awesome.
This state, however, has been over-run with people from CA etc. J. Pollis is very likely our next gov. (barf), but honestly the (R) option, Stapleton, was...well...less than inspirational. Most of the obvious issues should fail, like the insane tax increase supposedly for schools. Way too much $$$.
Much of the stuff that LS is posting is comparing 2016 and 2018, while 2014 was the last midterm.
That said, it was a very strong GOP midterm. No Dem motivation. You can’t compare it really to that.
I think 2016 is a better comparison because turnout this year will probably be closer to 2016 than 2014.
Republicans were slightly ahead on election eve of 2016. It turned out poorly. Unaffiliateds broke Democratic, and Hillary won the state by three points.. The state is turning blue.
If I am reading it right, Dems are down ~35,000 but Republican are down ~94,000
That doesn’t sound good.
Better comparison is 2016 this year...everywhere.
Unaffiliateds did break for Hillary and we’ll see what happens this year.
Too bad the state can’t/won’t incentivize conservatives to move there....to attempt to overcome the lefty-loony-left coasters :(
Even though the numbers are lagging, I’m sure the Colorado vote is pretty “high”.
I voted yesterday for all republican in Colorado, and no democrat.
No tax increases, and no amending constitution crap.
I usually vote, “NO,” for judge retaining, but there was one Adams County judge that I was with on jury duty. The guy’s awesome, so I voted for him to stay.
Sadly, I was the only one there voting. But most people are working at that time of day.
Unaffiliated voters lean D
I expect Polis to win. I’m a Colorado conservative independent.
Who writes today’s headlines?!?!
How does this Early Vote compare to 2016 and 2014 at the same time?
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