Isn’t that convenient...
...and they would have had to be drastically different from the established distribution of 52% vs 47% (McAuliffe). The additional 40000 votes would have had to be 30% vs 70% (McAuliffe) to make up the overall difference (~11000).
So I suppose D’s overwhelmingly vote by mail in THAT COUNTY and ONLY BY JUST ENOUGH to win....different than any other county.
Huh.
It’s not just that county. The mail in vote was baked in to the results in other counties. It’s heavily D EVERYWHERE. The problem with Bergen is that only the in-person vote was posted by the AP.
A similar thing happened in VA Beach and Chesterfield. Youngkin was winning both by double-digits. Once the mail-in vote was tallied, the gap narrowed to single digits.
Mail in vote almost always runs 70-80% for the Democrats in the vast majority of States. The only exceptions are places like Utah, which is very Republican, and exclusively uses mail-in voting for everyone.
Where there is a choice, Republicans tend to want to vote in person and on election day. Democrats like to vote early, and they LOVE voting by mail.