I posted a couple of days ago about unusually heavy voting in Washington State (which has all mail-in/drop-box voting and does not provide information on party affiliation of votes cast). The trend I noted the last time I posted is still holding.
In 2016 (3 days before the election): 43.9% of ballots had been returned.
In 2020 (3 days before the election): 67.6% of ballots have been returned.
I don't know what this means, but I suspect that it may be pretty good for our side. A number of us in Washington have noted that this election feels really different. There is very little visible public support for the main Dem candidates (Joe and Governor Jay) in terms of yard signs, rallies, and such where I am in Western Washington, unlike previous elections. In other parts of the state people are reporting very visible and loud support for PDJT and for R-Governor candidate Culp.
There is most definitely anger here directed at the governor about covid policies: so many shops and restaurants out of business, so many people put out of work, and so many kids kept from regular schools and regular activities. There is also most definitely anger at the failure of government officials to deal with the violence, looting, and destruction of Antifa/BLM and the failure of these officials to support law enforcement.
If this heavy voting is among Ds, then it is because of strong TDS (or maybe because some of them are secretly voting for the good guys???) and not because of strong support for Joe or Jay. If this is heavy voting among Rs, then....whoa....
I'd love to hear what those of you on the ground in Washington see, hear, and think.
WASHINGTON IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN RED.
VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Free IDs to illegals now.
Free vote registration.
WA is lost till we fix the voting issues.
To be fair, it's hard to be poor or illegal in WA.
Our state is so favorable to rich conservatives that they just can't get ahead.
They come and go, but they don't stick around for too long.
That's why the dems try to make our state palatable for them. But it doesn't work.
IE, here where I live, it used to be considered the place where you put all the poor houses. Well, now thanks to the jobs our homes start at $250k. There ain't no poor person sticking around here. And without rent controls, you're better off buying than renting in every corner of this state.
Poor people show up, stick around for a year, and then move on to California or what not. They just don't thrive in this state.
That is a very strange perspective.
I disagree.
There are so many handouts and govnt options and job opportunities.
If you're poor WA has a ton of education programs and options.
There are jobs being created all the time.
The poor in WA are lazy.
Period