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Turnout heavy everywhere — except Maryland? Update: GOP claims slight turnout advantage

posted at 4:57 pm on November 7, 2006 by Allahpundit
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Sizzlin’ hot turnout in the Show-Me State, the Nutmeg State, and whatever state Virginia is. CNN says the Webb-Allen contest could reach “historic” levels of voter participation, in fact, and that it’s heavy in both blue and red districts.

The only place it seems to be lagging is Steele country, where Ehrlich’s internal polls are showing lighter than expected turnout in their “key counties.” Which doesn’t bode well for everyone’s favorite Senate candidate.

Read this and see how much crap he had to eat while waiting in line to vote this morning. Nuance.

Here’s Lucianne Goldberg from Cavuto this afternoon relaying what she’s hearing. Optimism is catching!

Update: Good news — according to the Corner, O’Malley’s people are reporting low turnout in their precincts in Maryland, too. I’d link, but for some reason the text isn’t appearing on NRO’s permalinked pages right now.

Update: An e-mail from RNC HQ claims that the GOP turnout as a percentage of 2004 is slightly ahead of the Dems. Republican turnout is especially high in Connecticut and Virginia thus far.

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The only place it seems to be lagging is Steele country, where Ehrlich’s internal polls are showing lighter than expected turnout in their “key counties.” Which doesn’t bode well for everyone’s favorite Senate candidate.

Typical of former Democrat voters. On the actual election day they just won’t show up …

Niko on November 7, 2006 at 5:04 PM

Virginia is the “Old Dominion”

ronsfi on November 7, 2006 at 5:06 PM

Its been pouring in Maryland since about 10 am.

I hate that…..I guess they knew they’d fail my test and just stayed in the projects.

seejanemom on November 7, 2006 at 5:06 PM

O’Malley’s (Dem-running for MD gov against Ehrlich) people are also worried about turnout in the Fee State. So the lack of turnout seems to be worrying both sides at the gov level.

Bryan on November 7, 2006 at 5:06 PM

I’m always skeptical of what the media puts out on election day. Low turnout is usually a good thing for the Republicans so we will see as time goes on.

I’m still keeping the faith that we will prevail when the dust settles.

Scorched_Earth on November 7, 2006 at 5:07 PM

The video feed is …forgiveme…BOTCHED…can anyone else get it to play all the way through???

Allah—-fix the video, Mighty One.

seejanemom on November 7, 2006 at 5:09 PM

Virginia is the Old Dominion

ronsfi on November 7, 2006 at 5:09 PM

Don’t know if this will affect the election outcomes, but Britney Spears finally filed for divorce from that low life Kevin Federline. Seems like it may distract some from going to the polls.

bloggless on November 7, 2006 at 5:11 PM

“They’re just trying to trick us, but we know better,” exclaimed one elderly woman. She went on to explain that Steele’s great “trick” was not cutting to the front, but instead choosing to stand in line like everyone else.

Quick test: if the above makes sense – you just might be a liberal.

(Damn that Steele for not cutting in line!)

Yeah, now can we please focus on poor K-Fed. Let’s focus, people. Stick with what’s important. Let Canada deal with North Korea. They’re not busy.

Professor Blather on November 7, 2006 at 5:14 PM

“whatever state Virginia is” …. Virginia, for those amorous bloggers, pundits and commenters, is for Lovers.

darwin on November 7, 2006 at 5:14 PM

Virginia calls itself a commonwealth rather than a state. All the other states laugh at it behind its back.

db on November 7, 2006 at 5:15 PM

seejanemom, the video is working fine with me. I’m using IE

EFG on November 7, 2006 at 5:15 PM

Hannity just claimed that Maryland turnout was high?

Benaiah on November 7, 2006 at 5:17 PM

Doesn’t Massachusits (sic) call itself a commonwealth also? And Rhode Island?

EFG on November 7, 2006 at 5:17 PM

Courtesy of Wikipedia:

United States
See Commonwealth (United States) and Commonwealth (U.S. insular area).
Four states in the United States officially designate themselves “commonwealths”: Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
“Commonwealth” is also used in the U.S. to describe the political relationship between the United States and the overseas unincorporated territories of Puerto Rico and of the Northern Mariana Islands.

