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| Lebezniatnikov |
Relevant news:
| quote: | Early Voting And Absentee Balloting Favors Obama -- In Multiple Bush States
By Greg Sargent - October 20, 2008, 10:28AM
The Associated Press has a good rundown on early voting and requests for absentee balloting in various key battlegrounds:
* Dems lead in Iowa, with Dems asking for roughly 60,000 more ballots than Repubicans as of last Wednesday.
* Dems lead in Ohio, with about 35,000 more Dems requesting absentee ballots than Republicans as of last week.
* Dems lead in North Carolina early voting, with some 62% of the more than 200,000 who voted last Thursday and Friday being registered Democrats, while only 22% were registered Republicans.
* In Georgia, many of the more than 540,000 ballots that were cast as of Wednesday were in Dem strongholds of metropolitan Atlanta, and blacks accounted for 37% of them.
* In Florida, GOPers hold an edge in absentee balloting, with 220,000 more Republicans requesting absentee ballots than Dems.
All of those states went for Bush in 2004, and if McCain doesn't win them all the map becomes very difficult for him. |
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpo...sentee_ball.php |
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| Ian |
| quote: | Originally posted by squirrelly
It starts today in FL anyway. |
I reckon that FL should've been 2 months ago, to give you time for a recount etc :toothless
And Lira, we should boycott it indeed :stongue: |
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| squirrelly |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ian
I reckon that FL should've been 2 months ago, to give you time for a recount etc :toothless
And Lira, we should boycott it indeed :stongue: |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ian
I reckon that FL should've been 6 months ago, to give you time for a recount of the recount of the re-recount.etc :toothless
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Fixed for accuracy! |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
:wtf:
Really? That surprises me, in Wisconsin it's 28 days before the election, so I voted almost two weeks ago already. |
my friends up in chicago told me the same thing about illinois too; i think. |
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| MeLLyMeL |
Waiting for my absantee ballot in the mail.
Hope it comes on time since I run on Cuban time and sent my ballot request late. haha. |
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| nchs09 |
Early voting started 2 weeks ago or so here in atlanta too.
Man..... iv never voted before in my life :(
I cant vote here, and Guatemala does NOT have absentee ballots.... so voting would cost me around 500 dollars :/ |
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| Allied Nations |
missed the registration deadline and my ballot goes to texas anyways...
next time!
:(
i share a lot of views with both candidates but after living in a system with public healthcare, it would be hard to go back without a job w/ healthcare included.
Obama/Biden supporter, Mccain sympathizer
go canada |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Allied Nations
missed the registration deadline and my ballot goes to texas anyways...
next time!
:(
i share a lot of views with both candidates but after living in a system with public healthcare, it would be hard to go back without a job w/ healthcare included.
Obama/Biden supporter, Mccain sympathizer
go canada |
Socialized healthcare does not work in massive populations. It has too many caveats to make it worthwhile. Britain is a great example. 60m people and it is crumbling under its own weight. |
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| Allied Nations |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
Socialized healthcare does not work in massive populations. It has too many caveats to make it worthwhile. Britain is a great example. 60m people and it is crumbling under its own weight. |
yeah maybe, but it sure is nice to have it up here
even thought it sucks sometimes- i never have to worry about pulling out my wallet at the hospital, and the wait times can be just as bad in privatized systems. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Allied Nations
yeah maybe, but it sure is nice to have it up here
even thought it sucks sometimes- i never have to worry about pulling out my wallet at the hospital, and the wait times can be just as bad in privatized systems. |
The wait times at a hospital yes, but the wait time for a surgery you should have now to prevent worse health complications later, no. |
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| Allied Nations |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
The wait times at a hospital yes, but the wait time for a surgery you should have now to prevent worse health complications later, no. |
probably true... fingers crossed for me! :p |
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