Posted on 11/06/2012 6:53:26 AM PST by rlbedfor
Mitt Romney already has 697,143 votes before the polls opened a couple of hours ago, while Barack Obama only has 605,546, a difference of almost 92,000 votes. The data is time-stamped at 2:03 ET this morning, and the link on the front page of the site reads, “Early voters: How Ohio has voted.”
A few counties have not yet reported any early-voting results, but one county in particular looks huge. Cuyahoga, which includes Cleveland, should be a Democratic stronghold, and perhaps the one area where Democratic early-voting efforts should have produced their biggest lead. Instead, Romney has a lead of about 14,000 votes already, 127,570 to 113,373. In Hamilton County, where Cincinnati itself is located, Romney leads by over 5,000, 29,969 to 24,808. A quick scan of the data shows Romney leading in every county with more than 25,000 EVs.
This may be a very big deal, if these numbers are correct.
My parents did that in the 60’s and 70’s. Registered (D) so they could vote for the weakest candidates in the primaries........
I’m not buying that it is “dummy data”. They are saying that because it shows Romney winning in a spot where Obama should be.
I bet the data is real and the Obama campaign leaned on them to take it down and cite it as fake.
“And also remember that just tells them how many votes need to be made up.”
They can only cheat so much. I think it would be pretty hard to cheat > 1% in any state.
Hi Tony. Thanks for the info about the bad data.
My concern is that this is a Cincinnati Enquirer (cincinnati.com) link that appears to be an active link to that newspaper.
It says it is
Ohio presidential vote by counties
2:03 AM, Nov 6, 2012 | Comments
Moreover, it even includes comments on the article at:
Cincy Enquirer is one of my everyday go-to websites since I live fairly close to Cincy, so this is their website and it is one of their articles. If you haven’t looked at it, then go check it out.
No, it's dummy data - no votes have been counted in Ohio so far, none. The counting will not begin until the polls close tonight.
Sometimes, the media just screws up. :)
Or it could have been dummy data that was inadvertently posted. The state of Ohio hasn’t released these stats so there’s no conspiracy. It was a mistake.
Please remember folks - Democrats will lead voting until Republicans and Independens get off work today!
I would *love* if that article was true, but it is not, and the Enquirer should take it down. Again, there have been no votes counted in Ohio yet - they will not be counted until the polls close at 7:30. The data is fake.
I could be mistaken, but I believe they did start tallying the early votes after the early polls closed yesterday. I believe that was part of the basis of the lawsuit to not have early voting over the weekend, was to have the weekend to count.
So I think they are not to release the totals until the polls close, but they are likely being counted all ready.
Why isn’t the admin pulling this thread!!
True - but Stephanie Cutter on her teleconf last night was urging the sheep not to get upset if the news early in the day was bad
They have known this was over since back at the convention ... we normally think of 'games' as someone wins, someone loses ... but remember that even if you've accepted the presidential loss, in this game, you still take as much as you can get (house and senate elections and other.)
GOTV for dems at this point is "well, we know we lost the pres, but we are not going to tell you, because we still want you to show up and vote, because there are a hell of a lot of other elections that matter and even though you don't know their names, we know that like good sheep you will vote all D."
“The data in the article was a test, as Gannett itself has printed.”
So, I wouldn’t put it past the Rat press to put up test data that shows Romney up, and then put out some real data later showing - shock - he’s down in early vote counts (we all knew this, only down much less than McCain...and I wouldn’t put it past a few people there at that paper to have done this to get all the R operatives in a spin (which they kind of have) - as a either a practical joke, or a way of trying to affect the crucial OH in person vote....
I wouldn’t put it past ‘em. Just sayin’...
“GOTV for dems at this point is “well, we know we lost the pres, but we are not going to tell you, because we still want you to show up and vote, because there are a hell of a lot of other elections that matter and even though you don’t know their names, we know that like good sheep you will vote all D.”
Bingo. Spot on. And the Rat media is completely on board with this, to mitigate any sort of wave this election may create toward Constitutional freedom (toward the GOP).
“It was a mistake.” - or perhaps they wanted to spin all of us types into a tizzy, (by releasing just this sort of ‘test’ data) and maybe affect the race in OH, by showing Romney up now (by ‘accident’), and then ‘down’ in the exit polling - thereby impacting the state. I wouldn’t put it past ‘em. And so the mind works, when you’re dealing with a corrupted media that’s 75%+ Democrat outside and 90%+ Rat inside the beltway...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2955716/posts?page=92#92
I saw the page before Gannett pulled it, and I didn’t believe it. It had Romney winning in Cleveland by about 12,000 votes.
I really, really hope Butler and Warren and Clermont counties hold their votes back until Hamilton and Cuyuga (sp?) counties reveal theirs. These have the huge Dem and welfare rolls and of course do not get to the polls until late morning, early afternoon or late after naps and when the 0bama bus picks them up to take them to the polls or a different precinct with a prov ballot so they can vote > once.
Thanks :)
Seemed a tad odd...but then again- it’s Election Day in America..anything is possible:)
Of course rats will have an early lead, republicans are at work.
No. This simply isn’t true. We’re about 6% behind from total EV and that’s fantastic. We can make that up in three counties.
JoeDet - Hamilton County is about 50/50 because of the city. The surrounding counties (Clermont, Butler and Warren) are SOLID Republican.
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