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LA EARLY VOTERS Early voting for the Louisiana Gubernatorial runoff began last Saturday and according to the Secretary of States Office
it appears that November 2nd voters broke the state record as the highest first day of early voting turnout ever. Louisiana voters went to the polls Saturday in huge numbers some 89,623 early votes were counted
thats about 2500 more votes than the benchmark 2016 presidential election AND about 12,000 more votes than were cast in the recent primary.
John Couvillon of JMC Analytics and Polling took a look at the demographic breakdown of early voters in both the primary and current runoff. He shared his thoughts with Public Radio WRKF in Baton Rouge.
COUVILLION: "One of the things that we had noted in the beginning was that you had external events, more specifically the impeachment inquiry, which drove Republican turnout pretty high and stayed throughout out early voting. Now that governor Edwards is in a runoff, I think there's much more of a motivation to get Democrats to go early vote. They succeeded. You had a much stronger democratic turnout this time around than in the primary. Republican numbers stayed relatively strong as well. Both contributed to two nights of record turnout."
Couvillion says he thinks high early voting turnout will continue to grow for future elections.
COUVILLION: "You have a generation of people, as they're entering the voting bloodstream, so to speak. They appreciate the convenience of early voting, and so early voting has steadily gained popularity. In the primary, a record 28% of the total was cast early. This time, I would not be surprised to see the total get into the 30-33% range."
https://www.redriverradio.org/post/louisiana-early-voting-turnout-breaks-record
Demovictory9
(32,449 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,641 posts)FUcking SOBs
Demovictory9
(32,449 posts)question everything
(47,472 posts)Right?
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)confident that Gov. John Bel Edwards will have a second term.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)If all the Republican voters from the primary show up, we could lose. The combined votes that the two republican candidates got in the primary (Rispone and Abraham) were more than those for Democrat John Bel Edwards. Abraham endorsed Rispone immediately after the primary.
But the mention of new voters who didnt vote in the primary but have voted for Edwards in the run off does give me hope.
Indykatie
(3,696 posts)Hopefully that will spur Dems to get their butts out and vote.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)They will happily votes against their own interests in favor of racism.
People who live in New Orleans and other cites are mostly Democrats and they get it.
The hicks in the sticks will always be MAGAts.