EFG on November 7, 2006 at 5:19 PM

MD has always had heavy voter traffic in the evening, especially in Prince Georges, Montgomery and Howard counties.

The Baltimore voter traffic will be heaviest OVERNIGHT!

chsw, ex-Marylander

chsw on November 7, 2006 at 5:19 PM

Don’t know if this will affect the election outcomes, but Britney Spears finally filed for divorce from that low life Kevin Federline. Seems like it may distract some from going to the polls.

bloggless on November 7, 2006 at 5:11 PM

It would only be soft-ish lefties that would be distracted by this–so it must be a good thing.

Doesn’t Massachusits (sic) call itself a commonwealth also? And Rhode Island?

EFG on November 7, 2006 at 5:17 PM

And Louisiana calls its counties parishes. Go figure.

urbancenturion on November 7, 2006 at 5:22 PM

seejanemom, the video is working fine with me. I’m using IE

EFG on November 7, 2006 at 5:15 PM

Good. I’m incompetant. Good to know.

seejanemom on November 7, 2006 at 5:23 PM

Optimism is catching!

Dude.

Stay strong. Think negative – dark clouds, dead puppies, Speaker Pelosi.

Pessimism.

Slublog on November 7, 2006 at 5:23 PM

I’m still firmly in the ‘lose the House, barely keep the Senate’ camp.

Slublog on November 7, 2006 at 5:24 PM

Oh and Virginia is for LOVERS…lovers of….wine, foliage, history, Liberals, HELLISH NIGHTMARE TRAFFIC…

seejanemom on November 7, 2006 at 5:25 PM

From the CNN article on Webb and Allen:

The Webb camp is hoping the heavy turnout has been driven by a combination of Allen’s self-inflicted wounds, the incumbent’s ties to the White House in a “change” election, as well well as the war in Iraq. Webb is a Vietnam veteran who wears the combat boots of his son, who’s serving in Iraq, and has called for a new direction.

Quick! Where is the liberal Vietnam veteran “absolute moral authority” card?

This is bad analysis from CNN. Fairfax County is marginally more liberal than conservative. For example, Kerry won something like 51-49, and my area of the county went for Bush. If turnout is as high as they are saying it is in conservative areas of Virginia, I would say this is bad news for Democrats. Rasmussen underestimated Republican turnout in 2004, saying Bush had 50%. In the end, it turned out to be 54%.

When there is low turnout Dems usually win in Virginia.

januarius on November 7, 2006 at 5:29 PM

JUST BACK from voting,
Poll Workers say turnout 20% increase from the LAST election turnout with 3 plus hours to go in voting, which would be a REMARKABLE turnout for ANY midterm election, beating the general election turnout is something else . This is in Bay County Fla, traditional Republican folk , district 4 for State of Fla ( Harris (R))

I think higher turnout is a plus for the republicans.
The talk of the crowd, by the way, was that “silver tongued devil”, John Kerry, and EVERYONE was irate, to say the least ( this region is SUPER strong pro military, also)

MAYBE just MAYBE !!!

colorfulbeachpersona on November 7, 2006 at 5:53 PM

What’s up with NRO? The Corner is empty as of an hour ago and TKS is a blank slate right now. Anybody hearing anything? I need my Corner fix. Just a taste, man, just a taste.

The Apologist on November 7, 2006 at 6:04 PM

seejanemom,
At work, our DSL is slooowwww … therefore, with these videos, I just click play, then pause, and go onto something else while the video loads completely. I don’t have to do that on my home pc, but here I sure do or it would be stopping and starting all the time.

This time it is not Allah’s fault :)

wytammic on November 7, 2006 at 6:05 PM

Tex is slow too……lots of people freaking out….nine browsers up on every screen……Dems pumping valium down their throats, Reps guzzling Crown Royal,….crashing cars,
neighbors blocking off streets, poll workers choking voters,
Michael Moore maning his bunker….it is the end of the world people….the end of the world. If AQ wanted to punch us now we would never see it coming.

Limerick on November 7, 2006 at 6:50 PM

seejanemom,
At work, our DSL is slooowwww … therefore, with these videos, I just click play, then pause, and go onto something else while the video loads completely. I don’t have to do that on my home pc, but here I sure do or it would be stopping and starting all the time

Thanks! You’re a peach!

seejanemom on November 7, 2006 at 8:25 PM

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