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brooklynite

(96,882 posts) Mon Oct 26, 2020, 09:09 AM Oct 2020

Overcoming polling margins... [View all]

Based on 2008 turnout, overcoming a 1% difference in Florida means finding 82,000 additional votes

in Texas 79,000 votes

in Ohio 55,000 votes

in North Carolina 42,000 votes

in Georgia 39,000 votes

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Overcoming polling margins... [View all] brooklynite Oct 2020 OP

Isn't that an important phrase? gab13by13 Oct 2020 #1

I thought about adding 10% to 2008 to account for that... brooklynite Oct 2020 #2

wtf 2008 turn out? 2020 is going to blow those numbers away as %% of votes will break 1960 beachbumbob Oct 2020 #3

My husband and I are 2 of the NC 42,000 votes! We've already voted! BComplex Oct 2020 #4