44% of California primary voters will vote BEFORE the primary. Consider the implications...
I just heard on ABC radio in San Francisco that an estimated 44% of California primary voters will vote absentee. Some will be voting THIS WEEK.
Think of the implications of that. How can Clinton hope to regain momentum in California if voters here are already casting their ballots during the Obama surge? I expect to get my ballot within a week or two and will be enthusiastically voting for Obama!
in the entire state of California? Bit of a stretch to say that. I could see if you were in a AMVETS hall or something, but to think there's not people excited to vote for Obama, Clinton and Edwards in California would be extremely shortsighted.
But Hillary has been leading in CA polls forever...which I never understood. So I find this disturbing. I know a couple that voted early last week before Iowa Caucuses here in SC for Richardson...And I was thinking...He probably won't even be in the race by then. Why do people do that????
3. I got a reminder in the mail today that we can vote here starting Jan 16th. Early
voting has been huge in past years, because the biggest early voting site is in THE MALL, lol. Lots of older people use it to avoid the lines. It does bother me that people could be voting next week and there has been not one shred of advertising here or campaigning for anyone. Expectations are that only 1 in 6 registered voters will vote in the primary. I hope those stats are wrong and we can get momentum in the Feb 5th states.
For a long time Howard Dean was winning and all of a sudden Kerry won Iowa and then he was leading in the polls here. California will vote for whoever has the momentum. Since Obama has enough money to compete with Hillary for TV ads, that shouldn't be a problem. I can't picture Bay Area primary voters voting for a person who voted for the war over someone who opposed it.
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