OPINION: GOP election strategy: Get smart about early voting or get used to losing
Republicans, Democrats and media figures pointed to Republican "extremism" and "candidate quality" as reasons why Republicans didn't perform as well as expected in the midterms.are finally over and in Washington that means it’s time for some finger-pointing, soul-searching and brainstorming.
The line for early voting at a polling place in Oklahoma County wraps around the Edmond Church of Christ and more, Oct. 30, 2020, in Edmond, Oklahoma.Republicans won the national popular vote convincingly by a margin of 50.6% to 47.8% and won back the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. And despite facing a brutal map in the U.
Florida Republicans capitalized on early voting and won big. Now, the Sunshine State is no longer even considered a swing state. , Republicans failed to vote early and it cost them. Of the 1.18 million people in Pennsylvania who voted by mail, a stunning 69% were Democrat ballots. To put a fine point on it, Democrats cast about 567,000 more mail-in votes than Republicans and Democrat John Fetterman won the election by roughly 263,000 votes.
Voters fill out forms as they wait in line to cast ballots in the last hour of early voting in the Atlanta suburb of Tucker, Georgia, on Nov. 4, 2022.
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