Very good turnout for Dems.
Kane County only, Early Voters's R ballots: 5409 D ballots: 4982 Kane County ballots cast in general primaries past. 2006 D: 16876 R: 45445 Total ballots cast: 66331 Total registered: 244891 2004 D: 22526 R: 35772 TB: 59328 TR: 227101 2002 D: 22572 R: 49959 TB: 75413 TR: 219721
Special Election Early Votes
Rs 5499
Ds 4431
Not sure what this means, but it appears Republicans are pulling Democratic ballots in the Presidential and then Republican in the special. No idea what that means.
If it weren’t for Foster offering up the first fighting chance since who knows when I’d be tempted to pull a GOP special ballot just so I’d actually have a say in who the next Congressman is (if one of them actually seemed less bad than the other).
That’s probably what some people are thinking. There’s also the Obama appeal on the regular ballot.
Wait … the R number is roughly the same in both elections … it’s just that fewer Ds are bothing to vote in the special, which makes sense.
Still those are fantastic numbers. I’m still skeptical there’s a possible second wave after 2006, but I’d love to be proven wrong.
That was my initial reaction, but if you have a GOP race that’s close, and multiply that times 5 or 10, it starts to matter.
[…] For the history of Kane County Primary voting see this – and also see what ArchPundit wrote about early primary voting this election. Kane County is only one county in the 14th – I use it as an example – but in general district voting numbers were up. […]