Posted on 10/31/2004 9:38:05 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
In many states (including battlegrounds like Florida) in-person early voting began weeks ago. Today one in five voters nationwide say they have already cast their ballot in some way, and still more were planning to do so before Tuesday when interviewed Thursday through Saturday.
13% of likely voters volunteered that they already voted when we asked if they were likely to vote this year; the remainder told us that they had done so when we asked the method by which were voting.
Early voters split about evenly, one-third each between Democrats, Republicans and Independents. They are a bit older: one-quarter are 65 or over, and eight in ten are above age 45. President Bush holds a lead among them.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Nice, but ther press really shouldn't post this stuff IMO!
I hate the fricken media!
Well, it's sort of unavoidable. You do any polling and you'll call tons of people that have already voted.
Wishful thinking...we all better go out and vote on Yueday or else its President Kerry for 4 years.
Yep..."President Kerry" I'm gagging as I write this...but its what's comming if we dont get out the vote.
I agree this shouldn't be published by now. I could write a post as long as your arm on how we will look back on the Gore decisions to try to steal the 2000 election as the beginning of the end of our election process. And no I'm not kidding.
And you see, this completely contradicts what we were hearing on Drudge a bit ago.
Just keep your head down and vote.
Ok, good news but the story also says that 76% will vote on election day. We are leading but we cannot let up for 48 more hours. Not until the Polls close in Hawaii Tuesday Night/Wedsday morning or Kerry concedes.
I hate Drudge.
Drudge just said it was 51-43 kerry on early voting in Florida.
Yep, me too.
I am afraid its time for a few modifications to the 1st Amendment as it relates to the press and their activities during elections.
Don't blame Drudge...he was quoting USA Today...
He also said some paper said Kerry was up in Ohio on early voteing..
thought the DNC clown Terry McAuliffe said the early votes were going to kerry by a 2 to 1 margin. he said the same thing in 02 and we know how that turned out.
I sure hope the media is telling the truth, which of course would be a stretch.
I heard that too. Again proves my point that the polls suck.
I think Drudge screwed up, because the only 51-43 number I see from the USATODAY gallup poll is this part about Florida
"...According to the USA TODAY poll, it already has: Of 1,300 registered voters in the poll, 30% said they had already cast their ballots.
Lars Hafner, a Democrat who represented St. Petersburg in the state Legislature, thinks that may be an important factor behind Kerry's showing. Bush had a 51%-43% lead last week."
He's been annoying me for the past few weeks, sensationalizing every poll that comes out.
contradicts what Drudge say USA Today is reporting in Florida.
They are just polling people, and of those who say they voted early, asked who they voted for.
These aren't actual results.
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