Posted on 11/07/2008 10:03:13 AM PST by gotribe
Despite a record number of registered voters this year, intense interest in the presidential election and the historic outcome, Ohio's voter turnout was lower Tuesday than in 2004, unofficial statistics show.
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is reporting 67 percent turnout, compared with 72 percent in 2004. She had been predicting 80 percent turnout this time.
The percentage could increase as provisional ballots, overseas ballots and other outstanding votes are included during the official canvass in the coming weeks.
But overall turnout still is expected to be lower than in 2004, leaving experts at a loss to explain it -- especially because the number of registered voters increased by 319,000 from four years ago.
"That's rather puzzling, given the activity level," said Paul Beck, a political-science professor at Ohio State University.
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From the article:
“Another interesting result is that the counties with the largest increase in turnout from four years ago — Butler, Delaware and Warren — are solid Republican or GOP-leaning counties.”
A perplexed political science professor - what are the odds?
Where were all those young people who were gonna show up?................
You seem to have the answer. Help a fellow freeper.
I certainly want a concrete answer to this. I would not be surprised if some Republican ballots got “lost” and are found too late or not at all.
Don’t get me wrong. McDole was not the best guy to run and that has something to do with it but dang, let’s get the “books balanced” on the votes.
Maybe because President Bush and the Iraq War were more popular than the media ever gave credit for.
I'd have to agree with that statement. Many conservatives were willing to take a chance on four years of Obama to get a conservative president. Don't agree with it...but it did happen.
Of course no republicans (the dumb faction in the corrupt"Two-Party Cartel")will oppose this fraud.
No Christian right. The politically active ones voted McCain but they didn’t bring their friends.
My father died in 2007, I wondered if he voted in North Carolina on Tuesday.
“I’ve been saying all along...the problem with absentee voting is ‘chucking’ registered republican ballots.”
It’s not exactly a secret ballot, is it?
I voted absentee for the first time in 30 years because I needed to be out of town unexpectedly, and I of course had to put my name and address on the envelope.
I know people who reside out of state part of the year and are registered Republicans who have requested but not received their absentee ballots in time to return them and be counted—or not received them at all, or not received them without repeated calls to the town clerk.
Why does the GOP insist on absentee voting? Get yourself to the polls people. Of course, that isn’t failsafe, but I despise the prevalence of early and absentee voting.
My county in Ohio had a 75.5% turnout.
We had record turnout in Missouri, which may be the only “battleground” state that goes for McCain.
Conservatives were motivated to vote against Obama here. Only 3-5 counties went for Obama in the state, as far as I can tell.
I think we need a better class of "experts".
Of course fake registered voters generally tend not to show up and vote. The ACORN scumbags walking around getting paid to manufacture registrations create the illusion of more registered voters on paper, but it doesn’t translate into real voters.
Just my theory. I’m sure I’m at least partly right.
hmmmm
I think McCain did not have the GOTV ability and Obama won and did not need to use the fake votes.
LOL!
We did not get beat by an extraordinary registration or voter turnout effort on the democratic side. We got beat because we lost a significant number of voters who were with us in 2004. Ultimately, I don’t think organization, the fundraising disadvantage, or even the biased media cost us this election. What cost the election is the failure to present a compelling case on the important issues of the day.
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