Georgia

it was so crowded voting yesterday that the last people finished at 10:30 even though the polls closed at 7 PM at one spot. GA is in play......I can feel it. Expanded polling places and hours start next Monday the 27th - 31st.

Total Votes - 825,983 (+69,000)

Non White Vote - 302,000

% -36.6%

Remember if the final vote has us over 30% for the African American/Latino/Asian vote we will win GA. It is tracking for 12 days now over 36%.

In 2004 20.2% voted early and already nearly 24.9% of 2004 voter totals have already and we have 9 days left!. Black vote was 25% and total non white vote was 29.4% and just shy of a million votes out of 3.3 million.

One interesting thing to remember about early voting is that it is inconvenient for people that do not drive in many cases. 20% of black voters do not have licenses so from what I can see in our 4 precincts most folks will not vote early and there will be an election day surge in  the black vote continuing the early voting trends.

If we track thru 10/31 when early vote ends like we are now (+/- 2%) McCain is going to lose GA as election day turnout in our larger inner city areas will be huge and Atlanta and Savannah are the keys to the black vote in GA.