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Mon Nov 5, 2018, 05:03 PM Nov 2018

Huge turnout raises Dem hopes for a wave

New poll results and a surge of younger and first-time voters heading to the polls in the days leading up to Election Day have Democrats considering the possibility that a big blue wave is about to crest over the midterm elections.

For months, polls have showed voters — both Democrats and, especially in recent weeks, Republicans — are enthusiastic about the midterm elections, excited to show up and cast a ballot.

Now, actual results are proving those polls correct. More than 34 million people have already cast their votes early or by absentee ballot.

That is a more than 50-percent increase over the total number of early votes cast in the 2014 midterm elections, an unprecedented spike in which voter turnout in some states is rivaling typical turnout levels in a presidential year.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/414832-huge-turnout-raises-dem-hopes-for-a-wave?userid=229233

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Huge turnout raises Dem hopes for a wave (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2018 OP
Please, let it be so. TheCowsCameHome Nov 2018 #1
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