Early voting high in rural and republican areas

[Proud liberal 80]

People think this means more trump voters are voting in these areas, but I think it means that Democrats who normally don’t vote because they feel as if their votes won’t matter in a heavily red area are voting....and it’s all about margins...so instead of Trump winning these ares 70-30, he will only win them 60-40

[Mike Nelson]

1. Could...

... also be Republicans like Steve Schmidt, Nicolle Wallace, John Kasich, and Cindy McCain...

[Iliyah]

2. POC live in rural areas as well . ...

[rockfordfile]

3. Yeah the right-wingers are voting

[Proud liberal 80]

4. But I think they have always voted

These new voters are in these areas aren’t necessarily voting Republican...just my theory

[Amishman]

5. Yup, their turnout is way high too. Independents breaking our way is the winner

I expect Trump to get 5 to 7 million more votes than 2016 - and still lose 'bigly'

[WyattKansas]

6. 2016 was under performed by the Democratic base and Republicans energized their base with...

A long time hated opponent and potential picks due for Judges. In the last four years, tRUMP has chased away votes for him and made himself unpopular with a lot of Republicans. Meanwhile the Democratic base is fired up and ready to FIRE tRUMP everywhere across the country and they only get more determined to vote as obstacles are thrown up in front of them. Independents now know this country cannot survive another 4 years of tRUMP and Republicans.

tRUMP and Republicans have cannibalized their entire voting potential, just to feed their rabid base, while losing voters in every area. The Democratic Party has it's base supercharged, picked up a majority of Independents, and even picked up many Republican voters. tRUMP squeaked out victories in key States the last election, but is well behind in those same States now and is in trouble with traditionally Red States. If somehow up is down again and black is white, then where in the Hell did any allegedly new tRUMP and Republican voters come from to make that happen?.. It could only mean that tRUMP and Republicans defrauded voters with or without Russian help.

[Cicada]

7. Some places record the party of those who voted

That can provide the answer to whether the high early voting is for Trump or Biden

[Kaleva]

8. But it can't tell you if that Repub voted for Trump or Biden or other.

[pstokely]

9. what hidden or shy Biden voters?

haven't heard anything about those while we hear about hidden or shy tRump voters?

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

10. Only 19.3% of the US population resides in rural areas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_areas_in_the_United_States

And there's this:

Texas has added 1.8 million registered voters. Where they are shows how the state has become more competitive.

Most of the new voters registered in the state's fast-growing urban counties or suburbs.

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/30/texas-toss-up-voters/

[yardwork]

11. Unfortunately, those rural voters are way over represented in our election system.

Two senators from every state means that the U.S. Senate greatly over represents rural voters.

California has almost 40 million people. Montana has one million. They both have two senators voting on the laws that affect us all.

Trump would have been removed from office last February if our system was more democratic.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

13. True. Of course.

What we need to do is to override the Republican rural vote, wherever we can, in order to win the Senate.

We know we're never going to win Wyoming, Idaho, or most Bible Belt states.

But we can win Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania.

[yardwork]

14. If Democrats take control of Congress and the White House, we MUST make changes.

Nothing less than drastic change will save our democracy.

[Ace Rothstein]

17. Georgia will be a blue state within a decade and NC probably as well.

Maybe SC some time after that.

[Kaleva]

18. California has many times more electors then any rural state.

California has 55 electors. About 1/5th of what is needed to win the election.

[yardwork]

21. I realize that. But in terms of representation in the Senate, the people in CA are underrepresented.

[Kaleva]

22. that would be a problem with representation and not of the elections itself

[DeminPennswoods]

12. The republican/conservative areas always vote

in big numbers. If my home county is any indication, in 2016, the R areas voted about 10-15% points higher than D areas. In my R precinct, turnout was nearly 80% of all registered voters.

[yardwork]

15. Churches encourage their congregations to vote, and it's always Republican.

[milestogo]

16. It takes a huge number of rural Republicans to add up to one big Democratic city...

If we turn out there really are more of us.

That said, Repukes are very good at GOTV.

[Kaleva]

19. Yep.

[SKKY]

20. And younger voters. If the Biden/Harris ticket wins, I have a sense the...

...final chapter of this campaign will be one of how the young vote turned out in huge number not for Biden necessarily, but against Trump and Trumpism in general. Just a hunch.