The Official Absentee & Early Voting Reports Thread

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The Ohio Democrats are timid, so i am fairly certain that Husted will be able to easily steal this state for Robme and the Koch brothers.

[sarcasm]Wow!  Sending everyone an absentee ballot application really suppresses the vote.

Seems like we discovered Husted's "Final solution" (oops) to suppress Democratic votes, get them to vote absentee then toss the ballots for inane reasons. Also don't forget that if someone makes an error on their ballot the local Board of Elections "Cannot" call the voter, they can only mail a form which could take a week if ever to get to the voter. I swear this guy Husted must have a PHD in Election Rigging from MIT.

Listen pal, I don't know what your problem is and I honestly don't care, you need to start showing some respect for the victims of the Holocaust.  That's really not asking much.  If you can't even do that, than there's something wrong with you and you're no better than the tea-party crowd.  This wasn't even you using a term like "Gestapo" in casual conversation to refer to an organization, this was just you being obnoxious.  There was no point to it (which is why you included the "oops").  It was essentially an "f-you" to me for criticizing your disgusting earlier post.  It's about time you cut this crap out.  Grow up or shut up.

Drop the hammer on him, man. It's astounding the amount of idiots come out of the woodwork come election time. While the 'ignore' button is a wonderful feature, it does the forum good to have people actually calling them, too. I have a hard time keeping my temper in those kinds of situations, so I have to just hit 'ignore' or end up stooping lower.

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Okay, we have three states, IA (in terms of applications), NC, and NV, where, so far, R's are running a little bit ahead of 2008. 

Which, in an election like this, still has to be considered good news for Obama, no? I mean, he doesn't need 350, just 270. Or will there be so much smaller a gap on actual election day that this shift could be significant?

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The net loss is likely due to interest in the D primaries in 2008 shifting to interest in the R primaries in 2012, wouldn't you think? Does Pennsylvania limit primary participation to that party?

Bingo, mein freund. I know a great number of people who switch nearly every election cycle just to have a greater effect.

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The net loss is likely due to interest in the D primaries in 2008 shifting to interest in the R primaries in 2012, wouldn't you think? Does Pennsylvania limit primary participation to that party?

No.    It was a net 113 vote gain for the R's. 

http://www.dos.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/voter_registration_statistics/12725

It is very rare for people to change parties in PA. 

Can't argue with the numbers, and there they are. I'm not terribly surprised, I suppose. I mean, there are a ton (a ton!) of D's in PA that have no business being D's whatsoever and probably never vote D.

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Iowa early vote turnout has now surpassed 2008's early vote turnout.

What do you think of the change in Dem proportions in the state, then? The polls certainly seem to bode well for Obama, but the swing in finalg gap isn't wondrous. Enough to hold, do you suppose, considering that Obama won by 9 in '08?

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Assuring news from a state that would make a good back-up to a bad surprise somewhere.