Voters line up in front of the Yonkers Public Library in Yonkers, N.Y., on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020 as the first day of early voting in the presidential election begins across New York state.
The result is a total of 58.6 million ballots cast so far, more than the 58 million that The Associated Press logged as being cast through the mail or at in-person early voting sites in 2016.Democrats have continued to dominate the initial balloting, but Republicans are narrowing the gap. GOP voters have begun to show up as early in-person voting, a sign that many heeded President Donald Trump’s unfounded warnings about mail-voting fraud.
Analysts said the still sizable Democratic turnout puts extra pressure on the Republican Party to push its voters out in the final week and, especially, on Nov. 3. That’s especially clear in closely contested states such as Florida, Nevada and North Carolina. “At some point, Republicans have to vote,” said Michael McDonald, a University of Florida political scientist who tracks early voting on ElectProject.org. “You can’t force everyone through a vote center on Election Day. Are you going to expect all those Republicans to stand in line for eight hours?”Campaigns typically push their voters to cast ballots early so they can focus scarce resources chasing more marginal voters as the days tick down to Election Day.
That split in voting behavior — Democrats voting early, Republicans on Election Day — has led some Democrats to worry about Trump declaring victory because early votes are counted last in Rust Belt battlegrounds. But they’re counted swiftly in swing states such as Arizona, Florida and North Carolina, which may balance out which party seems ahead on election night.
Early voting is not the same as mail-in or drop-off ballots. Many of these will be invalidated or counted too late to matter. Lumping them together in a single statistic makes it seem like they count the same, and they should, but they don't.
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I don’t know why this is a surprising statistic. Of course more people have early voted/mail voted - we are in the middle of a communicable disease pandemic - regardless of party the safe and reasonable thing to do is vote early/mail to avoid long lines and crowds. 🤷♀️
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Love this massive voter turnout. People really care about this election.
What’s even more amazing, is that while GOP ballots might be closing the gap, what we know to be true, is there are many more registered Republicans voting for Biden, than registered Democrats voting for Trump.
Do you think the surge of early voters is primarily Democratic or Republican? I’m in a blue bubble, so in my mind everyone is out there supporting Biden. But are Trumpers turning out in such big numbers too?
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People also need to ask... how many registered Republicans are voting blue? That's not going to show in these early numbers, but there is a decent percentage that is.
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Maybe because they do not want to wait in line on election day.
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realDonaldTrump you said you might leave the country if you lose. Start packing because the indictments will come quickly after January 20th.
'Republicans insist that they will make up ground on Election Day.' If they're not too sick that is.
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maggieNYT What day are we going to have more votes than we have 'eligible voter people in the United States
SWhyno All in spite of a WuFlu pandemic and 'historic levels of voter suppression'...
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lol, why polls should be ignored. Vote!
Early voting will top 100mil
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American system is broken. People should not have to stay in line as such to exercise their right. Worst Republicans in order to steal the election is making it worst.
Absolutely misleading title of article. You didn’t mention anything to support the allegation that the gop was cutting into the dem lead. Also no mention of independent vote.
Piss off with your endless Trump-friendly framing.
What a stupid headline
AMAZING what a TRUE National Leader can do when they are HONEST with their people. The President continues to fail badly, Joe WILL BE EXPECTED to find a way to achieve the same results as Jacinda Ardern has. With 60 Million Americans already voting, we expect positive RESULTS!
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Or, as MangoMussolini calls it; voter fraud.
The U.S. population increased by millions, so...
Who cares what the numbers are...Please VOTE!
I’ll be voting in person on November 3rd. No line will be too long for me. I’ll stand there all day if I have to.
I voted early in Kansas. My thought being I would of been upset had I gotten sick and not been able to vote on 11/03. Sad a lot of people have to wait hours to vote. It took me 15 minutes tops.
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“The early vote totals, reported by state and local election officials and tracked by the AP, are an imperfect indicator of which party may be leading. The data only shows party registration, not which candidate voters support.” Link byline is click-baiting
Wow that's huge
It kind of obvious that number has surpassed 2016. Absentee voting has never been pushed so hard either. If it didn’t surpass 2016, somebody wasted a boat load of money for nothing.
shannonrwatts The thing is... a lot of Republican voters are voting for BIDEN. I hear it in the conservative FL retirement neighborhood I live in. Voted for Trump last time, voting for Biden this time. Tired of the lies and the chaos - want decency. VoteEarly SundayGame decencymatters
CarlMacGowan The enthusiasm gap is going to hard for Dems to over come. Love is more powerful than hate.
maggieNYT Why is this news? There is a pandemic on, thus why early voting numbers are high.
This is beautiful to see, no matter what side you're on.
davidpsdem Holy horse race bullshit headline
People want change.
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maggieNYT GOP is NOT winning anything
maggieNYT 139,000,000 voted in 2016. We have a ways to go.
Yessss, I got a lot of you MAGAs saved on my blocklist so I can rub your nose in it on November the 3rd. Surf’s up! 🏄🏻♂️ 🌊
maggieNYT Think people want to make their voice heard?
Not to make anyone else feel old, but if you are in your late ‘60, the number of votes in 2020 could very well turn out to be more than the US population when you were born.
You are not counting the independent voters- majority of them 60-70% of them will vote for Biden. This number has not been reflected.
MattMurph24 if trump loses, barrett will be an illigetimate SCOTUS pick per The People of the United States of Anmerica, and she must be removed. Also, she cannot be allowed to have a say in the outcome of the election.
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Trump won again.
Keep dreaming these are DemocRAT votes
Disregard all of the statistics... The only thing that matters is our VOTE...
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Lame headline. GOP is slowly making up ground but still way behind, NOT gaining.
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maggieNYT Again TX opened a week early lets compare apples to apples people stop being lazy
Biden easy win
This story says nothing about GOP slowly gaining as the headline implies? Kind of odd...
Vote, the sooner the better, but vote
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DeepState_sat No freaking way they are coming out like this for Trump. Not after four years of abominations.
apyus BS headline 'GOP slowly gaining' More like AP is slowly learning how to be be journalists.
This headline is utter clickbait crap. They’re not “closing the gap.”
Yep... and 35% of them cast more than one ballot or a fraudulent ballot. We should have this figured out by June or so. I will be voting the way it was designed to happen... On Nov 3 in person. WITH my ID.
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I voted early in case I die of covid before nov 3.
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Record Breaking 2020 Election The 2020 POTUS election will break all records in 🇺🇸 history. It will set an unparalleled new standard. More Americans will vote in the next 9 days than we thought was humanly possible. The thirst for the right to vote is truly insatiable. VOTE!
If you want to see change, you gotta VOTE 4 change.
Hopefully this will be JoeBiden walking into the WH on 1/21/21! 👇🏻 Let's do this America!! VoteEarly VOTE 🇺🇸
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