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Early voting is blowing the doors off this midterm election,...
Los Angeles Times ^ | 10/31/2018 | Mark Z. Barabak

Posted on 10/31/2018 3:34:15 PM PDT by mdittmar

Early voting is blowing the doors off this midterm election,but it's unclear what that means for Tuesday

Election day is less than a week away, but more than 23 million Americans are apparently so psyched or angry or frightened or inspired or whatever drives people to the polls that they have already cast their ballots.

Early voting has become an increasingly regular part of campaigns, a way for some to avoid last-minute hassles at their polling place or, perhaps, knowing they have hip surgery scheduled for election day, to ensure they make their voice heard by voting absentee.

Turnout for the midterm vote, at the halfway point of a president’s four-year term, typically falls off drastically from a presidential election. But early turnout is running unusually high this fall,

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2018midterms
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1 posted on 10/31/2018 3:34:15 PM PDT by mdittmar
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LA times, illegals gang members and homeless, we’re blowing the doors off


2 posted on 10/31/2018 3:37:35 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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I have never been so motivated to vote as I’ve been this year — even in Presidential election years. But I don’t know if others feel like I do. We’ll know more in a week or so.


3 posted on 10/31/2018 3:41:58 PM PDT by 68skylark
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I wouldn’t doubt it for one minute!! After all the state of caliMEX were granting drivers licenses to ALL illegals just a few months ago!! Consider caliMEX recaptured land by Mexico!


4 posted on 10/31/2018 3:44:21 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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Early voting closes tomorrow where I am.


5 posted on 10/31/2018 3:46:02 PM PDT by sauropod (Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
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Bret Baier’s show is on now as background noise and he and his panel are saying races are shifting to the left now.

Really, the country is now shifting to the left? I find that very hard to believe.


6 posted on 10/31/2018 3:48:41 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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We shall see.


7 posted on 10/31/2018 3:51:09 PM PDT by mdittmar
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Trying to repress the red vote.


8 posted on 10/31/2018 3:53:43 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy UP!)
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First time in my life I did early voting, which was today. For the record, my motivation was, I couldn’t wait to vote, just moved to SC from Ohio last year and was told the place where our area votes has huge turnout and the wait is long. Even today there were at least fifty people waiting to vote. Happened to be sitting next to a woman retIred from Philadelphia, we struck up a conversation. Even before started talking I knew she was a rabid liberal (appearance mostly). As we talked, she said her husband wouldn’t be voting this year because they would cancel each other out......then said they take turns and letting him be the family voter for the 2016, was the worst mistake of her life. ROFL......


9 posted on 10/31/2018 3:56:45 PM PDT by Toespi
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They have been saying that since day uno. It has been the “blue wave” theme or bust. I see nothing that has indicated a “shift” one way or the other.


10 posted on 10/31/2018 4:06:14 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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What races are shifting to the Left?

All I am seeing is dems fighting for their lives. Menendez was supposed to easily win in NJ but is now within a point or two. A betting firm is giving odds the Rep hold the House. McCaskill is losing, the Dem in S Dakota is toast and the lists goes on.

8’m not predicting anything, just saying i have seen none of what they are saying on Fox.


11 posted on 10/31/2018 4:06:54 PM PDT by billyboy15 (Es)
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Which only helps those who control the soros built or controlled voting machines how much and where they have work to do??? Hope I am wrong, but if I am not and there is any attempt by TRUMP and the govt to question the results after you know holy hell will ensue since the cry will be the right doesn’t accept the voters vote...any event if we loose the house the TRUMP era is over and we never expose the sedition that took and/or is taking place RIGHT NOW - THEY WIN!!!


12 posted on 10/31/2018 4:08:36 PM PDT by ldish (Have had enough...you??????)
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Vote Dem! Dengue fever all around! S. and Cent American leprosy for all!


13 posted on 10/31/2018 4:08:58 PM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Meprry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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The pollsters will have to go back to the drawing boards after this election.


14 posted on 10/31/2018 4:09:37 PM PDT by odawg
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I read McSally was in trouble.


15 posted on 10/31/2018 4:11:00 PM PDT by MrChips ("To wisdom belongs the apprehension of eternal things." - St. Augustine)
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This!!!


16 posted on 10/31/2018 4:12:12 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (:¬| Beep beep....boop boop)
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I voted early last time because we were leaving town . I walked in and out of the empty elections office in a few minutes.

We decided to vote early this year just because we were anxious to get it done.

THE PLACE WAS PACKED!


We live in Northern Idaho, but I hope this is indicative of the enthusiasm that may be happening everywhere.

17 posted on 10/31/2018 4:15:00 PM PDT by Baynative ( "If you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu.")
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At some point or another during this cycle I have read at some point that every Republican running for anything from dog catcher on up is in “trouble.”

They might be right. But ask yourself this, would this media write anything other than the GOP is going to lose?


18 posted on 10/31/2018 4:19:14 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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Voted today. Stuck with the Rational party rather than the Demented party.


19 posted on 10/31/2018 4:22:32 PM PDT by tbpiper
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......or to keep the red vote energized...not get complacent given news of high red turnout!


20 posted on 10/31/2018 4:24:53 PM PDT by Forty-Niner (The barely bare, berry Bear formily known as Ursus Arctos Horrilibis (or U.A. Californicus))
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