Am I mistaken in my firm belief that those long, long lines of early...

[LAS14]

... voters are almost all Democrats? Democrats just waiting to kick Trump out of office?

What do you think?

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[Walleye]

1. My theory is that those who are wearing masks are Democrats for the most part.

[bluestarone]

4. SAD, that THIS is probably true

The MASK split us completely. Way to go America!

[Walleye]

5. It's definitely symbolic of something. I'm not sure exactly what

[PatSeg]

2. Yes, I'd say primarily Democrats

[a kennedy]

3. I so hope that is why the lines are so long.....

🤞🏻 🤞🏻 🤞🏻 🤞🏻 🤞🏻

[Mariana]

6. Not necessarily.

Some of my Trump-voting relatives and a bunch of their Trump-voting friends made a big deal about going out to vote on day one of early voting in their states.

[getagrip_already]

7. probably but the real question is.....

Are those people just voting earlier than they otherwise would have or are they new or occasional voters who didn't vote in 16........

Just shifting a vote from 11/3 to 10/13 doesn't get us an extra vote. It does get us THAT vote though.

We need as many votes as we can get - which means we need new voters and crossover voters.

Just moving the day reliable voters vote doesn't add votes. It does have benefits, by evening out the voter lines to allow more to vote later and by having those votes in the election offices on election day.

[LAS14]

10. It shows a degree of enthusiasm that wasn't there before. I would think..

... that enthusiasm translates, in some measure, to non-voters/independents getting to the polls.

[Salviati]

13. And it lessens the stress on voting later, when people who aren't as amped up are likely to vote

Meaning they're more likely to complete their voting process. Flattening the curve for the voting process as it were.

[nebby70]

8. yep

our ballots were received, filled out, stuff into the envelopes (properly), sealed and delivered all in less than an hour --
I simply couldn't wait to get my vote for Joe into the system --
now, I can wear my I Voted sticker proudly
I hear 2.6 million ballots have already been received in PA
suspect they're mostly Dems --

[Wellstone ruled]

9. If this is a

rerun of 2016 and 2018,yes the majority of the folks in those lines were Dems.

[magicarpet]

11. Lots of angry Republicans out there too.

[genxlib]

12. There is a distinction to be made

Voting early could be a mix of all voters.

Voting early in places that have long lines could be heavily democratic. This is because the ratfuckers leave us with reduced capacity and cause it on purpose.

[pandr32]

15. +1

[gratuitous]

14. I caught the Konspiracies R Us podcast last night

They're saying that Trump's supporters just can't wait to vote for him again, they're so enthusiastic. They predicted that the Trump flotillas would be driving their boats out of lakes and rivers right up to the polling places, because boater voters are a significant percentage of the electorate, and all of them vote Trump.

[Note: As far as I know, there is no podcast called Konspiracies R Us, and I wouldn't listen to it if there was. It's just a vehicle to introduce what I surmise is the Trump-humper feel-good argument for seeing those long lines.]

[FloridaBlues]

16. Sure there are republicans doing early voting too

Don't assume they are not in lines to vote