Posted on 10/27/2008 10:29:31 AM PDT by GOPinCa
Just heard on Rush Limbaugh program that early voting and mail in ballots in California of more then 200,000 cast show only a 1,000 advantage in party I.D. for Democrats. Again, this is CALIFORNIA.
Conclusion: Republicans are more likely to vote early than stupid, lazy, procrastinating Democrats many of whom need to be driven or dragged to the polls.
But are they skewed towards military ballots?
This means nothing unless we know what happened during early voting in 2004.
Wonder if this is what is showing up in the voting numbers now?
I’m in CA. I was going to vote by mail but didn’t get my stuff til way late this time so will be voting in person. FWIW, anecdotally, the push for early voting doesn’t seem particularly strong here.
I think this proves how meaningless these comparisons are, since CA will easily be carried by BHO.
it would be a billion to one to win that communist state.
it would be a billion to one to win that communist state.
Remember too that both Republicans AND Democrats voted in the Democrat primary for Hillary.
So just because someone is listed as a Democrat voter does not mean they are voting for the Democrat presidential candidate in the general election.
This is going to be a hell of a fight.
I was very impressed with someone this weekend. I’m in Colorado, and a younger guy came in all the way from California to volunteer at our McCain headquarters. He knew California wasn’t even worth it and that he should focus on a state that mattered instead...
But what if the dynamics totally change here? You never know.
Gee, I’d love to know how relevant this is compared to past early voting data in California, and nationwide.
Reagan did it twice, GHWBush did it once. The odds aren’t a billion to one.
Does anyone have a real source on this? I saw this on the weekend but couldn’t find a link to the SoS office, or to any other real source.
It seemed unsubstantiated. What’s our proof on this?
I would love to see Cali flip Red State again just to piss off the Dems, but it just ain’t gonna happen.
Correct, and this is actually bad news for the GOP. Even in the bluest parts of this blue state, absentee ballots tend to skew 60%+ GOP/conservative (with, of course, higher percentages in inland, conservative counties).
So “basically even” is much more Democratic than in past years.
CA tends to vote about 55% Dem to 45% GOP in national contests *overall*, but not in the *absentees*.
I live in The Peoples Republic of New Yawk and there’s a snowballs chance in hell. McCain would lose against Mao the people here a so brainwashed. Businesses were fleeing before Spitzer and Obama..... there’s just a large percentage of the NY population that doesn’t mind hurting a little more as long as they know the “rich” are as well.
“it would be a billion to one to win that communist state.”
Yes. It would almost be a miracle for McCain/Palin to take California.
..... see ya Nov. 5
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