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Old 10-30-2008, 07:36 PM
 
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How Early Voting Could Cost McCain Florida - TIME


[quote] a WSVN-Suffolk University poll has Barack Obama leading John McCain by a 60% to 40% margin among early voters. [quote]
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Old 10-30-2008, 07:53 PM
 
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Battle for Florida: Blacks turn out in droves, but few young people have voted -- OrlandoSentinel.com (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/orl-earlyvote3008oct30,0,5283353.story - broken link)

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Blacks turn out in droves, but few young people have voted
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Old 10-30-2008, 08:01 PM
 
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Battle for Florida: Blacks turn out in droves, but few young people have voted -- OrlandoSentinel.com (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/orl-earlyvote3008oct30,0,5283353.story - broken link)

Even if blacks voted in lower numbers, Obama's lead would still be around 15 points.

Sorry.
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Old 10-30-2008, 08:01 PM
 
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Fine, when they military vote gets counted it should be dead even. Looks like FloriDUH goes red again despite the idiots that can't read a simple ballot.
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Old 10-30-2008, 08:03 PM
 
Location: Beautiful East TN!!
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Wait a minute! Early voting or not, votes can not be counted until election day. So to say what the early voting people are voting is subjective and assumptions. Sure, the media source went to primarily democratic counties voting stations and then reported this as fact. But if a Republican links to a newspaper article, it is cast aside as "right wing propaganda" or some such thing.
To even write anything about results of actual votes at this point is either out right lies or a sure case of voting fraud.
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Old 10-30-2008, 09:32 PM
 
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I really think you can't "count" early voters for one candidate or the other. Not in this election. This election may be viewed in history as UNPRECEDENTED for the number of Republicans who voted Democrat and vice versa.

It's bizarre. Is it a good thing?
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Old 10-30-2008, 09:34 PM
 
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Even if blacks voted in lower numbers, Obama's lead would still be around 15 points.

Sorry.

This is actually probably not such bad news for McCain. Democrats early vote in much higher numbers and tend to cannabilize their vote before election day. Republicans vote more on actual election day and the absentee ballots will be heavily for McCain due to the miltary vote.
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Old 10-30-2008, 10:15 PM
 
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This is actually probably not such bad news for McCain. Democrats early vote in much higher numbers and tend to cannabilize their vote before election day. Republicans vote more on actual election day and the absentee ballots will be heavily for McCain due to the miltary vote.

No. Obama leads with those who have voted early (by 10 points) , those who still plan to vote early (by 14 points) , and those who plan to vote on election day (by 6 points).
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Old 10-30-2008, 10:26 PM
 
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No. Obama leads with those who have voted early (by 10 points) , those who still plan to vote early (by 14 points) , and those who plan to vote on election day (by 6 points).

That is just speculation and not what was posted. Those who plan to vote, have not voted.
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Old 10-30-2008, 10:28 PM
 
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Hello??!!!! No votes can be counted before Nov 4th, so where are these numbers of early voting results coming from?? Anyone?
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