John Nicoles:10% of the early voting came from Madison in Wisconsin

[bigdarryl]

He just let that news out on big Ed's Radio show

[freshwest]

1. Is that good? Meaning only 10%? 90% elsewhere that may be pro-Walker?

Thanks for the update but I am sure our Wisconsin brothers and sisters are hard at work today on GOTV for Barrett. And I don't have any idea what that means to the effort...

[bigdarryl]

2. John said that's good news for Barrett because Madison is mostly a democrat area

[freshwest]

4. So that's an indication of a strong turnout there! Good!

[HereSince1628]

3. It's also good because Madison has a very large student population.

In 2010 young voters didn't turnout like they did in 2008.

There was a big effort on the UW campus to get students to vote early.

The Recall needs those young voters and high early voting might be consistent with students voting

[freshwest]

5. I hope so, this is about their future. All good.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Exactly. It's a way around the Republican attempts to exclude students

from voting because they won't meet residency requirements at home, due to the new 28-day residency requirement (it used to be 10 days).

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

8. That's a good idea, too. I hadn't thought of that. Have the students vote early to circumvent

the draconian registration/voting rules. That's awesome!!!

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

7. But is that good? Only 10%? I needed to be much higher in my view...

[Salviati]

9. It is more than their percentage of the population

Madison proper is about 4% of the population of Wisconsin, if these results are really for the whole of Dane County (where Madison is) that represents 8.5% of the population. Either way it represents a share of the early votes larger than their share of the population, which is likely good for the Democrats.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

10. Got it! Well then it's great news! Let's go, Wisconsin!!! ;)

[LiberalFighter]

11. I'm wondering if it was heard right.

I heard earlier that Madison and Milwaukee and 10-11% higher early voting than in 2010.