Posted on 11/04/2014 7:52:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
There is one set of numbers in this breakdown of North Carolina early voting that really jumps out. This year 52.2% of early voters in North Carolina were age 60 or over. In 2012, that percentage was 35.5%. Young voters were scarce among early voters this election. In 2012, 13.2 percent of the early voters were ages 18-29. This year the percentage fell to 5.1%, while there was a drop from 21.8 to 13.7% in the age 30-44 age bracket.
We won't know what this all means until tonight, but I suspect that these numbers may be more significant than the fact that there was almost no shift in the Democrat edge in party affiliation and only a small shift down in blacks who voted early. In recent elections the senior vote has strongly favored Republicans. Note too that North Carolina Democrats have been splitting their tickets for decades, voting Democrat at the county level where the Democrat primary often determines who will be sheriff and the composition of the County Board of Commissioners. Then, in November, the same voters send Republicans to Washington, D.C. and increasingly to Raleigh.
I live in a county where the local government has been controlled by Democrats since the 1960s. The last time this county carried for a Democrat for President was 1996. The Charlotte- and Raleigh-area media would have people believing that Republican control of the North Carolina state legislature is wildly unpopular. It is so unpopular around here that no local Democrat filed to run against my not particularly charismatic Republican state senator.
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$100mil was spent on the NC race.
A lot of that was earmarked for fraudstering, no doubt.
In 2012, nationwide, persons 65 and older voted 56% to 44% for Romney. In North Carolina, those over 65 voted 64% to 35% for Romney.
The over 60 vote went overwhelmingly for Romney in 2012. If the age makeup of the electorate is much older and whiter than 2012, that is going to be better for Tillis.
More math!
I had to go to the courthouse and persuade the clerk that I had a valid reason, before they gave me an absentee ballot.
No good reason the military couldn’t all vote on the same day. If they cannot, they cannot.
Too much absentee voting going on, especially by college students. Way, way too many mail-in ballots.
Get to the polls on election day, or don’t.
Single day, like the Constitution dictates.
South Carolinian.
I noticed a good bit more older voters today in Fayetteville.
Damn facts.
Early balloting and the mutated election process we now have is to accomodate the television people for higher ratings...only.
Does this mean that Dems have the voting Dead out earlier than usual?
I voted in the tiny burg of Browns Summit, Guilford County, NC at 8:00 a.m. They told me that 245 people had voted. All the voters save one had grey or white hair. The parking lot was full, but they were moving people along in good order. There were several well-dressed, well-spoken gentlemen who were handing out nice cards with a listing of conservative candidates. Not just a slip of paper, a double-sided, multi-colored, glossy stock 6”x8” card.
Did the vast majority live on Cemetary Road?
This could be bad news for Hagan, unless the AARP has been pimping her
If Hagan loses decidedly, called at 7:30p,... it’s gonna be crazy. Rats will be jumping out of windows all over the country.
Or they will be stuffing extra ballots across the country in a desperate drive.
Same here. I was shocked at the line so early this morning. Most were over fifty. One elderly man turned to me as we exited the polling place and said, “republican?” Yes sir, I replied. To which he said, “Good.”
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