Republicans See Edge From Early Voting

[Rose Siding]

(sorry- that's the stupid headline. Looks like the details -on OH, FL, NM and AZ- are coming from an internal repub memo. Dems rebut the claims in the article)

WASHINGTON -- Down in the polls and with their majorities in Congress at risk, Republicans say they have some good news in early-voting statistics that suggest their voter-turnout machine is providing an edge in some tight races.

If the trend holds, it could mean that early voting is growing -- and continuing to benefit Republicans, who exploited the practice in the 1990s. Experts say early voters could be a bigger factor this year when overall voter turnout could be lower than in 2004, a presidential-election year.

This year, though, Democrats contend that Republicans are exaggerating their successes so far, by highlighting a few races, while ignoring problems they are having in motivating their troops around the country. Democrats also questioned several specific Republican claims, while noting their own early-voting numbers show they are starting to catch up with their rivals in early get-out-the-vote efforts in battleground states such as Iowa.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116225455100808339-kD2Rt9LIgeetedGq7ZWei0p9f68_20071030.html?mod=blogsshorter

[tanyev]

1. The edge of the cliff, hopefully.

[Teaser]

2. We said we saw this too

in 2000.


Early voting stats mean dick. And they mean less than dick when the Republicans cherry pick the races from which to highlight their data.

[INdemo]

3. WSJ?..What else would anyone expect them to say..

[sugapablo]

4. Whatever....

Republicans will win both the House and the Senate, most likely due to stealing votes from the e-voting machines, and guess what we'll all do about it?

We'll get online and bitch and moan for another 2 years.

[gfnrob]

8. That's a good point

What should we do? Dig up the guns from the back yard??? Maybe.

[bluestateguy]

5. we're going to have to get used to stories like this for the next week

Stories that read like they were cut and pasted from GOP press releases, desinged to create phony momentumn.

[The Stranger]

6. Did the corporate media totally bury Mark Foley's pedophilia in Congress?

[NashVegas]

7. Propaganda

To try to keep Dem voters away from the polls.