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Early voting show current turnout in Colorado isn’t quite as high as 2014 (GOP slightly ahead)
Denverite ^ | 10/25/18 | hernandez

Posted on 10/25/2018 1:40:55 PM PDT by Ravi

More than 360,000 ballots have already been returned in Colorado, but the numbers are lagging behind return numbers from the previous midterm election.

Figures released by the Secretary of State’s office on Thursday showed 367,927 ballots have already been returned for this year’s midterm election. But that’s roughly 150,000 fewer than the same turnout reported by the office four years ago.

The office reported on Oct. 24, 2014, that 518,610 ballots had already been returned. (A note: the reason for comparing different dates is that this year’s ballots started being mailed out on Oct. 15. But the first day that mail ballots may be mailed to voters changes depends on the election day that year. So they were first mailed out Oct. 14 in 2014.)

GOP voters are currently outpacing Dems, but only slightly. The party breakdown from Thursday’s numbers includes 129,008 ballots returned by Democrats, 131,230 by Republicans and 103,472 by unaffiliated voters. For comparison, in 2014, Democrats had returned 164,443 ballots, Republicans had returned 226,923 ballots and unaffiliated voters had returned 121,812 ballots.

Denver County voters have returned 30,696 ballots so far this year, with most of them from Democrats (17,206). Unaffiliated voters have returned 8,275 ballots, while Republicans have returned 4,851 ballots in Denver.

(Excerpt) Read more at denverite.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: 2018midterms; co2018; coffman; colorado; trump
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To: goldstategop

Colorado is gone.


21 posted on 10/25/2018 2:09:38 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Ravi

In Colorado early returns are MEANINGLESS this time around, since over HALF were received A WEEK LATE!!!


22 posted on 10/25/2018 2:19:52 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Ravi

Voting may not be high because Coloradans are high.


23 posted on 10/25/2018 2:23:22 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Ravi
The State has been going Democrat for at least a decade now. That seems likely to continue as far as I can see.

Democrats slightly outnumber Republicans, and "Independents" outnumber both parties.

(D=1,003,434/ R=995,090/ I=1,163,751) Source: Colorado Secretary of State, Active Voter Registrations)

The "Independents" tend to vote Democrat by slightly more than 50%.

Stapleton (R) has run a very quiet campaign that has done very little to fire up the Republicans or the Independents. I expect that Jared Polis (D) will be elected as the next Governor.

I do believe that all of the amendment proposals to increase taxes will fail.

24 posted on 10/25/2018 2:28:50 PM PDT by flamberge (It seemed like a good idea at the time)
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To: mad puppy

“Stapleton, was...well...less than inspirational”

Republicans in Colorado don’t seem serious about winning. I get @#$%$# lefty ‘activists’ coming to my door all the time but NO Republicans. Of course the conservatives are at work so there’s that.


25 posted on 10/25/2018 2:34:59 PM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: Ravi

There are many people in rural CO from places like New York, New Jersey, California, Washington, Nevada, Eastern Europe, Germany, Somalia, etc.


26 posted on 10/25/2018 2:35:00 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: goldstategop

“I expect Polis to win. I’m a Colorado conservative independent.”

Me too. Why would you vote for someone that changed their name? Seems like they’re trying to hide something.


27 posted on 10/25/2018 2:36:49 PM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: flamberge

“I do believe that all of the amendment proposals to increase taxes will fail. “

Every guy in my team at work voted ‘NO’.


28 posted on 10/25/2018 2:38:09 PM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: G Larry

I agree the numbers are small to draw any conclusions right now, but if I’m reading some other data correctly, Unaffiliated voters have been pretty 50/50 for Rs and Ds.


29 posted on 10/25/2018 2:39:16 PM PDT by 11th_VA ("When passions are most inflamed, fairness is most in jeopardy." - Susan Collins)
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To: ronbivtx

CO Total votes cast this year appear to be less than 2014 or 2016

30 posted on 10/25/2018 3:15:35 PM PDT by 11th_VA ("When passions are most inflamed, fairness is most in jeopardy." - Susan Collins)
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To: Ravi
My take on the low turn out..


31 posted on 10/25/2018 4:00:22 PM PDT by maddog55
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To: Ravi

There are 3 ballots in our house all filled out Republican, no on taxes and no on amendments. I think I will wait for election day to drop them off. I don’t know if there are St. Louis style activities going on in Colorado but I don’t want someone in a back room arranging to negate my vote ahead of time.


32 posted on 10/25/2018 4:35:33 PM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: 11th_VA
I'm not sure you can draw any conclusions regarding the allocation of Unaffiliated votes in this election.

I don't believe they tally the actual votes until election day.

The U's are the most likely to be swayed from one cycle to the next, and I'm not sure there's any merit in trying to guess how they'll line up across the state.

33 posted on 10/25/2018 8:43:48 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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