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Swing state moochers start voting this week
Mitt Romney is currently trailing in the polls with only 42 days until the election. That “42 days” number, however, overstates the time he really has left to change the dynamics of the race. Thanks to early voting rules, the actual amount of time he has is significantly less.
Most of the important swing states have some form of early voting, and a large percentage of voters will take advantage of it this year. Listed below are the dates when in-person early voting starts in the most of the swing states:
September 27th, Iowa - Voters can start casting in person absentee ballots.
October 2nd, Ohio – In person early voting begins.
October 18th, North Carolina – In person early voting begins.
October 20th, Nevada – In person early voting begins.
October 22nd, Colorado – In person early voting begins.
October 27th, Florida – In person early voting begins.
In addition to early voting, there is also voting-by-mail. Many of those ballots will be mailed out in the next few weeks, well in advance of the official election day.
Early voting is extremely popular and in many important swing states a majority of votes will likely be cast before November 6th. For example in 2008, early voting accounted for 51.8% of the vote in Florida, 60.6% in North Carolina, 66.9% of the vote in Nevada and a remarkable 78.9 percent in Colorado.
In reality Romney has probably less than a month to make up a several point deficit before a significant portion of the vote is already cast in many of his must-win states.
Graphic by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com under Creative Commons License
36 Comments
His campaign is in flames and he feeds the fire every time he opens his mouth.
He’s been in denial about how awful his campaign has been. Or he’s lied about that, in addition to everything else.
He and his campaign have been in denial about not being in a “dead heat with an incumbent President. Or they’ve all lied about that, in addition to everything else.
Perhaps they are in denial about the calendar as well.
The ad i was just served at the top of the comments says in BIG letters: BREAKING NEWS: DEMOCRATS VOTING FOR ROMNEY. Sponsored by the ENDING SPENDING ACTION FUND.
I’m thinking the Adbot didn’t actually read Jon’s post. :-)
I know Rmoney lost two votes in my neighborhood over the weekend. Dunno if Obama picked ‘em up or if they’re going to be no-shows. And these are people who have a Josh Mandel for Senate sign in their yard.
I was right that one thing would cause Ohio to decide. It looks like Rmoney’s 43% comment is doing it.
Boxturtle (The superpacs were still spending money in Ohio yesterday. Rmoney ain’t out yet)
Damn those no post readin’ adbots!
Romney should be out. He is a disgrace, his campaign is a disgrace and so is his wife. What awful people these are. It’s embarrassing to have the world see them.
I’m hopeful that this year’s campaign means that no GOPer can be elected president. If he manages to satisify the Tea Party wing, he’ll be poison to the swing voters. Likewise, if he satisifies the swing voters he’ll never make it out of the primary.
I had my first walker this weekend. Dunno if he was GOP or Dem, LOOKED like GOP though I suppose a Dem walker might have worn a suit and a flag lapel pin. In either case he cared more for his suit than his candidate, as the dogs were waiting at the edge of the invisable fence to give him a big, muddy hello.
Boxturtle (Dogs are strictly non-partisen)
Yeah and I’ve heard it thought the grapevine that Obama is going to use this congress in the “lame duck” session to ram thru cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, foodstamps, air, water etc.
I always said this congress we have now is the one Obama wanted so he could cry about “obstruction” while making backroom deal s to screw US to the wall for the Fed, IMF, Goldman etc.
But this lame duck session is gonna PROVE it.
Obama May Do Social Security Reform During Lame Duck Session, Senate Democrats Worry
A British writer during Mitt’s England visit made a comment like “You are a nation of 200+ Million and these two are the best you have to offer?”
Boxturtle (My response: You should see the ones we rejected!)
The mention of dogs on a Romney post is a delicate affair.
Best comment I read about the airplane window gaffe is that if windows did open, it’d be like the Mile High Club for Seamus.
To which I reply: Mitt loves his wife as much as his dog, anyone can see that!
Good afternoon (from my timely, or “continental”, perspective), Twain. I consider that this Howard Fineman article adds to BoxTurtle’s comment @8 and does little to diminish the “embarrassment”, overall.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howard-fineman/barack-obama-floating-like-a-butterfly_b_1911017.html
It is well worth a read and some wee ponderation.
;~DW
Not to worry. Romney has faith in the overall ignorance of the U.S. electorate.
Logan’s Law: if MSNBC and Huffington Post think Obama can’t lose, Obama can’t win.
http://youtu.be/lB95a2cEeHw
Frankly, dosido, I have come to consider that those of Romney’s “ilk”, indeed the entire political class, ought to have airplanes with convertible tops … that the lowly masses might have the pleasure of looking upon their betters as they fly, overhead, out of touch, above it all, and close to heaven …
;~DW
And with the repulsively hypocritical RE-ELECTION OF Barack Obama by his cult, TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR THE REST OF US.
