This diary will be short. The Clevleand Plain Dealer is reporting that turnout in Cuyahoga County is light. That's not actually true, since a lot of ballots were done by mail. They are expecting about 430,000 votes this year, which is about 20,000 less than in 2006. Strickland did very well in the county that year, and should do well this year thanks to a nearly 3:1 early voting advantage, but there is room to grow.
In order to seal the deal, we need to match 2006 levels. We need 20,000 more votes!
CAN YOU HELP?
The staging areas are getting tons of volunteers, and we shattered Bill Clinton's 60,000 volunteer hour challenge, but we need more folks to go to the polls today.
If you can, make some calls via OFA, or better yet, volunteer at one of these staging locations:
http://www.fightforohio.com/...
Take off work early if you can... we need all the help we can get!
Thank you for your support!
UPDATES ON THE FLIP
UPDATE: It gets worse... it looks like turnout may be even lighter than the 430,000 predicted and may be as low as 210,00... GOTV!!!
UDATE 2: The folks at SwingState have crunched the numbers, and it isn't as bad as it may seem. If the initial estimate were to hold, it would be an increase in participation to 2006, since Cuyahoga County lost a lot of people over the last few years. But, these new estimates are putting things lower, so we are still short, but not by a ton. Please help GOTV.