Early Voting Gains For Romney, But Obama Repeats Strong 2008 Performance By Matt Sledge | HuffPost | 10/26/12 EDT Excerpts: NEW YORK - President Barack Obama flew to Chicago on Thursday to cast his vote early - a first for a sitting president, and a move carefully crafted to set an example for his supporters. "We never even considered that," marveled Adrian Gray, who served as national voter contact director for the George W. Bush campaign in 2004. "It's a good idea." It's also a sign of just how dramatically the practice of American voting has changed over the last 10 years. Voters in many states are now allowed to use absentee ballots or in-person voting at election offices to make their decisions early. Long lines for early voting were common in 2008, when Obama made heavy use of the practice. His campaign is trying to repeat that success this year in places like Wisconsin, where young voters camped out in front of the municipal building in Milwaukee as if they were waiting for an iPhone release. Now, with the actual election just a week and a half away, both Obama and Mitt Romney's campaigns are claiming an early voting edge. But a close look at the numbers reported so far show that while early voting is up across the board, neither campaign has a distinct advantage. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/25/early-voting-romney-obama_n_2019501.html?ref=topbar ..... And as we enter the last weeks of the election we are left with the question: do we vote for President Obama who has helped our nation survive the Bush Recession and are now climbing back into prosperity despite the obstruction of the republicans in Congress to filibuster everything Obama in the effort to keep him a one-term-president. or...do we vote for a corporate raiding vulure who loves to bankrupt companies, fire their workers, then ship the business overseas for cheap labor. A man without a decent political philosophy for more than two weeks; a man without a core and a monster with multiple personalities who belongs on a psychiatrists couch not in our great nations White House.
You really are a good writer. But your talents are being wasted here on a politics forum. With your gift for fiction, you should branch out and try your hand at a novel or two.
Does that mean that the Sleazocrats will be illegally registering hundreds of thousands of phony voters to cast absentee/provisional ballots ...AGAIN? Is that the "2008 performance" you're harping about? It's what WON OBAMA the ELECTION, in OHIO, at least...
It's really interesting that NC is so blue in the early voting. I wonder why? I really don't expect Obama to win in NC but I wonder if there isn't a real demographic difference between those that vote early and those that vote on Nov 6 that would cause a state that should be red to be blue early on.
