{"id":17990,"date":"2010-10-27T19:28:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T23:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=17990"},"modified":"2010-10-27T19:28:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T23:28:16","slug":"early-voting-what-does-it-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/10\/27\/early-voting-what-does-it-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Voting: What Does It Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1aBaX9GPSaQ<\/p>\n<p><em>Easily the funniest Simpson&#8217;s bit in more than a decade: Homer tries to vote for Obama on a rigged voting machine.\u00a0 (Click on the image above and hit the YouTube link.)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Michael P. McDonald has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/michael-p-mcdonald\/what-does-early-voting-te_b_774904.html\" target=\"_blank\">posted the numbers <\/a>for early voting in the midterms.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a complex situation with lots of variables, but the Democrats seem to enjoy the edge for those opting to vote early, which may be a good sign for overall voter turnout.\u00a0 I have seen suggestions that this phenomenon may be the Obama effect: his campaigning has been strong enough that he&#8217;s put people in the mood to vote early; particularly because, as we know, long lines seem always to occur exclusively in Democratic districts on election day, and that people of color are more susceptible to some form of harassment by local and state police when they try to get to the polls.\u00a0 As McDonald points out, this does not necessarily mean that Democrats will prevail on election day, but that it might not be the bloodletting that has Republicans<a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/10\/gingrich-no-tax-increases.html\" target=\"_blank\"> smacking their lips<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A sample from McDonald&#8217;s article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We appear to have entered a new era of early voting where Democrats  are the ones more likely to vote early. The 2010 early voting numbers  are better for Democrats than 2006 but are better for Republicans than  2008. Not surprisingly, Democrats are comparing the current numbers to  2006 while Republicans are comparing to 2008. We are likely somewhere  in-between 2006 and 2008, but we do not know by how much, which leaves  ample room for both parties to spin.<\/p>\n<p>If voting behavior changed in 2010, a hanging question is why? Why  would Democrats now be of the type more likely to vote early? I offer  two plausible explanations. First, that Democrats learned about early  voting options in their state and like using it. This may be  particularly true for states that offer in-person early voting at  special polling places, since there is plenty of evidence that this is  the favored voting method for Democrats. Second, that Democrats  developed early voter mobilization organizations in 2008 that they are  carrying forward to 2010. I suspect both explanations contribute to the  story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1aBaX9GPSaQ Easily the funniest Simpson&#8217;s bit in more than a decade: Homer tries to vote for Obama on a rigged voting machine.\u00a0 (Click on the image above and hit the YouTube link.) Michael P. McDonald has posted the numbers for early voting in the midterms.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a complex situation with lots of variables, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Early Voting: What Does It Mean? - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/10\/27\/early-voting-what-does-it-mean\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Early Voting: What Does It Mean? - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1aBaX9GPSaQ Easily the funniest Simpson&#8217;s bit in more than a decade: Homer tries to vote for Obama on a rigged voting machine.\u00a0 (Click on the image above and hit the YouTube link.) 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