Originally posted at Dr. Michael Bitzer’s blog, Old North State Politics. Dr. Bitzer is a professor of politics and history at Catawba College. He’s a frequent analyst and commentator on news and public affairs programs because of understanding and knowledge of Southern politics, particularly in the Carolinas. You can reach him at politics at catawba dot edu or follow him on twitter at @CatawbaPolitics.
As we move into the final two weeks of North Carolina’s general election campaign, we are seeing a definite uptick in mail-in ballots requested, especially by registered Republicans, along with a tightening of the returned and accepted ballots between both Democrats and Republicans.
- registered Republicans are 43 percent of the total requests
- registered Democrats are 33 percent
- registered unaffiliated voters are 24 percent
- female voters are 56 percent
- white voters are 84 percent
- black voters are 11 percent
- Registered Democrats and Republicans are tied at 39 percent each
- registered unaffiliated voters are 22 percent
- women are 54 percent of the returned and accepted ballots
- white voters are 84 percent
- black voters are 12 percent
I also ran some analyses using these numbers, first by dividing up the counties into urban, suburban, and rural classifications and comparing the numbers to the 2010 percentages as well.
Democrats and unaffiliated voters are over-performing their 2010 performance in all three regional areas, while Republicans have seen their 2014 shares cut significantly (down 7 to 8 percent).
Finally, I compared the final party registration percentages for mail-in balloting in the 2006-2012 general elections with the 10-19-14 totals so far:
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