Reminder - exit polling doesn't include the military & other absentee

TexasSissy

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Tue Nov-02-04 03:45 PM
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Reminder - exit polling doesn't include the military & other absentee

ballots!

Just a reminder! I had forgotten until I saw another poster remind us in a thread.

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jefferson_dem

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Tue Nov-02-04 03:45 PM
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1. Or early voters, or American abroad.

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Hobarticus

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Tue Nov-02-04 03:46 PM
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2. True dat, but good news:

K up 60k absentee ballots in IA as of Friday!

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ranosgol

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Tue Nov-02-04 03:47 PM
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3. Yeah the mil vote will go heavy bush.

I am veteran and when your in if you vote u vote repug but when u hit the streets in the real world many shift to dems.

I would say 80-90 % of mil will go Bush...Officers and the like tend to vote enlisted usually don't especially ones that live on base.

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fugop

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Tue Nov-02-04 03:50 PM
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5. Maybe not that high this year

Edited on Tue Nov-02-04 03:51 PM by fugop

The military will still go Bush, but not necessarily by that much. A friend who's a marine said they've had unprecedented get out the vote stuff this year, and the enlisted (especially those in Iraq) may not be quite so heavy for *. The ones I know sure aren't.

And absentee includes all those people living abroad, too, who may be EXTREMELY anti-Bush this year. So who knows?

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JohnnyRingo

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Tue Nov-02-04 04:12 PM
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7. I have two friends with kids on active. (One in Korea and one in Iraq)

When I spoke them, last month and in Sept respectively, they both told me the opposite is true among their peers.

Their parents both have Kerry/Edwards signs in their yards too.

I don't think Buxh has the enlisted overseas mil "in the bag" this time. At least not the "short timers".

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venus

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Tue Nov-02-04 03:49 PM
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4. And the military and absentees are primarily REPUBLICAN.

Wouldn't there be hundreds of thousands of military voters? hmmm?

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FlashHarry

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Tue Nov-02-04 03:57 PM
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6. Though early voting favored Kerry...

...and expat Americans tend Democratic. Maybe that'll cancel out the military vote. It ain't over till it's over. KEEP VOTING, AMERICA!

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