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I understand the race in North Carolina is so tight that both Donald and Hillary are virtually tied.
Early voting is about evenly split between Ds and Rs, or so I've heard.
Black vote was supposedly lower the first week than the first week last time around.
There's been a bit of chaos with the first week of early voting. Republican efforts to suppress the vote by shortening the early voting was overturned by the courts and there was a scramble to get places set up.
Plus, the flooding from Hurricane Mathews was in counties with the highest proportion of black voters. So that may have kept some voters preoccupied for a time.
Rev. Barbar and the Moral Mondays movement has focused on GOTV. Just have to see how that works out
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.
Lol, the only ones worrying about who's going to defect in the voting booth are the Democrats.
Not worried about Democrats deflecting in the voting booth. The biggest issue (for both sides) is to get their supporters INTO the voting booth. In other words, get-out-the-vote. There are a lot of people each election that just don't bother to vote.
Democrats always vote much lower numbers in mid-term elections but they love to vote during presidential elections.
This could be an indication how North Carolina is going to sway on election day. Hillary Clinton is leading big in North Carolina early voting and its a bigger margin than in 2008 when Obama carried the state. Also the Democratic candidate for governor Roy Cooper is leading big over incumbent Republican Pat McCrory. And it looks like the democrats may pick up a senate seat in North Carolina. If Hillary wins North Carolina, its game over for Trump. He would have to pick up at least 2 or 3 deep blue states. There is also a good chance the Democrats could take over the senate and if this is a wave election, maybe even the house.
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.
Sounds like Nate has been talking the same for 6 years.
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