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New Hampshire voters head to the polls Tuesday to decide whether the Republican primary will continue or it's all over but the crying. Voters in the "Live Free or Die" state often quip that Iowa picks corn and New Hampshire picks presidents. But at the...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Tue Jan 23, 2024 at 06:30 AM PST
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Former Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez enters Arizona House Race to Unseat MAGA Extremist Eli Crane. Help Him Flip the Seat. Jonathan Nez who led the Navajo Nation as President through the roughest days of the COVID-19 pandemic has declared his...
by Roadrunner65
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on Sat Nov 04, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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A new study of the 2022 midterm elections from Pew Research Center found that Republican voters turned out at higher levels than Democratic ones did. It wasn't exactly a startling revelation given that voters of the party not in power typically...
by Kerry Eleveld
98 comments
on Thu Jul 13, 2023 at 08:34 AM PDT
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Immediately after Barack Obama's historic presidential win in 2008, progressive pundits and analysts flooded the news with commentary declaring a demographic doomsday for Republicans. The Obama coalition of non-white voters, single women, and young...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Wed May 17, 2023 at 09:07 AM PDT
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An analysis of youth voting in the 2022 midterms shows that voters under 30 helped drive critical Democratic wins in key swing states and suggests juicing youth turnout in 2024 could help Democrats dominate the cycle. The report released this month by...
by Kerry Eleveld
93 comments
on Wed Apr 26, 2023 at 11:18 AM PDT
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This year’s highest-profile electoral contest gave Democrats an undeniable shot in the arm. A liberal judge, running on abortion access and safeguarding democracy, trounced a conservative judge with polar opposite views, flipping a state Supreme Court...
by Kerry Eleveld
137 comments
on Sat Apr 22, 2023 at 07:30 AM PDT
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After their midterm debacle, a multitude of Republicans have stepped forward to roll out their entirely uninformed, often deluded, personal takes about what went wrong for the GOP. Perennial Trump bootlicker Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Fri Dec 09, 2022 at 01:30 PM PST
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I have upgraded my prediction from Warnock +4 to Warnock +5 for a variety of reasons. First, there are lots of mail ballots still to arrive and be counted and those are going favor Warnock overwhelmingly. During the general election, Warnock even won...
by FightingRegistrar
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on Mon Dec 05, 2022 at 01:28 PM PST
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As expected, it was a huge day for early voting in Georgia yesterday. Over 380,000 people voted by mail, ballot dropoff, or in person. Lines stretched as long as three hours in Atlanta. By examining the electorate yesterday, we can see some encouraging...
by FightingRegistrar
57 comments
on Sat Dec 03, 2022 at 09:40 AM PST
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Although it rained over much of Georgia yesterday, there was barely any decrease in overall voting. Roughly 282,000 people voted in person and another 33,000 voted by mail for a total of 315,000. This is only a reduction of 15,000 from the day before....
by FightingRegistrar
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on Thu Dec 01, 2022 at 10:39 AM PST
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The numbers are in from Tuesday, and it was another record day for turnout. About 330,000 people voted early either in-person or by mail. The Atlanta metro counties of Fulton, Dekalb, Cobb, and Gwinnett accounted for nearly 100,000 of those votes. And...
by FightingRegistrar
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on Wed Nov 30, 2022 at 10:19 AM PST
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2022 turnout was down slightly from 2018. But it spiked in a handful of critical battleground states When all the votes are counted, the 2022 midterms will go down as being a solid turnout cycle, even though it didn't quite reach the heights of the soaring turnout in 2018.
Overall, an estimated�46%
by Kerry Eleveld
54 comments
on Fri Nov 25, 2022 at 12:00 PM PST
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Just a quicky today to encourage you to take a look at Jonathan Tannen’s Philadelphia Election Tracker. He’s a data scientist who has written an app that allows Philadelphians to send in their voter #, ward, division (what normal cities call a...
by DrFrink
102 comments
on Tue Nov 08, 2022 at 07:27 AM PST
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I had wanted to post regular update about early election numbers, but sometimes life gets in the way. So here is my update five days out from Election day. Simon Rosenberg has been touting early voting results as a sign that Democrats are more...
by greenlabormike
63 comments
on Thu Nov 03, 2022 at 08:09 AM PDT
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CNN has new polling out today on key Senate and Governor races. Many polls, some of which have been trending toward Republicans this past couple of weeks, only publish the “likely voter” results, leaving a lot of room for subjectivity in who is...
by bumper monster
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on Mon Oct 24, 2022 at 10:04 PM PDT
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After my last Senate map (D 53-46), I analyzed the polls in mid-late September but did not publish the results. Here was that happy map (D 54-46 counting leaners): Just a month ago, my polls-only analysis showed GA, OH, and NC as Leaning Democratic (2%...
by sbd
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on Wed Oct 26, 2022 at 08:14 AM PDT
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Perhaps the biggest story in politics right now (besides GOP fascism and Trump’s criminality) is the fact that record numbers of people are voting early this midterm. In truth, no one knows exactly what that means in terms of outcomes. But at the very...
by Kerry Eleveld
75 comments
on Fri Oct 21, 2022 at 12:52 PM PDT
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From www.VoteBlue2022.co Your future is on the line…and in your hands. Now that Roe is overturned, the MAGA goal is to create a national ban on abortion turning women, doctors, and those who help them, into criminals. But they can’t do that if the...
by ProfWriter101
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on Wed Oct 19, 2022 at 11:22 AM PDT
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I do not share anyone’s optimism regarding early voting. We saw this before in 2020. I saw it first-hand here in very red Staten Island in 2020. The very first day of early voting in 2020, the line at the early voting center stretched 3 blocks, on a...
by DavidE00
11 comments
on Wed Oct 19, 2022 at 07:54 AM PDT
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On April 5, Wisconsinites voted in their spring local elections. There was no statewide candidate on the ballot. The last time that happened, in 2014, only 505,729 people voted. On April 5, 2022, it ...
by Ben Wikler
26 comments
on Fri Apr 22, 2022 at 07:00 AM PDT
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