Posted on 09/11/2020 11:12:32 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Democrats have begun running up a lopsided advantage in early voting as well as absentee ballot requests, in an election what has seen an unprecedented split on voting strategy and furious attacks by the president on mail-voting.
The advantage is pronounced in the battleground states that will decide the election, and that are attracting candidate visits and a TV air war.
The differential in absentee ballot requests has hit three-to-one in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, two states that President Donald Trump won in 2016 that Joe Biden is hoping to strip back.
The advantage in the Keystone state has extended to ballot requests by people who didn't vote in 2016. A total of 175,000 Democrats who skipped 2016 have asked for ballots, more than double the number of Republicans, Politico reported.
The Democratic lead in ballot requests in Florida – a state Trump carried where Biden is making a run and holding a slight lead in the polls – is 700,000.
A similar dynamic is playing out in Ohio, a state Trump carried that lies just outside the 'blue wall' of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania that Democrats are focused on.
The Democratic advantage has carried over to key counties in Ohio, Statehouse News reported.
In strongly Republican Warren County, Republicans and Democrats are running about even in ballot requests. But Republicans accounted for three times as many requests four years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Well noob this is a pointless post
Agreed. Us Republicans aren’t willing to take a chance with our vote not counting so we’re going to the polls in person.
The strategies are going to come back and bite someone and we can’t be certain who.
More mail in votes get disqualified which creates danger for the democrats who are voting big by mail because that’s what their party told them they need to do.
Republicans are going to show up and vote in person which is great because those votes usually count. However, if we have an event like major storms on election day that could suppress in person voting.
I would also caution people that we continue to see polls showing Biden leads in some important States.
This is going to be an election in which trump supporters get out there and vote but we are also going to see a lot of democrats vote who did not like Hillary Clinton and stayed home last time.
Even before we discuss democrats cheating this election is far from in the bag for us.
Burned the mail-in ballot and the post card telling us how great it was to vote that way.
I wonder if the surge in non-2019 voters is planned vote harvesting.
Nah - They wouldn’t do that, would they? /sarc
Don’t think so.
You are mistaken republicans requested more mail in and absentee ballots in Florida last time this time democrats outnumber them by something like 6 or 700000.
How is it known what the party affiliation is of someone requesting a ballot?
This sounds like absentee ballot requests, not mail in ballots. The difference in numbers may just be the number of dims scared away from physically going to the polls.
It’s the Daily Mail. They’re a liberal news site.
Dumb question:
Suppose Biden strokes out completely and has to be replaced as the dem candidate. Just for grins we’ll call this new candidate “K”.
Would a mail-in vote for Biden count for “K”?
Why?
The difference in numbers may just be the number of dims scared away from physically going to the polls.”
The fact that this is true for multiple states makes me think you might be right. There have been many stories that indicate the rats will outnumber us in the mail voting by a lot which is consistent with this story. We need to vote in person, period.
l8r
Biden promised no campaign commercials today (9/11). They are all over satellite TV here in AZ. Promises made. Promises NOT kept. Biden (D)
Ok so obviously we are talking about registered R or D’s versus a non declared requesting a ballots.
I enjoy going to the polls too.
I vote as early as I can and as often as I can.
I took my son when he was 6 to the polling booths to impress upon him the importance of voting.
He is more of a hard core conservative than I am now. Chides me for subscribing to Netflix and ordering from Amazon. I know,..... I’m weak.
From the Daily Mail UK:
HOW THE STATES LINE UP
PENNSYLVANIA
Trump margin of victory: 44,000
Democratic lead in ballot requests from 2016 non-voters: Nearly 100,000
MICHIGAN
Margin of victory: 10,704
Democratic lead: 20,000
WISCONSIN
Margin of victory: 22,000
Democratic lead: 10,000
FLORIDA
Margin of victory: 112,911
Democratic lead in mail-in ballot requests: 700,000
GEORGIA
Margin of victory: 211,142
Republican lead in mail-in ballot requests: 211,141
Okay, who’s the guy in Georgia that didn’t?.................
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