Voted on the first day of early voting in my state. A red county in a red state, record turnout for first day. Looked like a conservative crowd
S Forks mentioned Larry aka LA on Fox last night. Said he trusted Larry’s number crunching the most.
Is LS still pro Sessions, or has he finally realized Q was wrong in saying “Trust Sessions”?
Good job on your number crunching. If I had the time to contribute to the GA number crunching I would. We have absentee numbers in GA, though, that DOUBLE 2016’S.
“Election officials received 17,436 absentee ballots through Tuesday, according to numbers from the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office. Four years ago, 8,819 ballots had been recorded at this point in the election cycle.”
Bump.
Anyone watch Lou Dobbs this evening? At the end of Lou’s interview with political consultant Ed Rollins, Rollins made a comment that the GOP had a strong chance of retaining control of the Senate but the Dems were going to win the House.
I don’t know if Rollins was guessing or if he was basing this on “insider” information.
Thank you for sharing!
Ed Rollings quit on the House tonight.
That was painful to read but delightful to take in.
Hey ! Good news! :)
“would it not be safe to assume that they were all voting on issues rated to Justice K? I think so.”
If not ‘safe’, certainly intelligent.
Still, I think Trump has support that isn’t captured in polls because of it’s novelty. The ‘likely voter’ is more Republican than pollsters assume (and that assumption is all-important).
No way to differentiate of course. The result would be the same either way. Here’s hoping!
Larry really knows how to make a guy feel good.
Can somebody give a quick rundown/summary of his conclusions? If so, thanks. I’m not big on scrolling through a string of tweets.
God bless LS. He’s is a great resource.
Using Threadreader per HalfIrish’s suggestion:
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1) Just so you all understand what I do, for the one-millionth time, I don’t do polls.
Yes, from time to time I will post one for those of you who do. But we’re WAY past polls now because we have actual NUMBERS.
2) A poll is a sample of opinions that cost nothing to give.
3) For example, before a horse race you can poll everyone-—including jockeys (who may or may not know something), owners, bettors, whomever. But it’s just an opinion.
Moreover, you have to know that in a political poll you have the correct sample (most absolutely do not).
4) The sample anymore is almost impossible to get, and certainly you cannot get it by phone only and you cannot get it by “self-reporting.” So far, only @PPDNews and Trafalgar have a track record of really getting “likely” voters in the proper sample sizes.
5) I don’t do polls.
6) I examine ballot REQUESTS and ballot RETURNS BY PARTY. (In 2016, party ID was the single best predictor of a vote according to Pew-—very, very few party switchers, but those that were, by 2:1, went from Dem to Republican.
7) But then you need to compare the current numbers to something. The rule of thumb is you never compare a mid-term with a presidential election because the turnout for the latter is supposed to be so much higher.
Guess what I did?
I compared it anyway, just out of intuition.
8) So, in four sample states where we are already seeing large #s of ballot requests-—AZ, FL, OH, and IA-—and which have very different voting patterns, I have found that so far (and anything can change-—but usually the patterns hold) the Republicans are exceeding their #s
8) contd . . . from 2016, a Presidential Election. This is not supposed to happen.
9) Moreover, with the help of Freepers “Ravi” and “SpeedyInTexas” and “Ohio Wan” and “The Accountant” and others, I have found that DemoKKKrats are falling behind their 2016 performance
10) One would not be surprised that Ds are lagging behind 2016, a presidential election year. But it IS surprising that Rs are not only running ahead of 2014 (a midterm) but also 2016.
11) Just in case there was some weird state-wide tilt to these numbers, we also . . . .
11) contd . . . looked at four key FL counties, Hillsborough, Miami-Dade, Lee, and Broward, and in all four counties (!!) even the blue ones, Ds are underperforming 2016 and Rs are overperforming.
12) Same is true in IA absentees. Ds always lead in total absentees in IA.
12) contd. But again, they are behind the 2016 election-—and in 2016 Ds had fallen behind their 2012 #s in IA! But Rs are up from 2016.
13) So we looked at a key IA district that no one is watching, IA2 that everyone just assumed the D incumbent will win. And lo and behold . .
13) contd. . .Same pattern. Rs are up 7% in this district, D is down 2.6%. This is over 5,000 votes shifted already (plus Is are way down, indicating people are “picking sides”).
