{"id":2907,"date":"2004-11-01T13:23:35","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T18:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2907.html"},"modified":"2004-11-01T13:23:35","modified_gmt":"2004-11-01T18:23:35","slug":"election-day-is-officially-tomorrow-but-weve-jumped-out-to-an-early-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/election-day-is-officially-tomorrow-but-weve-jumped-out-to-an-early-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Day is officially tomorrow, but we&#8217;ve jumped out to an early lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t early voting great?<\/p>\n<p>* In Florida, 30% of registered voters said they already had cast their ballots, using early voting sites and absentee ballots. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politicselections\/nation\/polls\/2004-10-31-poll-x_x.htm\">They supported Kerry 51% to 43%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* In population-rich south Florida, a Miami Herald poll Sunday showed that among the 16% of voters who cast ballots early, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politicselections\/nation\/2004-10-31-fla-voters_x.htm\">Kerry drew 56%, compared with Bush, who received 39%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* 27% of Iowa adults surveyed over the weekend said they had already voted. <a href=\"http:\/\/desmoinesregister.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20041030\/NEWS09\/41030009\/1001&#038;lead=1\">Kerry leads Bush, 52% to 41%<\/a>, among that group of early-bird voters.<\/p>\n<p>* In Nevada&#8217;s population-rich Clark County (home to Las Vegas), more than 86,000 people have voted early and almost 22,000 have sent in mail ballots. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/campaignjournal?week=2004-10-18\">Democrats have about 2,300-voter lead<\/a> when the totals are combined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t early voting great? * In Florida, 30% of registered voters said they already had cast their ballots, using early voting sites and absentee ballots. They supported Kerry 51% to 43%. * In population-rich south Florida, a Miami Herald poll Sunday showed that among the 16% of voters who cast ballots early, Kerry drew 56%, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}