Posted on 11/07/2016 8:59:36 AM PST by glorgau
WASHINGTON, D.C. — With over seven million votes cast so far in the U.S. presidential election, early voting data is pointing to a tight race in most key battleground states.
But there is one battleground upon which the Donald Trump campaign appears to be headed towards utter defeat: The fight for votes from World War I veterans.
With at least 25,000 World War I veterans casting their votes thus far, the party affiliation breakdown of submitted ballots is suggesting a hard break towards the Clinton camp among veterans who fought in the Great War from 1914-1918, sources say.
Some 98 percent of ballots cast from the demographic have been from veterans who are registered Democrats.
“This is tremendous news for the Hillary Clinton campaign and for the Democratic Party,” said Donna Brazile, interim chairperson of the Democratic National Committee. “We knew that if we could get a strong turnout among the doughboy demographic, we could win this election.”
Other Democratic Party operatives have been coordinating a strong grassroots campaign to register veterans to vote and ensure their ballots are submitted ahead of voting deadlines.
“I’ve been knocking on doors, searching public records to track people down, all sorts of things to identify vets and ensure their ballots make it to a mailbox,” said Andrew Spieles, a college student at James Madison University who is associated with Young Virginia Democrats. “I’m proud to say that I’ve personally registered sixteen World War I vets to vote in the last two weeks, and all of them have indicated their intention to vote for Hillary Clinton.”
Democratic lawmakers expressed their satisfaction with the success of the grassroots operations.
“Winning elections is not about your message as much as it is about voter turnout, so I’m proud of our efforts to get these veterans registered and their votes submitted early,” said Christina ‘Tita’ Ayala, a Connecticut state Representative elected to office on the Democratic ticket. “Vote early and vote often, I always like to say.”
Unfortunately, all World War I veterans we tried to contact declined to comment on the record.
And what about Mexican/American and Revolutionary vets? Who did RE Lee cast his for?
I assume Civil War vets are breaking 50/50.
And what about Traveler? Mr. ED?
Let’s not forget all the Suffragettes who will be proudly casting their first-ever ballots for H!
Frank Buckles was our last survivor and a think he passed around 2013.
I buy it! But if they are alive, they probably think Wilson is still president and don’t remember their own names.
World War I started 102 years ago and ended 98 years ago. Assuming someone who was 14 lied about his age and entered one of the services just before the war ended, that individual would be 112 years old.
I just don't see it .... it just doesn't add up.
Levity is good at this point.
The Devil makes them do it
No they aren’t. They’re just resting! (Monty Python)
Pining for the fjords?
.... after I filled it in for them
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The real answer is
Those Tombstones do not answer questions.
When ‘they’ say something is bad for you, counter with
“How about Baked Beans”
‘I don’t know’
“Well, it is a documented fact that any soldiers that ate baked beans in the ‘War of 1860-65’ died.”
World War I started 102 years ago and ended 98 years ago.
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As to WWI
I joined the Navy, Nov 10 1956, 38 years after WWI ended.
That meant that I at 17 was seeing WWI Vets in their late 50s, early 60s +.
Now we all know that at 17 anyone over 30 is OLD.
So my point being that it has been 60 years since I enlisted and I thought the WWI Vets were OLD.....
Now just thinking of that, makes me old...
I used to be ‘foolish’ enough to say the MY grandkids were lucky, MY Grandfather was OLD...
Seems that it takes a long time for the actual changes in that mug you have been looking at in the mirror for the last ?? Years take a long time to register...
At least in your OWN mind...
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