I went to a county Democratic brainstorming session this morning. And I thought you might enjoy some stats from inside a red state:
- 18, 000 Orange County Dems voted early (35% of all eligible County Dems!!)
- Overall, an increase from 54% Dem voter participation to 68% Dem Voter participation.
- Increased by 12,000 overall Dem voter turnout for the 2004 General Election over the 2000 General Election. Yes, 12,000 more people voted for John Kerry than for Al Gore.
- Our US Repesentative, David Price, anticipated 2000 votes from Orange County. Orange County delivered more thant 10,000!
- Our State Supreme Court candidate, Jim Wynn, got 22,000 votes from Orange County alone. The other three candidates in that race got 18,000 combined, statewide. That's about 3-4000 apiece.
The overall goal is to TURN NC BLUE!
If you want to know more, here's my original post in the NC forum:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=170x2831