Roll Call: Who is voting early? Who is waiting til Nov. 5 (and why?)

finesse said:
We ended up voting today. Still don't see how when matters. If does.
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1. It's like winning the WS in game 5 or waiting until game 6 to win in front of your fans. Shit happens. Take the win as soon as you get it.
2. One candidate might completely crap the bed in the last week. I'm quite positive that the GOP is thanking their lucky stars they have gotten more early turnout. Because the way things are headed, their election day turnout does not appear likely to be robust.
 
Zoo_View said:
Here is why you vote straight party - the whole “I vote for the candidate and not the party” is BS.

Why?

The elected officials vote party and not policy.

When a Phil Berger or Mitch McConnell or Tim Moore or Nancy Pelosi comes calling, the officeholder votes party…….

Susan Collins, that renowned moderate from Maine, voted Kavanaugh because McConnell told her to do so. The GOP needed her vote. When the GOP doesn’t need her vote, she can pretend to be a moderate.

Of course, if someone like Trump or Mark Robinson is running, you don’t vote for that person.

Let me know when the Democrats nominate a Trump or Robinson or Gaetz or Boebert.
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finesse said:
We ended up voting today. Still don't see how when matters. If does.
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It doesn’t matter at all. Voting - period - is all that matters.
 
Anecdote from someone in Ohio

"Early voting in Hamilton county today had a great turn out. Lots of younger people including myself. It was pretty packed but well organized and they were getting people in and out efficiently. They had an area in the parking lot specifically for people demonstrating and showing support for their candidates. On one side were a group of people with Democratic signs and they were handing out sample ballots and offering information on the issues and the candidates. The other group consisted of about 5 people dressed in Trump gear and waving Trump flags and they were just SCREAMING at the group of Harris supporters. Yelling obscenities, pointing and laughing. One lady was yelling at those walking in to vote claiming that the Harris supporters were actors paid with 25 million from Switzerland whatever that means. WTF is wrong with these people?"
 
My wife's elderly uncle got into an argument with another guy today about Trump and the other guy said Kamala Harris wasn't even born in America :ROFLMAO:
 
Got home last night from being out of town for work this week to find that my absentee ballot finally arrived. Just gave 'em the big ol' Straight D and going to hand-deliver it to the election commission in downtown Birmingham at lunch today.
 
CFordUNC said:
Got home last night from being out of town for work this week to find that my absentee ballot finally arrived. Just gave 'em the big ol' Straight D and going to hand-deliver it to the election commission in downtown Birmingham at lunch today.
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Turn Bama Blue?
 
JCTarheel82 said:
Found out tonight that my parents both voted for Trump... again. They're white Evangelical Boomers who have been voting Pub for decades but it never stops being disappointing.
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I feel you there. My dad and stepmother - a retired electrical engineer and an attorney respectively - both did as well. They're both evangelicals and have a steady diet of Fox News 3x/day for the last 29 years. So very disheartening.
 
Yes it does matter when you vote. And generally it is better to vote early.

Bonier from TargetSmart and Simon Rosenberg covered this in one of the videos I posted in one of these threads.

All things being equal and not considering late-breaking news that would change your votes… voting as early as possible allows you to be removed from the rolls that the campaigns are accessing to target voters via ground game/phone/texts/messaging etc. It enables campaigns to focus remaining budget and efforts on those who haven’t yet voted.

It’s probably only a tiny efficiency in the grand scheme of things on the presidential level, but it affects campaigns at all levels where budgets are much smaller. So it was enough to get me to vote early (in-person, almost no line) this year for the first time.

But I also understand those who prefer the tradition of Election Day. It’s like celebrating Thanksgiving the weekend before or after, and not on that Thursday. It may be practical for whatever reason, but it’s just not quite the same.
 
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