Posted on 09/18/2020 1:41:52 PM PDT by EyesOfTX
The six-week early voting period that Virginia stupidly allows began today, and voters turned out en masse in an amazing display of ferver to get to the polling places. Take a look at this:
My God, it looks for all the world like a waiting line to get into a Trump Rally. Joe Biden, on the other hand, has literally never seen anything like it.
From a story at the New York Post:
Long lines packed with hundreds of voters were seen across Virginia Friday as in-person early voting kicked off there and in other states for the upcoming November general election.
Online videos showed masked and socially distanced Virginians lined up as far as the eye can see in the city of Fairfax to vote in the unprecedented presidential election amid the coronavirus pandemic.
A longtime poll worker in Fairfax told CNN that she had never seen turnout like Friday’s on the first day of early voting.
Arlington County’s elections office tweeted that 200 people cast ballots in the first hour of the polls being open.
Massive lines with enthusiastic voters were also reported in Alexandria and Virginia Beach.
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All of which raises the obvious question: Are these anxious early-voting souls mostly Trump voters or are they mainly Biden/Harris Harris/Biden voters? Obviously, there is no real way to know, but we do have some clues to consider.
First, there is the fact that the article focuses on Arlington, Alexandria and Virginia Beach. Both Arlington and neighboring Alexandria are DC suburbs that became Democrat hotbeds during the Obama years and their massive expansion of the federal bureaucracies. In 2016, Hillary Clinton received more than 60% of the vote in those hardcore Democrat areas. Virginia Beach was more Trump-friendly in 2016, with Trump edging Clinton by about 5% of the vote there.
2016 Presidential General Election Maps – Ryne Rohla
On the other hand, a couple of other factors mitigate in favor of the idea that these early voters could be a little more Trumpy in nature. First, there is the utter lack of enthusiasm for Biden that has been evident in every poll that has asked the “voter enthusiasm” question. Democrats just are really not at all excited about their nominee this year.
Then there’s the fact that Democrats have conditioned their voter base to be all a-skeered to go out and vote in person this year. Despite the Post’s contention that the voters in-line were all wearing masks and practicing “social distancing,” the video clearly shows that to be a false contention. Most are indeed wearing masks, but the social distancing leaves much to be desired.
Bottom line, it’s impossible to know whether these long lines are more Trump-heavy or Biden-heavy, but we can assume we will see similar scenes from all over the country between now and Election Day.
That is all.
Fairfax County had looooong lines. Ridiculous. And about 70% were probably Dem voters.
If you thought the lines of people were for Trump, you were right.
Look for birkenstocks, wirey white hair, crazed looks, Prius pussy cars, the stench of bean sprouts and Starbucks coffee.
What stops them from showing up and voting again on election day?
Remember, Trump has 100% of his 2016 voters.
Plus the hordes of democrats who have switched to Trump.
Then, factor in the massive lack of enthusiasm for Biden.
It will be a landslide like we’ve never seen.
Democrats do t go to rallies because they don’t care who is on the ticket. They vote party. The candidate can be an influence peddling, mass murdering, abortion obsessed, blackmailing fraud. they don’t care. They’ll vote for it
From your lips to God’s ears. But I live in Fairfax. It’s absolutely sickening and demoralizing to see what’s happened here over the last 20 years.
Steve Bannon thinks that the President will win in a landslide, unless the mail-in fiasco somehow succeeds.
My understanding the area is mostly dems...so i guess it’s the rats voting. Anyone from that area to confirm?
So do I and there has been increasing dissatisfaction with Democrats. Northam has pissed off lots of them!
From your lips to God’s ears!
The mail in mess will go up in flames literally!
Arlington? Home to the wealthiest, social justice government contract workers, Justice Department attorneys, lackeys for the banks, World Bank too, and assorted high fliers who wouldn’t vote GOP, ever.
The closest I knew was one man who voted Green because he couldn’t stand Clinton.
Okay. I’ll bite. What are your reasons backing that? I hope you are right.
The ones mentioned are very strong Democratic districts so I am just wondering what you are basing it on.
What ever happened to the concept of a voting DAY!
That is pure baloney! Someone could easily conduct exit polling. They just don't want to know, for some reason.
Trump supporters cannot wait to get to the polls and they will do so in person. Not through some mail-in ballot that the local plug-ugly union USPS worker will likely get to the nearest dumpster.
Every Trump supporter I speak with in the NYC area, and there are a lot of them, cannot wait to vote. It will be massive and it is not being picked up in the phony-baloney polls.
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