Posted on 10/21/2020 3:38:22 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Kentucky Democrats have sent in absentee ballots at more than twice the rate as Republicans, but more GOP voters are turning out for early in-person voting, according to voting numbers.
Through Tuesday, more than 282,400 Democrats statewide had returned absentee ballots, compared with nearly 116,000 Republicans, according to numbers provided Wednesday. Absentee ballots had been sent to nearly 422,000 Democrats and more than 188,000 Republicans.
Meanwhile, more than 197,300 Republicans had voted in-person, compared with more than 156,000 Democrats. Early in-person voting began Oct. 13.
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Democrats: 282,400 + 156,000 = 438,400
Republicans: 116,000 + 197,300 = 313,300
And I’d say ‘at least’ 25% of Democrats are crossover to Trump
Yes, I agree with that. I think that will be the surprise Dems can’t defend against.
Only 80,000 margin 13 days before election?
These kinds of numbers being reported by the media don't concern me.
Correct.
Many counties would not allow people to register to vote as Republicans. Republican = Lincoln and party that protected blacks.
All the south was Democrat for decades.
I had to go and get my plates renewed yesterday at the county courthouse....same place where early voting was taking place. there was a line to vote and I can guaranteee that most of them were trump voters.
That is what I keep saying. Just because it went out as a “Democrat” ballot, doesn’t mean it is a vote for Biden. No article ever mentions this possibility. I am glad you did.
25 years ago, Kentucky Democrats outnumbered Republicans 3 to 1. Today, it’s almost evenly split. All this article proves is that old Democrats are voting by mail because they fear the China virus. Trump will win Ky by 30.
> And I’d say ‘at least’ 25% of Democrats are crossover to Trump <
Right. I am a registered Democrat (if you want a building permit in my town, you had better be a registered Democrat).
Anyhow, the last time I voted for a Democrat presidential candidate was, well, never.
I worked my democrat majority county’s early voting polling place on Monday (training for election day). Most voters were 50+ and I’d bet my next check that Trump was killing it. Democrats, sure, but Legacy Democrats and these Kentucky democrats are not enthused about a corrupt communist.
Pubs do not trust that their mail in votes will be counted especially after the game the democrats played with polling places.
The Eastern and Southern parts of Jefferson country had none, until hell was raised. And yes, those are GOP strongholds.
I’ve been a registered rat through my entire adult life but have never voted for an actual rat for anything other than in rat vs rat council primary elections.
Dems have a 48.4 - 42.4 registration edge.
Yet the state has been mostly Republican in presidential elections for decades now
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_elections_in_Kentucky
Slick Willy was the last Democrat who won the state. Even “Hope and Change” failed to crack the code.
66% of the dims who asked for mail in ballots and 88% of the the Republicans? What’s the problem?
Have you looked at the data for the new registrations this year? Off the charts for Republicans vs. Democrats.
“And I’d say ‘at least’ 25% of Democrats are crossover to Trump”
Yes, Kentucky actually IS a state where there’s routinely significant crossover by Dems voting Republican at the top of the ticket, and comparatively little of the opposite (Republicans voting for the D candidate).
Beware applying that theory universally, though. It’ll work well in Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi — all of them former one-party Democrat states, many of whose voters now wouldn’t cross the street to spit on Joe Biden if he were on fire — but analysts who are building in the same assumptions to their number-crunching in the critical swing states are much likelier to be wrong about that.
Now lets check everyone of those vote for authenticity. And contact everyone of those voters to see if they really voted.
IN this commonwealth, there are a lot of “democrats” who just never bothered to change their party affiliation. I would not worry about this.
Party affiliation means less today than it ever has in my lifetime.
“Party affiliation means less today than it ever has in my lifetime.”
That’s a good point, though it’s 180 degrees at odds with the fascination with incremental daily changes in voter registration stats by party in some states.
In many Deep South and border states (like Kentucky) voter registration is clearly a LAGGING indicator, not a leading one. These Democrats have been voting Republican for years — at least at the top of the ticket, and often other races as well — yet they still retain their Democrat “identity” in terms of registration. Eventually a lot of them change, well after their new voting preference has been established.
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