Election Roundup: Early Voting, Best Democratic Campaign Ads, (MD-Gov) Ben Jealous Campaign
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The following stories are examples of this week's Election Roundup of 48 down ticket stories covering Sunday 10/14 through Saturday 10/20. (Voting) Early Voting Is Happening, And It's Big! UPDATE 3 Hr. Wait Today In Cobb County Georgia by pollwatcher MiElection Roundup: Early Voting, Best Democratic Campaign Ads, (MD-Gov) Ben Jealous Campaign
The following stories are examples of this week's Election Roundup of 48 down ticket stories covering Sunday 10/14 through Saturday 10/20. (Voting) Early Voting Is Happening, And It's Big! UPDATE 3 Hr. Wait Today In Cobb County Georgia by pollwatcher Michael McDonald at the University of Florida does a wonderful job of collecting early voting stats and posting them over at ElectProject. He’s got some tweets about the very early voting and it’s on a pace to be BIGGER than the 2016 presidential year! Yes, it’s early but it’s a great start. I’m not sure there’s ever been a midterm election with a bigger turnout than a presidential year. xThe levels of engagement are just bonkers in some some states. If this keeps up, we'll have turnout higher than the 2016 presidential election. That can't happen, can it? You'd think this has to level off at some point, but there are no signs yetâ Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) October 17, 2018 (Media) The Best of Democratic Campaign Ads by AKALib Here is a sample of some of the best campaign ads run by Democratic candidates around the country. As is usually the case, Democratic campaign ads tend to be positive, uplifting, creative and make liberal use of humor, while Republican campaign ads tend to be dark, deceitful, and focus on fear and identity politics (so we won’t present any of them). (16 great ads) (MD-Gov) The governor's mansion is theirs for the taking, if Maryland's Democrats want it by dwats Ben Jealous, Maryland’s Democratic nominee for governor, is running an unconventional campaign in several ways. One of the most notable of these is that he is running as an underdog, which no Democrat has done in a statewide race in 38 years. Since Charles Mathias, a moderate Republican, in an era when those actually existed, won reelection to his US Senate seat in 1980, Democrats have won all but two statewide races since (plus Mondale ‘84 and Dukakis ‘88 also lost here). Read more