According to Dead Intern Joe, Republicans are winning in early voting numbers...

[regnaD kciN]

Don't want to be a concern troll, but I think this is important. DIJ just tweeted:

Republicans are doing better than Democrats in early voting -- and better than 2016.

Will the Democratic Party wake up in time? If not now, when??

(Sorry for not posting the tweet itself, but it came in over my phone while I was on the computer.)

Just a reminder, in case we didn't learn it two years ago: all the polls in the world don't mean a damn thing if our side stays home and their side doesn't. Right now, the Repugs are proving motivated to turn out. We damn well better do the same -- I don't want to wake up on 11/7 with the same sinking feeling I had two years ago.

[Cary]

1. "Dead Intern Joe" is so mean.

I love it.

[jberryhill]

2. Yeah, making a joke out of a tragic death is so funny

I’m always impressed at how everyone has figured this one out, but nobody in here own family seems to give a shit. You’d think they’d care more than assholes on the internet looking for cheap rhetorical shots.

[Cary]

4. Really?

I am always most impressed with sanctimonious and humorless internet posters takeong themselves too seriously.

Funny. Isn't it? <rolling eyeballs>

[renegade000]

3. I thought that story had been debunked...

Yes, Republicans were winning in "early vote" in a bunch of states where "early voting" either hadn't even started yet (so just absentees) or had only been going for a day or two (so absentees were still a larger proportion of the "early vote&quot ...

Absentee votes in those states are typically skewed GOP, so you really can't draw any conclusions...

[BSdetect]

5. But good old joe just can't help himself leaning to his roots

[brooklynite]

15. So, reporting something factually true is political bias?

If our voter turnout is below that of the Republicans, is the correct reponse:

1. Make a greater effort to turn out voters
2. Deny that it's happening and blame the reporter

[Vinca]

6. I wouldn't assume all Republicans are voting for Republicans.

Republican voters who support Obamacare are in the majority of Republican voters. If you had to choose between keeping your kid alive and Ted Cruz, which would you pick?

[Amishman]

13. I'd disagree. We won't see much R defections. We will see independents swing

Independents are the key.

They went Trump in 2016.

They are polling with a D lean this time.

And even a slight swing in Indy voting habits makes a huge difference as there are more independents than Republicans.

[treestar]

7. How many votes is that, relative to the whole

So stupid.

[USALiberal]

8. We look stupid using the dead intern phrase. What proof do you have??? Nt

[Oneironaut]

9. Assume that this is true, and GOTV. Tell your apathetic friends about this too.

Vote like your life depends on it, because it might.

[leftynyc]

10. That story was BS

and ONLY included blood red seats and states.

[Joe941]

11. This means nothing.

[Bengus81]

12. Early,early voting here means a trip downtown the Courthouse.....

Forget it,while there are some who do that most just wait until the next round of early voting which starts on Tuesday. You can vote at ANY polling location (I have one less than two miles away) and no need to plug a meter and hope it doesn't run out. I stopped voting by mail,I don't trust it.

So around here anyway there will be a huge jump in early voting starting Tuesday morning.

[obamanut2012]

14. The source they use included Florida

Which literally had just started early voted that morning.