From a local TV station.
I am not shocked about the state count, but for Miami-Dade to have more Republicans Voting Early an by Mail than Democrats?
Hillary won 2-1 in Miami-Dade in the last election. For argument’s sake, let’s say that party identity equals a vote for each candidate. That would mean that in just early voting today, President Trump already scored one third of the votes he got last election in the county.
Trump won Florida by 112,911 votes even after losing bad in Miami-Dade which happens to be the most populated county of the State. I was truly expecting a close win for Biden which would have nulled any advantage he could have had in the rest of the state. (update: I forgot to say that Miami Dade has not voted for a Republican President since George Herbert Bush 44 years ago. )
If the numbers hold and he wins the county, I believe the whole state will turn solidly red as in deep crimson hemorrhagic red.
And Broward? Well, they elected Wasserman Schulz and Former disgraced Sheriff Scott Israel and some even supported his re-election effort! Broward county is just another borough of New York City. (OK, not quite. They get to conceal carry too)
I have been saying for years now that I expect Pres. Trump to win every Electoral College vote, bar California and DC. Maybe he’ll loose one of Maine’s as they award their electors in a way that allows for a split.
Even if that doesn’t happen, I do expect a lot of people to suddenly sour on the whole National Populat Vote Compact as soon as the results are in.
RE: The “National Popular Vote Compact” —
A terrible idea from the get-go. You and I are in Oregon. Our votes generally count for jack-squat to begin with.
But I find the idea of the population centers in New York and California deciding who my vote counts for, to be offensive in the extreme.
My vote, as a conservative in Oregon, is already drowned out by Multnomah County (for those unaware, think “Portlandia”), but at least it’s still decided in Oregon. I’ll be damned if Pelosi voters in San Francisco and de Blasio voters in New York City get to decide which candidate gets my support!
And I have no idea what would possess a person to think that’s a good idea, but they won’t get the message until the shoe’s on the other foot and their Democrat vote goes to Trump, because “Popular Vote”.
No joke, Trump came in third place in my precinct in the 2016 general election.
As an Oregonian East of the Cascades my fervent hope is just that. I want to watch heads explode as Oregon is flipped Republican because of this vindictive legislative abomination
As a Portlander, I just want someone who isn’t a goddamn fangirl of MAO ZEDONG to be our mayor. Turns out John Lennon was wrong, you can go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao and make it with everyone anyhow.
Ish, doesn’t Oregon allow write-ins? It seems easy for a suitable R candidate to put up signs everywhere saying “write me in for mayor”.
Write ins don’t win often, but they do at times. I read a while ago that Sen. Murkowsky (R-AK) first won as a write-in.
@Slow Joe Crow: If/when that happens, I half expect the legislation to be amended to say “popular vote stands if the Democrat gets the popular vote, electoral votes stand if the Republican gets the popular vote”.
@Ish: Salemite here. Our mayor’s OK; we don’t hear from him much (which is just fine by me). I just want a Governor who doesn’t have a combination middle-child/inferiority complex when it comes to California and Washington. Who in their right mind would look at all the dysfunction in Seattle (CHAZ/CHOP) and San Francisco (streets becoming open sewers, unconstrained homeless drug use), and all the water shortages and wildfires of California in general, and want to emulate all that here?
Two hour wait for early voting here in suburban Cincinnati.
Just proves they don’t have water in Broward County.
The pipes are filled with Kool-Aid.
Well, the have been having serious issues with bursting sewage pipes for at least a couple of years… no kidding.
It is generally the left side of the political aisle that keeps blaring on about voting early. And this year, they were the cheerleaders for registering to vote as well.
For whatever reason, they think more registered voters and more early voting helps the left. Yet, most of what I see this year is that more voters, and more early voting seems to be favoring the right side of the political aisle.
As with most other things the left thinks are fabulous ideas, I bet this backfires on them, and they start trying to roll it back.
The Channel 4 graphic is the voted early stat. There’s a whole other stat that applies to mail-in ballots and it shows Dems up by something like 78K in Miami-Dade.
https://countyballotfiles.floridados.gov/VoteByMailEarlyVotingReports/PublicStats
Thanks for that! Both combined give (today) Democrats 298,086 versus Republicans at 218,246. or only 79,840 votes ahead.
Not enough to secure Florida if the numbers repeat. They would need close to a 250K to 300K advantage in Miami Dade