CO will play a key role if we see a re-run of 2002, where Republicans took back the US Senate. That’s James Carville’s head under the trash can. It likely was a bad night for him.
As always, PeakNation™, we will bring you the daily ballot returns from now until the election.
Today is the first day that ballots returns were released. The vote count, as published by the Colorado Secretary of State’s office today, shows the Republicans with a wide lead in the earliest ballots processed during this first week of the state’s all-mail election. With 27,640 ballots counted, 12,766 were cast by Republicans, 8,714 were cast by Democrats, 5,864 were cast by unaffiliated voters, and the remainder were cast by members of smaller political parties.
To put this in perspective, these numbers represent 46.5% more Republican ballots than Democrat ballots. With Democrat and Republican voter registration nearly equal in the state, perhaps there is a meaningful enthusiasm gap out there.
No one will deny that these are very early numbers, and we have very light data from Democrat strongholds such as Denver and Boulder (149 and 375 total votes, respectively), But Republicans hold a commanding early lead in the bellwether (as recently labeled by a left-wing blog) Jefferson County, with 37.7% more Republican ballots cast than Democrat ballots out of a total of 6,126 votes cast in the county.
Republicans also look strong in the critical Denver suburbs of Arapahoe and Douglas Counties. In Douglas County, Republican ballots cast are more than triple those of the Democrats (2,429 to 788). In Arapahoe County, Republicans turned in 36.4% more ballots than Democrats.
Walking precincts this AM, I would confirm this trend in my neighborhood. Normally, my experience is that D ballots go early and R ballots go late. Today, many people can not wait to get their vote in.
regardless, it is unlikely that any Republicans are voting for democrats. However I would bet a lot of dems will be voting for Republicans this election cycle.
The SEIU /democrat machine goes door to door collecting ballots and turns them in the last 4 days. Don't get confident- we need to work all the way till 7pm Election Day.
THIS IS SLOPPY REPORTING: This is not "VOTE COUNT". This is Ballot count… not vote count. At this point unopened ballots are checked in and will not be opened until later.. even when opened and scanned to an flat file, the contents will not be totaled until 7:30 on November 4.
Don't get your hopes up. Democrats spend most of what little intellectual capacity they possess scheming to steal elections.
I hope the GOP watches who counts these ballots. Dems have cheated since the days of Boss Tweed and this election will be no different.
Keep pissing off the gun-owner voting block, knuckleheads. How quickly they forget 1994.
The cemetary vote comes in later, so don't get excited.
Interesting… My "group" is hanging back… I'm going to hand deliver mine.
Have they declared any winners yet? Surely the polls indicate facts and with 0% of the ballots "just in", they have already decided who won.