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October 27, 2004
| Eleven Percent Have Voted in Miami Dade

Eleven Percent Have Voted in Miami-Dade County
— Local Issues are pushing the Presidential Candidates Aside

by Frank Derfler www.derfler.net

The Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections is reporting that 122,788 persons used early voting as of October 26. That’s 11.5% of the registered voters. That office sent out approximately the same number of absentee ballots. So, about 22% of the registered voters in Miami-Dade are accounted for. The numbers from Broward County and Hillsborough County show about the same percentages.

The Miami Herald continues to report long lines with over an hour wait at the polling locations. It makes a good story. My continued personal surveys show significant peaks and valleys in voters arriving during the day. At times during the mid-afternoon you can walk right in.

The pace of the ads from the presidential candicates during prime time TV and drive-time radio seems to be slowing. You can go for a number of minutes without hearing an attack on Bush or Kerry. But, the attacks between doctors and lawyers, between gambling interests and family value supporters, and between senatorial candidates are increasing in volume and VOLUME.

Again, I don’t advise trusting any polls from Florida. Undecided voters are as rare as snowflakes in the Everglades.

Now, it’s all about who goes to the polls. See the previous posting on this board about the 45,000 people registered in both New York and Florida. No wonder the Republicans have Ed Koch and the Democrats have Bill Clinton both working the area of North Miami!



Posted by Frank Derfler at October 27, 2004 09:29 AM | TrackBack
Comments

I wonder how the liberal socialists are going to explain the landslide win by George Bush this time around ? If we’ve got the election tamper proof, the liberal socialist party is in deep sh-t. That’s a big if. Maybe that will be GW’s October Surprise…….the elections have been made tamper proof.

Posted by: No Party [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 27, 2004 02:53 PM

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