General Discussion

RandySF

(59,413 posts) Sun Oct 21, 2012, 01:38 AM Oct 2012

First day report of Nevada early voting. Very encouraging.

Jon Ralston ?@RalstonReports
First early voting #s in from Washoe, The Swing County: Dems had 48% to 38% for Republicans. 4,604 to 3,619. County even in reg. #GOPmachine

Jon Ralston ?@RalstonReports
@markdmiller2 It's only 1 day. But if Dems do well in Washoe County, they are going to do well in race for White House, may win #nvsen, too.

Jon Ralston ?@RalstonReports
@DanteAtkins It's share that matters. The Dems are winning by 10 points. And 1,000 votes. If the GOP was going to show force, Washoe was it.

Jon Ralston ?@RalstonReports
@DavidAtkins Early vote all about organization. Only 1 day of data. I'll say this: If Dems win Washoe by 10 percent, going to be landslide.

Jon Ralston ?@RalstonReports
More than 31,000 turned out in Clark. Four years ago, number was 25,000. Partisan breakdown will be interesting. Dems had huge edge in '08.

Jon Ralston ?@RalstonReports
Clark County early vote numbers are in: 18,388 Dems, 9,588 Republicans. 55%-29%. Similar to '08, but bigger raw vote lead. #GOPmachine

Jon Ralston ?@RalstonReports
Correction: Was looking at Day 3 in '08 (damn eyes). It's just under first day raw vote total in Clark for Dems in '12. But still huge.

https://twitter.com/RalstonReports

7 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

First day report of Nevada early voting. Very encouraging. (Original Post) RandySF Oct 2012 OP

More evidence democrats just aren't excited about this election. LisaL Oct 2012 #1

Great new! nt ProudProgressiveNow Oct 2012 #2

Obama won Washoe by 12.6 ... almost exactly his margin in '08 there. Drunken Irishman Oct 2012 #3

Good news!! I'm voting tommorrow and taking my mom to vote too. We are in Clark County. SweetieD Oct 2012 #4

you know , if these early voting polls were the other way around, the media would be all over it JI7 Oct 2012 #5

^ + 1,000 n/t upi402 Oct 2012 #6

Clark county is the (population) power in NV. We're going to add a couple more here on Monday. Egalitarian Thug Oct 2012 #7

LisaL

(44,974 posts)

1. More evidence democrats just aren't excited about this election.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sun Oct 21, 2012, 01:41 AM

Oct 2012

ProudProgressiveNow

(6,129 posts)

2. Great new! nt

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sun Oct 21, 2012, 01:42 AM

Oct 2012

Drunken Irishman

(34,857 posts)

3. Obama won Washoe by 12.6 ... almost exactly his margin in '08 there.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sun Oct 21, 2012, 01:59 AM

Oct 2012

SweetieD

(1,660 posts)

4. Good news!! I'm voting tommorrow and taking my mom to vote too. We are in Clark County.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sun Oct 21, 2012, 02:19 AM

Oct 2012

JI7

(89,279 posts)

5. you know , if these early voting polls were the other way around, the media would be all over it

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sun Oct 21, 2012, 02:23 AM

Oct 2012

and talking about how Obama should be worried and how Great romney is. but they are pretty much being ignored by the whores.

it looks to me like the whores pick out any poll which might seem close or have romney leading and claim the race is tied or Romney is leading.

but they are ignoring all the other polls which say otherwise.

upi402

(16,854 posts)

6. ^ + 1,000 n/t

Reply to JI7 (Reply #5)

Sun Oct 21, 2012, 02:28 AM

Oct 2012

Egalitarian Thug

(12,448 posts)

7. Clark county is the (population) power in NV. We're going to add a couple more here on Monday.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sun Oct 21, 2012, 02:39 AM

Oct 2012

Clark county, Las Vegas for those of you with the good sense not to live here, has a population of ~1.8M. Washoe county is the second largest with a population of ~400K, Third is Carson with a population of ~55K so you see, as Las Vegas goes, so goes Nevada.

If you ever watched Casino, remember the part with the dumb-ass yahoo that fucked up so badly as the slot machine manager, but Robert DeNiro couldn't fire him because he was some county commissioner's nephew? That is a depressingly accurate portrayal of Nevada in general and Nevada politics in particular.

All the people and all money are down here, but the state is run by the most pig-ignorant, blatant small-time crooks you can envision up in Carson City.

Reply to this discussion