Election Update: Democratic early vote outstrips GOP by 700,000

[Demovictory9]

https://www.capitalandconflict.com/geopolitics/election-update-democratic-early-vote-outstrips-gop-by-700000/

Election Day will officially be held on Tuesday 3rd November in America.

But actually, every day is Election Day from now until then.

Early voting has already kicked off in several key “battleground” states – contests that will deal a knockout blow for one candidate in the Electoral College math.

It’s striking because the early votes coming in are the first concrete signs of what’s to come.

These actual results are real in a way polling simply isn’t – and they offer major clues on what’s to come.

Democrats dominating in the early vote so far

I was surprised when I saw a poll result from CNN News showing that 53% of Biden’s supporters rated themselves “very enthusiastic” about voting, compared to 46% of Trump’s backers.

After all, conventional wisdom holds that Biden’s backers are lining up behind the guy they see as “good enough” while Trump’s voters see him as an almost messianic figure.

But the result has held in other polls, too. I’ve seen the best theory for why coming from the vaunted statistician, Nate Silver.

“Many of Biden’s backers aren’t as enthusiastic about Biden as Trump voters are about Trump,” Silver wrote.

“But Biden’s voters are extremely enthusiastic about beating Donald Trump. And that could amount to the same thing.”

Now, over the last week of early voting in the key battleground state of North Carolina, we’ve seen a surge in Democratic early voting that seems to validate this idea.

In North Carolina, Democrats have a three-to-one advantage over Republicans in absentee ballot requests so far.

https://www.capitalandconflict.com/geopolitics/election-update-democratic-early-vote-outstrips-gop-by-700000/

[lagomorph777]

1. Keep it up, folks! I'll be hand-returning my ballot the day I receive it!

[Iliyah]

2. Voting early, if safe, is the way to do it . .

Hearing that shithole's republicans nut cases will be bullying polls where Democrats vote is un-American.

Sending fake Christians to mess with Americans civil right to vote is evil.

Screwing with absentee ballots across the country while republicans rejoice will backfire on them.

republicans hate Democracy.

[sboatcar]

3. I feel the same way Nate Silver describes

I'm not super enthusiastic about Biden, but I will proudly vote for him because this country seriously cannot weather another 4 years of Trump.
That being said, I don't think he'll be a bad president at all, but he's no Barack Obama. But to have someone who has actual compassion in the White House will be the end of a long national nightmare.

[crickets]

4. K&R for visibility.