Potential monster vote?
Any feel for how many of those were Trump voters?
Red shirts?
Isn’t Broward heavily democrat? Not sure that’s good news
If I voted early, I'd always be wondering if my vote actually got counted. Maybe that's just me. But I feel more comfortable about my vote counting properly by showing up on the day itself.
That said, I read the other "concern troll" replies about Broward being a heavily Democratic county and therefore this must be bad news for Trump.
Not so fast, I say. There was still a significant percentage of Republican votes there in 2012. How do we know that a larger than normal percentage of Republicans didn't show up because they are motivated. How do we know that there are not a lot of "first time" or "only once in a while" voters in those lines, who are also motivated to vote for Trump.
I'm not saying it's one way or the other. Without doing some kind of "exit" polling, we can only speculate what this means.
Also, if things were the opposite and there was actually a low turnout there this morning, than I'm sure the concern trolls would have a field day with that as well. They would also be saying that this is "bad for Trump" because nobody seems to be motivated.
You just can't win with the concern trolls. They are going to see the negative side of everything.
I'll end with this thought. A lot of registered Democrats may just pull the lever for Trump this year. Just because they are not changing their registration does not necessarily mean they are voting for Crooked Hillary. They will probably see this as a "one-off" Republican vote and then vote Democrat down ticket as they normally do. What should help Trump with Democrats is that the elite Republicans hate him. This will make the medicine go down much better. I know that if we were stuck with Jeb Bush and the Democrats had somebody running as a populist who was outside the establishment, I'd likely vote for the Dem as well. Having a chance at electing a non-politician as president is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that we will likely never see again.
I’ve lived down here since 1991.
Broward County used to be a huge retirement population that would commit suicide before voting against FDR’s party. Lauderhill/Inverarry, Ft. Lauderdale and Hollywood were prime senior areas.
Over time the population has shifted to a younger demo with Caucasian families and as a move-up location for Hispanic and Haitian immigrants from Dade County.
The Caucasian enclaves include Coral Springs, Parkland, Weston and the like while the move-up areas are mostly Pembroke Pines and now Hollywood. It has a very large Black population (Haitians are not African-Americans).
Before Hurricane Matthew, Hillary no-showed an event in Hollywood, not because of her health (she spoke in Ft. Pierce the next day) but because only 8 people showed up at the office event she was going to speak to.
When you look at those numbers and you realize that Haitians are a close knit community that fully understands how the Clinton foundation ripped them off you can easily see a swing of about 10,000 - 20,000 in that county alone, which could almost HALVE the Obama winning margin from 2012.
The key question here is those suburban Moms in Coral Springs, Parkland, etc. A number are transplants but it’s also a much larger number of actual home-grown Floridians too. It’s easy to make fun of how few have grown up here but that is now in the past as many of my friends are local born and raised.
We tend to forget that Florida now has a larger population than New York so don’t make assumptions about this voting surge on either side of the equation. We’ll see soon enough.
Just returned from voting in Citrus County, Florida, and clerks said it was the busiest they’ve seen for first day early voting. No long lines, but a steady parade of early voters. Most looked very happy -— whatever that may mean.
Many of those people are probably voting at least once a day- Everyday- through election day.
Someone should set up a camera on the line and check for reoccurring voters.
Just stand in line wearing your Red MAGA Hat and matching Red Shirt and note the reactions.
That will tell you what direction the wind is blowing.
please be sure to vote
we need every possible vote to overcome the rigged media-SOrozNazi machine