I really don’t think time is running out for Mittens. If Obama had been an effective President, albeit conservative, there would be no contest. Jon, I think you already noted the failings on the economic front yesterday. I’m waiting to see if he can ambush O at the debates like why in the world would we cut spending now Mr President? I want to hear his answer. He’d have to answer it then. Now he just talks about his fucking grand bargain.
See comment #7 for more info on this……..
I live in Wisconsin and I already voted. And it sure wasn’t for Romney/Ryan….nor Tommy Thomson. One of the worst Governors in our history, but a lot better then Walker!
It is all over but the counting!
The only way Romney/Ryan wins is “VOTER SUPPRESSION”!
If the American electorate weren’t the same folks that enjoy Stars Earn Stripes, Survivor, American Idol, and Here Comes Honey Boo Boo… I’d say you’re right.
But they are, so you’re not. Sadly.
Willard figures he’ll win with the Supremes. The refs last night just showed him how, by stealing. And the schepple will roll over and accept it.
Obviously, each week goes by and Mittens stays behind in the polls makes it harder for him to pull it out. But I don’t think we are there yet. Besides most of the Honey Boo Boo crowd prolly doesn’t vote. Then again I’m nor sure who they vote for.
He couldn’t win with the Supremes, Temptations and the Four Tops combined!
10 days, 20 days, 30 days, 42 days??? It doesn’t matter. . .
Does anyone actually belief if Romney just had a few more days before voting starts that he’d win?
People will either Vote or Not Vote. I don’t think there’s enough people voting early that end up voting for President Obama, and then a few days later say, boy I wish I had my vote back, I’d really like Romney to win.
One thing I’d like to know though,
If I vote mail in absentee, can I still show up on election day and vote in person? … do they check that?
The Honey Boo Boo crowd are the same neoconservative, gun-toting, Tea Party crowd that votes Republican regularly. They don’t care that Mittens doesn’t understand cabin pressure, the Social Safety net, or even how to tie his own shoes. They just care that he’s not the Scary Black Muslim Gun Grabber Queer that’s currently in the White House.
At least that’s the way that the folks I’ve talked to see it. They’re truly scary. Someone tried to tell me the other day that if Obama wins the election, he’s promised to institute National Sharia Law. Are you fucking kidding me?!
Time was never Running “In” For Romney.
You nailed it. To be redundant, my rightwing family is actually well-educated, reasonably sophisticated (on some levels) and have travel widely (in North & Central America & Europe at least), yet they have been *convinced* by their Doug Coe “Family” church “pastors” that if Obama “wins” in 2012, they will have Sharia Law rammed down their throats.
What better way for conservatives who LOOOOOOVE to victimize themselves, than to constantly play “Onward Chirstians Soldiers” in their minds 24/7/365… makes ‘em feel just like all those “early Xtians” who were persecuted “for their faith.”
We’re not talking logic or reality here, and yes, this is heavily laced with bigotry & racism, even though my family would strenuously deny it.
It’s pretty frightening to contemplate just how profoundly brainwashed a lot of citizens have become. sigh…
Well I hate to break the news to to you, but in the only votes that count, Mitt is in the lead:
Republican poll analysis: Romney winning with middle-class families
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81584.html
All those other voters have been flagged for automatic deletion by the smart Diebold units.
I think “time” is running for RMoney & DMoney just how the PTB want it to… JMHO, of course.
way to cherry pick that article…good job.
Yes. We are coming to get you. In fact…WE ARE ALREADY IN YOUR HOUSE!
So you agree then. The Mittens is not out of this thing?
Just need to take his gun away.
I realize that your post is in jest. This cherry-picked analysis with no methodology or numbers or attribution is the most amazing piece of whistling past the graveyard I have seen to date. Baghdad Bob sounded pessimistic by comparison to this. By publishing this crap, Politico has surrendered any vestige of credibility.
If only the GOP pollsters and cheerleaders who will be shown wrong soon would accept that they are terrible at the craft and go away forever. Unfortunately, in the modern GOP, failure merely boosts you to the next upward rung.
Well, there IS that…
People like Romney don’t lose well. They have the inflated ego to think they can do the job but they don’t have the humility and stomach to lose.
Will he just retreat off the field and leave it to Rovian Jim Crow, Waukesha Republican scavenger hunts and Diebold mathmatics to prevent a whooping Obama mandate? Any bets on when Romney goes on vacation? Nov. 1 or Nov. 5 or even before the polling day?
Ok I yield to your superior knowledge of the Honey Boo crowd. But despite that Jon says here time is running out for mittens. I don’t happen to think so. So your Honey Boo Boo crowd apparently is not helping mittens and you disagree with Jon?
I never would have thought that the Honey Boo Boo crowd would even have bothered to vote. But as I said I don’t really know who those people are.