Apparently, voting is already underway! North Carolina has already sent out absentee voting ballots to those who requested them. North Carolina is a battleground state.
Hard to read those stats. How many Democrats who applied for early voting ballots are Sanders voters who might vote against Clinton and how many Republicans will desert Trump? My guess is that Trump will lose more defectors than Clinton. And the 28% who aren't identified with those 2 parties exceeds the 10-15% opinion polls suggest will vote for 3rd party candidates, meaning there's a lot of swinging voters.
Next week, ballots will be mailed out to overseas military personnel and battleground states Wisconsin, Virginia and Iowa will mail out theirs before the end of the month.
Of course, voters don't have to return their ballots early. But if they do, later developments become less important and Trump's decision to defer running ads might have been an error.
Quote:In a possible sign of increased interest, 34,788 voters as of Friday had requested absentee ballots, according to the North Carolina State Board of Elections, up from about 25,600 from a similar timeframe in 2012. Broken down by party, the requests were somewhat evenly divided — 37 percent Democrat to 35 percent Republican and 28 percent who were unaffiliated with a party. Ballots were being mailed Friday with votes likely to start arriving in the coming days.https://www.apnews.com/a0a6c4220d204a28869b54b8e7906720
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The stakes are high: Voters who cast ballots in advance are expected to make up between 50 to 75 percent or more of all ballots in the battlegrounds of North Carolina, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, Arizona and Georgia, according to data compiled by The Associated Press.
Hard to read those stats. How many Democrats who applied for early voting ballots are Sanders voters who might vote against Clinton and how many Republicans will desert Trump? My guess is that Trump will lose more defectors than Clinton. And the 28% who aren't identified with those 2 parties exceeds the 10-15% opinion polls suggest will vote for 3rd party candidates, meaning there's a lot of swinging voters.
Next week, ballots will be mailed out to overseas military personnel and battleground states Wisconsin, Virginia and Iowa will mail out theirs before the end of the month.
Of course, voters don't have to return their ballots early. But if they do, later developments become less important and Trump's decision to defer running ads might have been an error.