www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-p-mcdonald/early-voting-more-states_b_12517738.html


"Also, in 2012, Ohio in-person early voting was underway for a longer period at this point in the cycle."

Though, it's certainly not great news. Let's just hope people who aren't really in the mood to vote because of the unpopularity of these 2 with half (or more in Dumdum's case) of the voters, will realize Trump MUST be stopped. I cannot even fathom how nauseated we will all be if he won, and hopefully those less inclined to vote will do so! Again, like I tell everyone I know, "you gotta vote, please!", and like they say, we're mostly friends with like minded people on politics, so I know if everyone voted I talk to, that'd be great!

on his pollster averages for Iowa and Ohio due to Clinton's recent surge. Appears he significantly overestimates Trumps chances at each of these states.

If you read the article CAREFULLY, it states that Ohio doesn't give party identification info on who bites early. So while the early vote totals are down in these counties, we don't know the breakdown of Dems voting versus Republicans voting. It's entirely conceivable that Republicans in cities are not voting early which would bring the overall totals down.

Thanks for doing so!


Also, the great news is that VA early voting was so bad for Trump they gave up the state as we heard!

"within the Democratic stronghold of Northern Virginia it is up 55.6%"

"Stick a fork in Virginia, it’s done. The early voting numbers and polling numbers are looking so bad for Trump that the campaign pulled out last week, essentially conceded the state to Clinton."

Considering all the other counties don't have reduced turnout. If Republicans weren't early voting, you'd expected reduced turnout in heavily republican counties. But apparently that isn't happening.

So, obviously, they need to be pushing the GOTV in those counties exclusively. I really hope LeBron keeps telling people to vote, and I'm sure he will.

Obama beat Romney by huge margins in both of them. It's be very disappointing if democrats in those counties don't get out to vote.

I found an article from October 3, 2012. They were already early voting. This year early voting started on October 12. So 10 days of early voting were lost this year. We can only hope they will catch up.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/10/03/new-early-voting-site-has-critics-fans-on-first-day.html

that matters a lot, and many working class people in those counties early vote on the weekend, so despite the OH sec of state getting his wish (sigh.... typical) and getting early voting cut down, hopefully people will vote before election day when lines will be huge after work.

Still time to catch up, one would hope.

In the same way the less educated ones do.

I'm not saying I'm right but since we don't have party ID numbers, it's all conjecture.

that don't involve Ohio.

another hope for them. Yes!!! If FL stays for her, it's over. But, we can't assume it definitely will, of course, but he has a huge Hill (lol) in front of him to climb, and he ain't the guy to do it!

But those electoral votes could prove to be critical. Excellent call, HRC!

Hopefully it will be a landslide for us, but if not, knowing that dumdum is already out of VA is awesome!

the total number of votes, because OH lost 10 days of early voting compared to 2012. But they are turning out in higher numbers if you compare each day to each day. So hopefully they can catch up to 2012 over the whole voting period.

"Voter turnout in Franklin County, home to state capital Columbus, is robust with more than 9,300 votes cast in person in the first four days, a 80 percent boost over the same period in 2012."
http://plunderbund.com/2016/10/20/hillarys-vp-sen-tim-kaine-tells-ohioans-2016-election-in-the-palm-of-their-hands/

The downward trend of early voting may be inevitable in the highly populated African American areas, but that's not necessarily "bad" for Hillary. Since Obama is not on the ballot, we have to come to grips with the fact that quite a few Black people, young people, and anybody else that the "Hope and Change" campaign galvanized is not going to be as motivated.

As a Hillary supporter, I have been trying to urge them to focus on the Obama coalition, but we should definitely have our own identity in order to encourage voter turnout.

That's noted in his article. And as others have said, these numbers relate to all requested ballots, not requests by party. They can continue to request ballots until 11/5. In 2012, 40% of ballot requests came in after 10/5/2012

And FWIW, while those counties voted heavily for Pres. Obama in 2012, there were 400,000 votes for Romney between the two of them.