Fox News: Democrats Leading in Early Voting Ballots.
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With just five days before Americans go to the polls to choose the next president, an estimated 19 million of them have already cast early ballots, with Democrats and Republicans trying to leverage the numbers into a closing argument that says their candidates have the early advantage.
President Obama and Mitt Romney have urged potential voters at essentially every campaign rally in the closing weeks to vote early.
"Get out there and vote," Mitt Romney said Monday. “We need you. It sends a very strong message. … Your vote counts just as much if it’s cast on Election Day as if it’s cast early.”
Romney also pointed out that early votes carry a lot of weight for campaigns because the news media “looks at your zip code and where you live and makes an estimate of whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat, and they decide whether we’re ahead or we’re falling behind.”
Though trackers cannot tell whether the voters picked either Obama or Romney, a handful of states in which voters register by party can report the number of Democrats or Republicans who have voted.
Democrats appear to have a slight edge in several of the critical battleground states, according to the estimates – leading in six of seven key battleground states: Florida, Iowa, Nevada, North Carolina and Ohio.
Republicans lead in Colorado, based on information from state elections agencies, the Associated Press and the United States Elections Project at George Mason University.
"Early voting is an important tool in the fight to increase voting among the base," said Tyler Harber, Republican strategist and partner of Harcom strategies. "The goal is to run up the numbers with groups that are definitely going to cast a ballot for you. Both parties spend millions on registration and early voting because it matters. Reporting early voting success, or failure, is certainly a way to energize your base. But such reporting has limited effect on the all-important undecided and unaffiliated voter."
President Obama voted early, casting his ballot last week, part of an effort to encourage others to do likewise.
“For all of you who have not yet voted early, I just want everybody to see what an incredibly efficient process this was," he said, after becoming the first U.S. president to vote early.
Campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki thinks Obama is leading Romney so far and that the president is ahead of where he was in 2008.
“This is a major part of our on-the-ground program and focus, and we hope that having the president do this today will send a message to people across the country, in states where early vote is an option, that this is something they should do, too," Psaki said after the president voted.
Gallup estimates most of the mail-in and in-person ballots are from seniors and Western states.
The Washington-based polling firm also reports the estimated 19.4 million early voters is equal to roughly 15 percent of registered voters, and that early voting has increased over the past few weeks.
The percentage of those who have voted or planned to vote was at 33 percent Sunday, compared to 25 percent in the three prior weeks, Gallup reports.
Superstorm Sandy suspended early voting in Maryland and the District of Columbia. However, little impact is expected considering both will likely vote for Obama and resumed the process Wednesday.
The deadline for early voting in Maryland was Thursday, but Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley extended the program until Friday. The District has extended early voting hours until the deadline Saturday.
Virginia Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell has extended absentee voting through Saturday.
Colorado:
Votes: 1.1 million
Democrats: 35 percent
Republicans: 38 percent
Florida
Votes: 2.7 million
Democrats: 43 percent
Republicans: 41 percent
Iowa
Votes: 532,000
Democrats: 44 percent
Republicans: 32 percent
Nevada
Votes: 533,000
Democrats: 44 percent
Republicans: 38 percent
North Carolina
Votes: 1.9 million
Democrats: 49 percent
Republicans: 32 percent
Ohio
Votes: 1.3 million
Democrats: 30 percent
Republicans: 24 percent[/quote]
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Most of the fox news articles are posted in abridged forms on Fox Nation, their comment site.
Not the case with this article :v:.
Mitt Romney, pls go.
Good start.
fox news what are you doing stahp.
at this rate we might have to start taking you seriously.
Woo! Good to see swing states going Democratic. Falls in line with 538's numbers.
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;38280172]Woo! Good to see swing states going Democratic. Falls in line with 538's numbers.[/QUOTE]
the polling in swing states has favored Obama since well, basically the entire race. he didn't even lose the lead there when Romney started climbing in the national polls
[QUOTE=Lazor;38280255]the polling in swing states has favored Obama since well, basically the entire race. he didn't even lose the lead there when Romney started climbing in the national polls[/QUOTE]Yeah, but this is actual voting, not just third-party polls.
This is how I will feel if the respective candidate wins:
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[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;38280313]Yeah, but this is actual voting, not just third-party polls.[/QUOTE]
i mean don't get me wrong i'm psyched about the early voting numbers too. Obama's ground game has got to be worth a couple points, it's absolutely unmatched
Whatever you do don't read any comments on Yahoo articles about this, I made that mistake just before and good god how do some people muster the brain power to breathe.
I doubt NC will come out as an Obama win though, so many people here hate him for no real reason.
There are a lot of signs that say "Fire Obama" in peoples yards, I really just want to print out some signs that say "Water Obama", "Earth Obama", etc. and stick them beside them.
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[QUOTE=imptastick;38280601]I doubt NC will come out as an Obama win though, so many people here hate him for no real reason.
