100,000 GOP Increase North Carolina Early Voting Sets Record Republicans Surge | Eastern North Carolina Now

Press Release:

    RALEIGH, NC     Today the North Carolina Republican party warned its voter base, that despite record GOP turnout in early voting, Republicans must see strong early voting and absentee voting returns this weekend, and strong Election Day voting in order to declare victory in North Carolina.

    With only two early voting days left, North Carolina Republicans have added 100,000 additional GOP early voters when compared to 2012, while democrats have lost nearly 2,000 votes.

    Through 15 days of Early Voting, (through Thursday), we are now at 2.58 million ballots cast compared to 2.11 million through the same 15 days in 2012.

• According to respected North Carolina political consultant Chris Hayes, @chayes_nc:
• -Republican vote share in Early Voting is up from 30.1% to 31.4%.
• -Unaffiliated turnout continued to boom - up 23k over Day 15 in 2012. Total UNA increase is now almost 200k votes, increasing their vote share from 20% to 25.4%
• -African American (AA) turnout is down 60,000 from 2012 with the vote share dropping from 29.1% to 22.7% (Reminder, overall turnout for AAs in 2012 was 23.1% after being 28.9% during Early Voting 16.2% on Election day.
• -(Reminder, overall turnout for AAs in 2012 was 23.1% -- 28.9% during EV, 16.2% on ED).
• -Also concerning for Democrats is the slow down in White Democrat voters.
• -Compared to same-day 2012, White Democrats were flat at a hair under 41k voters. So while the overall electorate was up 22.4% yesterday, White Dems didn't take part in the increase. Their vote share has now dropped from 21.3% in 2012 to 20.4%.

    Also, 99 of 100 North Carolina Counties have seen higher early vote turnout by Republicans this year than 2012.

• "Republicans have to stay motivated despite what you hear from the media. We can't take our foot off the gas! Because of a massive drop in voting by key members of the valued Obama coalition, Democrats are now using their tried-and-true race-baiting scare tactics to try and motivate people to vote for their uninspiring Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton. Meanwhile, Republican voters are empowered by the chance to 'Make America Great Again.' Democrat voters are not suppressed, but depressed, because they have a seriously corrupt candidate that offers no hope, no change, and is certainly not the 'one we have been waiting for.'" - Dallas Woodhouse, NCGOP Executive Director

    Information provided by the North Carolina State Board of Elections has proved the increased opportunity for North Carolinians to vote early.

    The NCGOP credited the surge in Republican early voting numbers to efforts by NCGOP volunteers and RNC partners who have worked to greatly improve Republican voter registration since 2012. In the last four years, from October 2012 to October 2016, Republicans have improved their voter registration compared to Democrats by 140,000, including GOP increases and massive Democrat losses.

• Contact: NCGOP Communications
•     communications@ncgop.org

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Should Americans be thankful for North Carolinians setting precedent in taking a stand for their state's right to manage the safety of their public facilities, where separation of the sexes remains, or should they follow Bruce Springsteen's lead and boycott the state as bigots since they will not allow grown Transgender men to use the same bathrooms /locker rooms as pre-pubescent girls?

  North Carolina is right to control the separation of the sexes as a matter of decorum and safety.

  North Carolina is a bigoted state to not require that children of opposite sexes share the same public facilities with adults of the opposite sex, although misidentified - the Transgender.

  I generally prefer the natural environs of the vacant, although rather public, large tree.

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