Not talking about you. I'm talking about that trash article that has more spin cycles than a washer. An early vote and an election day vote is equivalent. To separate them because the total doesn't fit with the desired result is desperate.

It's funny that some Sanders groupies are buying into that narrative though. Crying about voter suppression (which they just discovered earlier this week, congratulations to them), while discrediting early voting, which is one of the biggest ways to fight said suppression. Mess.

He did acknowledge the strong bias of the article in his original post, to be fair.

He did, which is why I said my comments aren't about him. A lot of people are taking that article to heart and I was ranting about that.

Every viewpoint may not be in alignment with our narrative, but it's always a good chance to check out someone else's.

@Benzene Maybe in the future just try to be careful about designing who you're referring to. I have that issue a lot, seeming like I'm mad at a particular person when I'm talking generally about some topic.

Those were interesting, but not surprising

Sorry for the misunderstanding. I do agree with you on that point, early votes are important. However I do think it's important to see how well candidates are doing right now after campaigning compared to a month before.

What's the voting windows for states with early voting?

No problem, I should have been more clear.

People who vote early are generally people who have made up their minds...extra campaigning would be unlikely to sway them.

The windows vary by state, usually not earlier than a month out. Some states.don't have early voting at all.

I've seen a lot of people say Trump v Cruz would turn out more votes than Hillary v Bernie, and that because of all those Republican candidates, he lost votes which is why Hillary has more.

I completely disagree. Most of those people who voted in the Republican primary mainly want to stop him. He has a very poor favorability among Republicans. Hillary has a good favorability among Democrats. We honestly can't say what the numbers would look like had Rubio, Bush, etc. never been on the ballot.

I live in Arizona, and experienced the mess that was our Primary. People who don't live in understand, wouldn't get how our state has a reputation of 'election fraud'. We have the lowest local election turnout rates.

I waited 2 hours to spend not even 3 seconds crossing a line on the arrow for my designated candidate of choice. Two.... Hours.... In the Heat because there was no shade, and it was hooooot outside on Tuesday.

What they did was take 200 polling spots in Maricopa County (which we pretty much make up 80% of Arizona) to 60. Population breakdown, that's 108,000 voters at one precinct. I would love for ANYONE to try and tell me otherwise, but that alone was voter suppression. They somehow didn't put any polling stations near low income areas, and Latino neighborhoods, which I find disgusting and outrageous they would not put more polling places in areas ALL over, not just major "hot spots".

Oh, and our Democratic Party didn't UPDATE their voters list. So many people who changed parties, were declined to vote, because the system either never "changed" their party, or they were inputted into the incorrect party, and I believe one voter brought receipts and all for proof she did, indeed change her party way before the deadline. They got to vote via a provisional ballot, which, I don't even know if they COUNTED those yet.

CNN projected Hillary with only 1% in..... And we had thousands still in line waiting to vote. People were in line until 11:30- midnight. Like, absolute insanity.

Oh and the woman in charge of our state primary, an elected official, mind you, blamed the VOTERS for turning out. She said basically after that, "well, we have early voting for a reason"... Like, excuse me!?!? Unreal.

So, please, enlighten me HOW they can say we don't have rigged elections. Give me a ****ing break, anyone to try and say otherwise needs to seriously do some major history research. Shoot, has anyone even WATCHED CNN's "Race For The White House"?! Elections have been rigged for years. That's why we need to get away from third party electronic machines, how that is even allowed to be the counter of our votes is beyond me.


Just a mess. Severely disappointed with my states Election elected officials.

Yeah Arizona was terrible. I hope Hillary addresses it.
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Washington (polls close at 12PM CT) Alaska (1PM CT), Hawaii (6PM CT)

When I wake up, we should start having the results. YAS. No late nights.

All of Marco's 5 delegates from Louisiana are going to Cruz (he and Trump originally were tied with 18 delegates). And there are also 5 unbound delegates who say they will vote for Cruz. So that's 28 for Cruz, 18 for Trump.

Let the sabotage begin. Not Lightweight Rubio coming back to destroy Trump.

um she has an overall unfavorable rating since November.

That's among all voters. (mostly Republicans and conservative leaning-Independents) Most of the exit polls from all the primaries/caucuses that have voted so far say they will be satisfied with either her or Bernie winning the GE. The Democratic base does not hate her. She's winning for gods sake.

Yes she is overwhelmingly seen as dishonest and untrustworthy among Democrats, but she is seen as more electable and experienced which is what I was referring too.

Wait, so the polls close in Washington at 10AM PST?

And I agree, AZ was pretty shameful.

Yes, it's a caucus. It's early in the morning, but I doubt results will actually come in then because caucuses usually are a long process.

That might affect Bernie since college students won't like the 10AM deadline

Google has that number that polls close at 10am but that's a typo, they OPEN at 10am PDT

That's not true.

I think it's so close on Election Day because many of Clinton's voters have already used early voting. In most states where that was a thing it already counted for over 50% of votes and she usually has a huge lead in them, suggesting that a lot of her supporters don't need to show up to the polls if they have already voted early.

It would be interesting to see the totals released later for early voting and count the election day votes first though

That doesn't sound ideal at all.

It makes no sense why they'd cut the polling spots by so much.. What reasoning could they have had for that?