from True Pundit:
As political pundits wait on tenterhooks for tonight’s midterm election results, we have a slight indication of how things will go via early voting numbers. The latest early voting numbers provided by The Washington Post don’t show a “blue wave” materializing if you judge by the Philip Bump of the Post reports: “Compared to 2014, new and infrequent voters make up slightly more of the early voting electorate, while ‘super voters’ make up slightly less.”
Bump then makes a crucial admission: “In no state did the density of infrequent voters this year top the density of infrequent voters seen in 2016 early voting.”
That’s not the news Democrats want to hear. The Party is hoping to get more voters out this cycle than the last one.
If a “blue wave” were indeed rushing down the Potomac and approaching the Washington, D.C., shores, we’d expect to see a large increase in early voting among both new voters and those who rarely vote. And while we are seeing an increase in some Democratic strongholds, that isn’t true across the board, namely in battleground states.
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