Posted on 09/26/2012 12:50:43 PM PDT by Red Steel
Its too early to draw strong conclusions, but its a good bet that early voting in Ohio will surpass 2008 levels. More than 10 percent of Ohios registered voters 723,000 including military personnel and overseas residents have mailed applications for absentee ballots to county election boards, according to the office of Secretary of State Jon Husted. In 2008, about 30 percent of Ohio voters cast absentee ballots by mail or voted early in person.
This years early in-person voting begins Tuesday.
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Much of the early action is in Cuyahoga (Cleveland) and Hamilton (Cincinnati) counties. In Hamilton, absentee ballot requests are running ahead of the 2008 pace by 3 to 1, according to Board of Elections director Amy Searcy. As of this morning, her office had received 58,727 requests. Of those, 9,453 were from voters who requested Democratic ballots in primaries this year, and 17,824 from voters seeking Republican ballots. The rest were nonpartisan.
The nearly 2 to 1 partisan split mirrors current registration in the county, which is about 98,000 Republican and 45,000 Democratic. ...
There are a lot more people who identify as Democrats, she said. Its all a snapshot.
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Romney rally this morning in the central Ohio town of Westerville, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) urged the crowd to cast early ballots.
Ive got a question: How many of you still have an application for an absentee ballot? Lets see those hands, youve gotta do it,..."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Encouraging.
Ping!
You already knew this though. :0)
I am sure if the liberal media was polling this county, they would be sampling + 7 for the Democrats.
Many Dems may stay home when they hear from pollsters like Peter Brown at Quinnipiac because "they think" Obama and company got it in the bag.
What I find interesting is that about 31,000 of the requests were nonpartisan, which is more than the combined totals for the Dems and Reps. Obama won Hamilton 225,000 to 195,000 and Cuyahoga 458,000 to 200,000. Obama won Ohio by about 227,000 votes.
This is why the Dems are panicking and releasing these bogus polls. They hope that it will keep Republicans at home. Dems are NOT enthusiastic about Obama, that is why Obama is going on Letterman and The View, he considers that to be more important because he needs to energize his base. He can’t even get his looney base to the polls. Who watches Letterman..Liberals..who watches The View..liberals..if Obama had this election in the bag he wouldn’t bother going on these shows, he needs to go on them badly to energize his own whack job base
We assume they're telling the truth...but who knows...maybe there's a pile of 10,000 votes...over there....that isn't in this tally.
If Obama was by alot in Ohio and other swing states, he would going into red states and start campaining there.. I remember Bill Clinton came to Texas in 1996, in late Setpember or early October because he was ahead by alot.
Just a quick question....HOW do you know they are republican ballots?! I thought NO one was suppose to know the party or name of the person who mails in their ballot. Just a question, please clarify for me cause right now I’m skeptical about everything being reported out there...Thanks!
Exactly! You would think if Obama were up by 10 points in Ohio(I think Obama is up by the same amount here in California yet I see non stop ads for the prick here) he wouldn’t bother campaigning there. Who wastes their time campaigning in a state they already have won? It would be like Romney campaigning in Texas, or Oklahoma. I follow a girl on facebook who is a lefty(I had no idea she was a lefty til after I added her, she is a nice girl but really misinformed) and she lives in Mason, Ohio, all day yesterday she was posting on her wall, begging people in Ohio to vote for Obama, now if Obama has Ohio in the bag why are leftists begging for votes
Good news
As far as I know, looks like they’re going by the types of ballots being requested. Such and such number requests Republic ballots, ergo, Romney voters.
-——Much of the early action is in Cuyahoga (Cleveland) and Hamilton (Cincinnati) counties.-——
The action in Cuyahoga County is not good. It suggests that the Obama campaign is working with pro-Obama voters to get them to vote early and ensure that they get a high turnout. And this all flies under the radar while letting Obama make up for the lack of enthusiasm on his side.
Maybe you can drag a bunch of unenthusiastic voters to vote for you if you have a whole month to do so.
Surely it will be acceptable to vote by absentee as well as showing up at the polls as the Democrats have been doing for decades. When in Rome.....
The voting signs and indicator when you drill down to the data don’t support the Dem election talking points. To whether that things can be shown to be 100% accurate and without subterfuge that can never be. These Ohio voters are very likely real Rs and real Ds voting early to the most part.
I think it’s more along the lines if you voted in republican or democratic primary, then you’re assigned that party when the ballot is mailed to you.
I think it’s more along the lines if you voted in republican or democratic primary, then you’re assigned that party when the ballot is mailed to you.
WTH?
THIS:
“Of those, 9,453 were from voters who requested Democratic ballots in primaries this year, and 17,824 from voters seeking Republican ballots. The rest were nonpartisan.”
SAYS THE SAME AS THIS:
“The nearly 2 to 1 partisan split mirrors current registration in the county, which is about 98,000 Republican and 45,000 Democratic. ...”
RIGHT?
BUT, DOES THIS SAY THE SAME THING AND SINCE IT DOES NOT HOW IS IT TRUE OR DOES IT MAKE SENSE OR DOES IT NEED TO?
There are a lot more people who identify as Democrats, she said. Its all a snapshot.
And how is it that the other day in polling Cayohouga Co came out so strong for obastard?
WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE?
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