Early Voting Numbers Look Good for Democrats

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The New York Times: Early Voting Numbers Look Good for Democrats

 

 

OCT. 31, 2014

Nate Cohn

 

Democratic efforts to turn out the young and nonwhite voters who sat out the 2010 midterm elections appear to be paying off in several Senate battleground states.

 

More than 20 percent of the nearly three million votes already tabulated in Georgia, North Carolina, Colorado and Iowa have come from people who did not vote in the last midterm election, according to an analysis of early-voting data by The Upshot.

 

These voters who did not participate in 2010 are far more diverse and Democratic than the voters from four years ago. On average across these states, 39 percent are registered Democrats and 30 percent are registered Republicans. By comparison, registered Republicans outnumbered Democrats in these states by an average of 1 percentage point in 2010.

 

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Nate Cohn Thinks the Democrats can Win by Losing

By: Leon H. Wolf (Diary) | November 2nd, 2014 at 09:49 AM

 

Nate Cohn, writing in the New York Times, did his best to put some lipstick on a pig yesterday by suggesting that the impending Republican victory (which he has been busily trying to suggest will not happen) isn’t really bad news for Democrats at all.

 

Cohn’s article is fairly typical of the completely evidence-free wishful thinking I recall our side engaging in during the latter stages of 2006 and indicates some hope that the Democrats intend to learn nothing from their coming chastisement at the hands of the voters. Cohn’s thesis is as follows:

 

But perhaps more important to the party’s long-term prospects than Tuesday’s results is what unfolds in the presidential battleground states. If the night ends with tight races in Iowa, North Carolina, Colorado and Georgia, as the polls suggest, then the results will not be as great for Republicans as many analysts will surely proclaim. http://www.redstate.com/2014/11/02/nate-cohn-thinks-democrats-can-win-losing/

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‘There’s something seriously wrong with Barack Obama’. And until the day he’s no longer in the White House, there will be something seriously wrong with America.

 

Corpses, zombies and illegals out in full force for Midterms

 

By Judi McLeod November 2, 2014

 

The Internet cartoon depicting the avuncular old geezer who looks like everybody’s Uncle Fred, Frank, or Felix accompanied by the comments: “Uncle Frank was a Conservative until the day he died in Chicago. Since then, he has voted Democrat”, describes Midterms 2014 to a ‘T’. Dearly departed relatives casting votes for Dems from their graves is not just the stuff of Internet jokes. Unfortunately, it’s part of the reality of present-day U.S. elections, including this coming Tuesday’s http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/67225