Reply #16: You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.

[RaleighNCDUer]

Early voting is a new thing in most places. I'm not sure when NC started it - I pretty much ignored it because I actually like taking time off work to go to the polls on voting day - but I don't remember talk of it here before 04. Florida didn't start early voting until 04. Maryland passed the law for it in 06, but IIRC this year is the first that implements it. According to Wiki, just 16% of presidential votes were early voting in 2000, and 22% in 2004 - the article didn't give numbers of 06 and 08, but certainly, as more state adopt early voting the percentages went up.

And you don't need to put 'stolen' in fuckng quotes - 2000 WAS stolen, and that is obvious to anyone who had read the many, many dissections of that election. 2000 was stolen by fraud and intimidation, and the supremes preventing a full count of the ballots. 2002 was stolen by Diebold. 2004 was stolen by fraud and Diebold. They made a valiant attempt to steal 06, but higher than expected turnout - including early voting - overcame the level of fraud they thought they needed to win: despite numerous accounts of thousands of unaccounted-for votes appearing that threatened to turn it in favor of Repubs, enough real votes prevented their doing in 06 what they did in o4; despite some machines recording thousands more votes than there were registered voters, they screwed up their fraud by as little as 2%. Didn't hear much about it, because when the results match the expectation, nobody looks into fraud on the losers' side, but there were places where the Dem polled a solid 6-8 points higher than his opponent, but only won by a squeaker - in more than one case less than 1%.

But never mind that - it doesn't fit your narrative that THE DEMS ARE GOING TO LOSE!!!!! (Be afraid! Be Very Afraid!!)

It's obvious what makes YOU giddy.