Comments on: Pew: Obama Leads By 19 Among Already Voted

By: krunvisaurus

krunvisaurus — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:25:10 +0000

Joe, you a fake plumber by any chance? and how much is that meth addiction costing you?

By: Justin Gardner

Justin Gardner — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:56:23 +0000

Split Party Household,

You could be right. We’ll see on election day.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:46:11 +0000

Are McCain supporters so naive to think that Obama supporters aren’t going to vote because of these preliminary figures? The Obama campaign, which many have claimed to be the greatest campaign ever run in modern day politics, is relentless in getting out the message that every vote counts, regardless of the margin. If anything, these types of reports will discourage McCain supporters who already know their man is down as much as 14% in national polls, and down roughly 200 electoral votes, from wasting their time to go out and vote for McCain. Nobody wants to be associated with the losing team.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:10:10 +0000

Split-Party Household “How can you put any credence on something that shows voters broken down like this:

Republicans: 361, Democrats: 490, Independents: 411″

That’s really not far off the true party id weightings at all. There should be more independents and less Democrats, but the numbers work out to 29, 39, 32 when they should be more like 28, 36, 36.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:11:59 +0000

This done and dusted attitude from Obama supporters will see McCain all the way into the Whitehouse.

By: Split-Party Household

Split-Party Household — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:20:06 +0000

These numbers mean absolutely nothing. In no way are these people anywhere near representative of the U.S. (or specific state) population. How can you put any credence on something that shows voters broken down like this:

Republicans: 361, Democrats: 490, Independents: 411

This is just another poorly thought out survey that people are latching onto like the gospel. As I said before, I will admit that Dems are more “passionate” this election which is showing in early voter turnout, but that does not mean that Republicans will not show up on Election Day. Additionally, I do not think it is fair to say that “early voting” is traditionally more Republican because there has never been as much opportunity for early voting as there is this year. I agree that absentee voting has favored Republicans in the past because much of it comes from the military, but those figures are not represented in this survey.

By: Trescml

Trescml — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:37:54 +0000

Although the data is interesting, I wonder why people who have already voted the numbers would be 53% to 34%. It’s not like you don’t know who you voted for. It will be interesting to see who those 13% that were neither actually voted for.

By: Lit3Bolt

Lit3Bolt — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:42:02 +0000

This is great news for John McCain.