In a district where the D won by 28,000, and where Ds ALWAYS lead in absentees, to be already down
13) contd . . . 5,000 votes before absentee voting is even over, and before the big guns that Rs bring on election day, well, if I was that D I’d be worried.
14) We did something different in Montgomery Co., OH—a key bellwether county. In 2016 “The Accountant” figured out
14) contd . . . how to allocate the “indies” by looking at a 20 year voting history of their addresses. It proved uncanny in its accuracy. We correctly projected Trump to win a county no R had won in 20 years.
15) That same county’s absentees are coming in, we can count them .
16) And those absentees, so far, are showing EXACTLY the same pattern as 2016 with, once again, the Rs performing a little better this time around.
17) There are similar #s coming in for absentees in AZ, where the Republicans are out to a 7% lead, despite having only . . .
17) contd. . . a registration advantage of about 140,000. Once again, a pattern. Rs overperforming, Ds underperforming.
18) Then finally you have to take into account voter registration and voter registration trends, where in 8/10 battleground states since 2016 Rs have made
net gains. They don’t always lead in registration (as in FL, for example, where they trail) but trends are important. They tell you which way the #s are going.
19) In OH, after doing the “indie” voter math, the Rs have a solid registration lead of 300,000 after all but 2k indies
19) contd . . . are accounted for.
WHERE DO YOU THINK THIS SHOWS UP WITH “POLLSTERS?” It won’t. None of them did this work.
20) So, before you send me “What about this guy?” or “What about this poll?” I don’t know and I don’t care. Unless someone is getting different math than me on absentee request #S and absentee return #s it’s irrelevant.
21) They are asking people in the stands asking their opinion of who will win.
I’m at each turn, giving you photographic evidence of where the horses are.
Now, that STILL doesn’t mean I’m always right. Horses fall. Some horses really come on at the end.
But . . .
22) here is another reality the “pollsters” and pundits either miss or flat out ignore:
LARGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY VOTED. We just haven’t counted them yet, but we can know if they were Ds or Rs!!
23) In FL for example some 400,000 absentee ballots went out. So all the campaigning from here on out, and anything that happens that might change a vote . . .
WON’T CHANGE THOSE VOTES.
24) And what do you think is the single biggest issue motivating people in the last 3 weeks?
24) If you said Justice Kavanaugh, you’d be right. Not jobs, not health care, not immigration. That event was the most “motivating” voter event of the last 10 years.
25) So let me now ask you this: if 5,000 more Iowans in a single district requested absentee ballots at this time
25) contd and they were all Republicans, what do you think they’d be voting on?
26) And let me put it this way: if 50,000 (or whatever the number) of FL ballots have already been RETURNED, what was the biggest issue when those people were in the middle of voting?
27) And since we know that the Republicans have about a 7% lead in those RETURNED ballots, would it not be safe to assume that they were all voting on issues rated to Justice K? I think so.
28) Those are touchdowns already scored. Can’t take them off the board.
29) So now in all these areas I’ve mentioned, the Ds have LESS TIME and a much smaller voter pool from which to now recover that 7% lead, or those 5,000 IA votes.
See how this works?
30) Finally, my assumption—could be wrong-—is that a river carries all boats the same way.
31) I have asked a historical genius on this kind of data, “Can you think of ANY time in American electoral history where one party gained four to six senate seats and lost the House.” None.
32) Therefore, when I see data-—not polls, but ballots-—ALL going the same way
32) contd . . . they I don’t care what polls or “experts” say. The voters are
SAYING SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
And this was exactly how I knew Trump would win very early in the 2016 election.
The VOTES were talking.
LS has written it up and put it out. Good for him for doing that. Soon we’ll see how well this data worked as a predictive agent. I hope we get updates and I hope he’s right as his data is more optimistic than I am.
Courtesy Ping. LS crediting you . . .
I believe LS he REALLY does the work on this AND he was the ONLY person who was correct about Trump winning in 2016!!!!! He is right about the polls, DONT PAY ATTENTION TO POLLS, even the exit polls on election night WERE WRONG, people are not being honest with pollsters for whatever reasons, they probably are afraid of being thought of as racist or whatever!!! I FIRMLY BELIEVE the American people LOVE this POTUS and will walk over broken glass to give this POTUS what he needs to DRAIN THIS SWAMP!!! Have faith in LS he is keeping track of FACTS not answers on a phone!!!!