There are a lot of signs that say "Fire Obama" in peoples yards, I really just want to print out some signs that say "Water Obama", "Earth Obama", etc. and stick them beside them.
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campaign signs aren't really good indicators of popularity, but the polling in that state does favor Romney. Silver gives him an 80% chance of winning the state, but it's not really an important one.
[QUOTE=Lazor;38280703]campaign signs aren't really good indicators of popularity, but the polling in that state does favor Romney. Silver gives him an 80% chance of winning the state, but it's not really an important one.[/QUOTE]
I more making the judgment based on what people are saying, a lot of Obama hate on facebook and from people talking around campus.
[QUOTE=imptastick;38280733]I more making the judgment based on what people are saying, a lot of Obama hate on facebook and from people talking around campus.[/QUOTE]
Funny, I live in the same state and it's the opposite here, I've heard plenty of people, young and old alike, saying they're voting Obama but not a single one saying they're voting for Romney. This is despite the [I]numerous[/I] Republican political ads that basically consist of "*insert story of heroic person here* For America" without even bothering to say any of their stances or their party or anything besides feel-good.
[QUOTE=rinoaff33;38280756]Funny, I live in the same state and it's the opposite here, I've heard plenty of people, young and old alike, saying they're voting Obama but not a single one saying they're voting for Romney.[/QUOTE]
Well I am currently in a small town in the Piedmont, what area are you in? I know my home town (Asheville) was much more liberal.
[QUOTE=imptastick;38280769]Well I am currently in a small town in the Piedmont, what area are you in? I know my home town (Asheville) was much more liberal.[/QUOTE]
A small town in the Piedmont :v:
even a solid blue/red state has significant amounts of the population that go the other way. If I, living in Atlanta, based my feelings on Obama's chances in Georgia on the sentiment i heard in this great city, i would be predicting an Obama landslide here.
[QUOTE=rinoaff33;38280774]A small town in the Piedmont :v:[/QUOTE]
Weird, I am in Salisbury and most the people in my dorm dislike him.
[QUOTE=imptastick;38280601]I doubt NC will come out as an Obama win though, so many people here hate him for no real reason.
There are a lot of signs that say "Fire Obama" in peoples yards, I really just want to print out some signs that say "Water Obama", "Earth Obama", etc. and stick them beside them.[/QUOTE] Water Obama sounds like a gardening tip.
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;38280817]Water Obama sounds like a gardening tip.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=imptastick;38280601]I doubt NC will come out as an Obama win though, so many people here hate him for no real reason.
There are a lot of signs that say "Fire Obama" in peoples yards, I really just want to print out some signs that say "Water Obama", "Earth Obama", etc. and stick them beside them.
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Even some of my conservative friends are voting obama.
[QUOTE=The Worm;38281532]Even some of my conservative friends are voting obama.[/QUOTE]
A lot of "True Conservatives" see that Romney is not really standing for what they believe.
Funny, I was just watching CNN and they had GOP in the lead
CNN has been leaning way right since last year. Course they would.
[QUOTE=SomeDumbShit;38280576]Whatever you do don't read any comments on Yahoo articles about this, I made that mistake just before and good god how do some people muster the brain power to breathe.[/QUOTE]
On a scale of Fox News to Stormfront, where does Yahoo rank?
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I'm guessing around Fox Nation to Freedom Outpost, right?
[QUOTE=imptastick;38281595]A lot of "True Conservatives" see that Romney is not really standing for what they believe.[/QUOTE]
Case in point a "republican" friend on mine is voting obama because she feels that lately republicans have lost their ever loving minds and how obvious of a massive lair Romney is, and how she can't really support such a politician. Though she does see herself as more of a classical conservative, in the sense that she probably leans more towards libertarian.
[QUOTE=The Worm;38281532]Even some of my conservative friends are voting obama.[/QUOTE]
That's because Obama is conservative
[QUOTE=Trogdon;38282455]That's because Obama is conservative[/QUOTE]
i don't really understand this allegation
he's not conservative, he's just a little bit jimmy carter. came in as an idealist and got spat on and had to harden the fuck up, ere the retainment of guantanamo bay (albeit a significant increase in prosecutions and extraditions!) and the surge in afghanistan.
where do these allegations come from? what policies has obama pushed forward that are conservative? he's made efforts to decrease defense spending, increase tax revenue, support social programs, and he's got a completely keynesian perspective on the economy. he's pretty liberal.
a lot of people seem to be equating that foreign policy = partisan. it's not anywhere near as partisan as you think, it actually maintains its own trend across administrations because it's inefficient to gut the entire state department and change direction on the change of party.
[QUOTE=BrickInHead;38282665]:words:[/QUOTE]
It comes from Europe. To America, he's the Liberal, but to European politics, he's a Conservative. We have no equivalent to the European Left (beyond third party fringe groups).
In other words, we have the right wing party, and the even further right wing party.
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