Posted on 10/24/2016 5:13:08 PM PDT by Innovative
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is touting some “eye-popping” advantages in early voting, in an apparent effort to energize Democratic voters, but preliminary figures suggest the race remains tighter than her aides acknowledge. The preliminary numbers appear to show Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, with an edge in several of the roughly 10 battleground states that will decide the 2016 White House race. “We're seeing eye-popping vote-by-mail application numbers,” Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said on “Fox News Sunday.”
In Arizona and North Carolina, for example, more registered Democrats than Republicans have indeed cast early ballots.
But such numbers are open to interpretation, including how many Democrats in those two states voted for Clinton.
Meanwhile, early data shows Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump with potential advantages of his own in battleground states Florida, Ohio and elsewhere.
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That could be evidence of a monster vote out there. Unaffiliated voters are way up in North Carolina compared to 2012.
Also, African-American and young voter turnout is down in North Carolina by a good margin.
At the early stages, it appears that Clinton is not able to reassemble the Obama coalition of minorities and young voters.
Have faith. Glad you already voted.
I hope all Trump voters are truly energized and will get out the vote. That is what matters, not these polls.
Perhaps the question should be: How many of the Dem ballots are legit? We all know they’re counting on votes from dead people, dogs, people registered to vote in multiple states, felons and illegal immigrants to put Hillary over the top.
Democrats do early vote WAYY more in NC than Republicans. Democrats got ~70% of their votes from early votes vs ~50% of Republicans in 2012.
It is early voting. Democrats often tend to vote early in higher numbers. Republicans tend to vote in greater numbers on election day itself. These trends are beginning to even up over time, but not entirely yet.
It isn’t who votes when...it’s what the total is at the end.
Indies are really 50% Trump voters that used to be R. That’s why fewer R ballots are returning.
10% of Dems will vote Trump. That’s a Bradley effect if if you will.
And 75% of indies will vote Trump. That’s the monster vote.
And 98% of R will vote Trump. That’s enthusiasm.
The polls are still acting like this is a normal election.
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAA
No way Hillary is going to win NC!!!
Loser Mitt won NC from Obama!!!!!
Me and the wife are Independents. Used to be Republican, but still vote conservative.
I live in Mississippi and we vote the old fashioned way, on election day. Are this early vote talk is terrible IMO, calling races etc. Really doing selected viewing now, cutting off cable news watching more Netflix etc.
I agree. I believe Trump easily takes NC.
I’d heard that my grandfather is voting for
Hillary.
I’d like to talk him out of it but he
died in 1997
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North Carolina Voter Registration Stats Oct. 22, 2016 Democrats Republicans Libertarians Unaffiliated 2,705,699 2,060,227 31,358 2,038,536
Does any one have a sense of which battleground states are systemically most vulnerable to voter fraud? As an example, here in Florida we have early and absentee voting, but we also have voter I.D., and we use paper ballots which are counted electronically, but are retained in case of recount (i.e. we have a paper trail).
It will be interesting to follow the early voting statistics in both North Carolina and Florida. I have a suspicion that we will have a good idea of who won the state even before November 8th, just based on the composition of the electorate and whether most of the electorate voted early.
Well, they saw a rigged nomination process.
People should realize many former Republicans have renounced their affiliation to the party and now are independent, thus Republican numbers down slightly but independent number are up significantly.
Everyone knows that by next week the polls will show a very close race. The poll scam will have to face reality. Those that don’t will prove irrelevant. The polls always tighten at the end and the end is nigh.
Gonna be a long 2 weeks folks. Get your friends and family out to vote. I don’t two more Trump voters than we had yesterday
Is this a one off “honest” story about the election or the beginning of a crack in the dam?
Federal Courts struck down North Carolina’s attempt at
Voter ID back in the summer.
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