160000 ballots were mailed in early in Indiana!

[thewiseguy]

That is probably close to 15% of all likely voters in today's primary. Large number of those ballots came from strong Obama counties of Marion, Lake, and Monroe.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080506/pl_politico/10111

This is in contrast with SUSA's polling results where only 3% of their respondents said that they had voted early and Hillary was leading those who had voted early by 20 points.

This will be a good read that would offer insight to numbers on tonight's primary in Indiana:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080506/pl_politico/10111

[burythehatchet]

1. "casted"? really?

[thewiseguy]

2. Sorry I meant to say mailed in.

[smalll]

7. LOL -

:rofl: Nothing cuter than a clueless young Obamatron.

[thewiseguy]

10. "clueless young Obamatron" ?

:eyes:

[jakem]

11. no need to be a jerk.

[newmajority]

14. Says the Hillbot who can't spell "small"

I think we know who the clueless young ones are around here.

[kmsarvis]

15. OBNOXIOUS!!!!!!!!

[LakeSamish706]

17. And nothing uglier than a Clinton supporter with a sharp tong. n/t

[burythehatchet]

18. nothing scarier than a Hillaroid's ROFL without a straightjacket

[Starbucks Anarchist]

19. No, this is clueless:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4753960&mesg_id=4754198

[smalll]

22. Nice to know I have fans!

:hi:

[lojasmo]

20. nothing uglier than a math deficient, clueless hillbot.

[thereismore]

5. Yeah well, Indianans casted. nt

[aquamarina]

3. Two of those early voters were my parents and both

went to Obama.

[democrattotheend]

6. Yay! Welcome to DU.

I assume you are for Obama too...either way, welcome.

[aquamarina]

12. I sure am . Thanks also for the welcome but I've

been a member since 2002 - just not a prolific poster.

[Bolo Boffin]

4. Typo: the ballots were cast, not casted.

Easy fix.

[whistle]

8. 160,000 or 1,600,000 the first is roughly 3.0% of registered voters

...while the latter is 30.0% based on a claim of 5.3 million registered voters

[thewiseguy]

13. 2.2 million voted in the Pennsylvania primary.

I suspect 1.3 will vote in indiana.

Their turnout for the last primary was 20%.

[MadBadger]

16. The 3% number is supposed to be relative to likely voters, not registered voters

Meaning 3% of the survey were early voters. Thats what is so off about it.

[Jack Bone]

9. 3 weekends ago, that was the intent of our canvass...

Vote Early!! It's good to see that those efforts paid off!:patriot:

[whistle]

21. Actually the only 160,000 votes I've heard about in Indiana were mail-ins

...thus considered absentee votes and that number would sound about right