No he didn’t. We will prevail. He’s a schmuck for doing this, but we needn’t get so hung up on these things when more pressing criminal matters need to be clamoured over in places like Pennsylvania and Ohio...and Virginia, and Missouri, and......phew!
What the eff??
Translation:
McCain has no grassroots Get Out The Vote network.
Right?
He’s still got a week to promote a positive, proactive campaign. “The Maverick” theme was demolished on his bailout conduct.
Could Ben Smith be any bigger a whore for Democrats?
I find your finding to be crap. If you are eligible to vote, then vote. If they get more votes they win. If you can’t win, you can’t.
Democracy is about giving everyone a chance to vote once.
First I’d like to specifially understand why this is bad? Could it be that Crist has inside info that this would help Republican voters?
I’m missing the logic here. How does extending early voting for Floridians give Florida to Obama? I haven’t really seen any data that shows early voting is helping one party more than the other. What am I missing?
Hmmm - not sure it hurts that bad, if at all. He opened the centers later. Now people with jobs will find early voting more convenient. People with jobs will not support Obama.
Ok, since Republican voters typical HAVE JOBS and need the extra time at the end of the day to vote, WHY IS THIS BAD?
Sorry, I don’t see how this is going to help the Dems. Early voting is generally much more orderly, much better scrutinized (Florida is a photo ID state), and the people where I voted early, judging by their bumper stickers, were overwhelmingly GOP.
I think this is going to prevent a lot of shenanigans on Election Day, if only because the crowds will be smaller. If the GOP wants to blame anybody, they should blame their local orgs, who have dropped the ball on getting poll watchers and poll workers.
I’m going to be a poll watcher at early voting tomorrow, and I noticed that all of the busy (evening) hours were already taken by Dems. Apparently there’s only one poll-watcher on per shift, not one from each party. As for Election Day, I signed up and they didn’t call me (and others) in time to get my name approved by the Board of Elections. The state GOP organization stinks, and most of the county orgs aren’t very good, either!
for those who want to call crist — Executive Office of the Governor Switchboard: (850) 488-7146 office open 8AM-5PM ET
here is little charlie’s email:
http://www.flgov.com/contact_form
RINO Crist. Why would anyone expect better?
The felon thing I disagree with. Early voting goes on for days. Keeping longer hours is not that big a deal to me.
If FL goes Obama because of this, that means the people of FL wanted to vote Obama. The Dims despite this always claim the GOP tries to suppress votes. We don’t. We shouldn’t. And so this should not be a big deal.
Wait-a-sec. Extending early voting hours should help the GOP. Remember, Republicans are more likely to have jobs. It’s harder to get to the polls during the day for people gainfully employed and if there’s a line, it’s that much harder. By extending the early and late hours, more job holding, taxpaying, wealth creating individuals will be able to vote early. That should mean more GOP votes.
Yes, but my rather dim Gov. has a nice tan and a pretty smile.
Just like the prom queen he is.
Oh for Pete’s sake. All indiciations are that Obama isn’t even doing as well in early voting as Kerry did four years ago. There have been other FR threads about this very topic.
How many more people will vote early if you extend the hours from 8 to 12, how many of them are Democrats rather than Republicans, and how many of them will vote one way or the other anyway? Please provide real numbers, and further please explain how the demographics in Florida have changed so radically from 2006 or 2004 that this is going to make a dime’s bit of difference in the final results.
Republicans should WELCOME early voting. The bigger the turnout, the better they do in Presidential elections. The more convenient you make voting, the more Republicans will vote. Again, I speak from Texas, where we have had early voting for years and where Democrats go to die in Presidential and statewide elections.
Extended voting hours doesn’t bother me, but if they start serving free malt liquor I’m gonna really be PO’d.