Democrats kicking GOP ass in Broward County (FL) early voting

[Awsi Dooger]

Yeah, the same county with the AWOL absentee ballots. Democrats have accounted for more than 60% of the early voters and have returned 29,000 absentee ballots to 20,000 for the GOP.

This story is from the Friday edition of the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. I didn't paste the next to last parapraph, with a quote from world class POS Republican operative Mindy Tucker. Her assessment was typical and predictable: "It's a Democrat county. The question is how many are legal votes."

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-pcvote29oct29,0,3470331.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

"Overwhelming numbers of Broward County Democrats have turned out to vote early in next week's election in what analysts say could be a bad sign for President Bush's chances to win the state.

Sen. John Kerry's campaign has pressed hard to get voters to the polls early in Broward's Democratic strongholds, knowing it must run up huge numbers here to offset Republican areas in northern and central Florida. As of Thursday morning, more than twice as many Democrats as Republicans had either voted at early voting sites or returned absentee ballots."
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"Pre-election balloting has long been a boon to the Republican Party. To counter that this year, Democratic campaign strategists targeted key bases among minority, senior citizen and union groups. Kerry, Bush and their surrogates repeatedly have come to South Florida over the past two weeks to tout early voting."
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"Jim Kane, a bipartisan local pollster and editor of the Florida Voter newsletter, sees the trend as an early indicator that Kerry is on track to get the numbers he needs out of Broward. In 2000, Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore carried Broward by a 210,000-vote margin only to lose the state to Bush by 537 votes. "The Republicans are getting their butts kicked on getting out the vote," Kane said. "The Democrats are doing a much better job, and that doesn't bode well for Bush on the day of election."

[aquart]

1. Aww, be fair. It's not that the Republicans can't get out the vote.

It's that no one wants to vote for them.

[Davion]

2. If only everyone had received their ballots.... n/t

[sundancekid]

3. they too remember voting in that county in 2000--we're getting even (&mad)