NC Voting Update: October 22

[moose65]

October 15 was the first day of Early Voting in NC. After the sites closed on Wednesday, October 21, here are the updated totals:

Mail-in ballots received: 693,198
Early voting (7 days): 1,744,218

Total: 2,437,416

Party breakdown of those who have voted:

Democratic: 1,038,751
Unaffiliated: 698,179
Republican: 691,174
Libertarian: 7,718
Green: 840
Constitution: 754

33.3% of registered voters have already voted! Lookin good!

Source: https://carolinaelections.com/votetracker/

[Roland99]

1. Any idea what the breakdown of non-party affiliation was in 2016?

How they broke for Clinton vs trump?

[Drunken Irishman]

2. Trump 53-37.

If you count unaffiliated as independent.

[gristy]

3. Can we presume that unaffiliated/independent voters have not been indoctrinated into the Trump cult?

I think so, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this group is going to flip the other way and vote for Biden, 53-37.

[Drunken Irishman]

5. Yes. I don't think Trump will do nearly as well.

[Roland99]

7. wow...much higher than the split FL had

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214335966

[Roland99]

8. Using a pessimistic 60/40 split (Red/Dem)....

Democratic 1,318,023
Republican 1,110,081

[mnhtnbb]

4. I would expect it to break closer to 50/50 this election

More young people are registering unaffiliated and tend to vote for climate and social justice issues. NC has a large active and retired military population due to all the bases here. I'm guessing the "losers and suckers" name calling from Trump along with the Russian bounties on US soldiers which he didn't denounce are going to lose him a lot of votes from the military. We'll have to wait and see.

[sunonmars]

6. One interesting caveat i found at the bottom regarding NC early vote

Voted in 2016 General 1,884,085 77.3
Did Not Vote in 2016 General 553,332 22.7
TOTAL 2,437,417 100.0


553,332 voters this year in NC did not vote in 2016