Posted on 10/27/2016 5:34:38 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
Cook political report says: "VA: early vote is at only 36% of '12 total in Newport News, 37% in Norfolk, 37% in Petersburg, 28% in Portsmouth. Low AA enthusiasm."
Any VA folks out there who can shed light on these VA cities. Are they DEM or REP areas? The "Low AA enthusiasm" implies they are AA areas and thus DEM strongholds?
ping
Clinton will take VA. She has her flunky McAwful at the helm.
VA Beach good GOP and everything further away from DC also very strong GOP.
Low enthusiasm in African-American (AA) is not a surprise.
“Low enthusiasm in African-American (AA) is not a surprise.”
Agreed, though it is certainly welcome news.
I don’t trust early voting. It gives dems more insight into how much they need to steal.
If, as appears to be the case thus far, AA vote is substantially lower than it was in 2012, you can be sure that Rats will not nominate a white person for president next time around.
It truly does appear that the AA card is quite a bit more valuable than the woman card.
I wonder if AA’s would be enthusiastic about a Hispanic candidate or if they would feel as if they were being supplanted.
There would be a Republican Gov there if they didn’t give up on the race
Early Voting / Final 2012 election votes:
36% in Newport News: 64% Obama
37% in Norfolk: 71% Obama
37% in Petersburg: 90% Obama
28% in Portsmouth: 63.9% Obama
I didn’t know that we have early voting here in Virginia, so I don’t think the early voting numbers have much meaning.
You would think more alcoholics would be interested in this election...
Low black voter turnout means VA may not be in Clinton’s direction.
I live in Virginia and did not know we even had”early voting”. I think it is only marketed to dems. I spoke with a colleague at work who is an election official and a huge trump supporter and he didn’t know. I asked my other colleagues who are conservative in politics and they’d never heard of it in Virginia . Then My ultra liberal Unitarian mother in law bragged how she early voted. They must go make announcements at liberal hangouts and d folks homes......
What does AA stand for?
Well it appears low turn out in early voting in these areas does not bode well for Clinton. That’s a positive for sure.
Dems voters have no enthusiasm for the corrupt witch.
African Americans
Those are Dem areas. Norfolk and Petersburg usually go especially blue. Virginia Beach, which is next to Norfolk and has a larger population has a good chance of going red though.
Never paid any attention to it myself since you have to have a reason.
Apparently 385,000 asked for them and over 240,000 have returned them!
http://results.elections.virginia.gov/vaelections/2016%20November%20General/Site/Statistics/Absentee.html
I was an absentee voter once in Va. In 2000 I had to be out of town on election day and went to the courthouse, filled out my ballot and handed it to the nice lady behind the counter. Now this was 2000 when hanging chads became known to the world so I was hoping that my effort to vote would be helpful. After the dust settled, I found that Bush had won Va by such a large margin that the absentees wouldn’t have changed anything so they didn’t even bother to count them. As far as I know, there is no early voting in Va except by absentee ballot where you have to swear that you will not be able to vote in your precinct on election day. If that has changed, no one told me.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.