This is going to be brief. I’m watching MSNBC live, Chris Jansing, Katy Tur, Andrea Mitchell at anchor with John Kasich and Cornell Belcher as guests.
Katy Tur interrupted the commentary. I’ll transcribe verbatim what she said:
TUR: We got a little bit of interesting reporting from one of our — from Maura Barrett who’s out there in Wisconsin, and she was talking to an aide — Wisconsin Republican Party official on background — and she said that looking at the state’s early voting demographics by gender, the source expressed some concern for Donald Trump and Eric Hovde, who’s running for Senate there against Tammy Baldwin. There’s a 50-43 split women to men in mail-in voting and early voting votes already cast.
If this lines up with how the split is in same-day in-person voting, this source is really concerned, especially because there was such a big effort by the GOP to bank your vote. To cast your vote before Election Day.
MITCHELL: And let me just also point out that this is replicated by what the Democratic Chair, Ben Wikler, has been saying on the record in a text to me today.
BELCHER: It’s also what we’ve been seeing in data coming up to this. Look — if this holds, it’s a women’s wave.
My emphasis added.
First, DUH. Second, YAY! Third, I just got all Chris Matthews ca 2008 and felt a thrill up my leg.
Less than three hours the first polls closing!! WHOO!!!