October 27, 2014 5:06 PM

Davis Campaign upbeat over early voting

Drop off in white vote; increase in minority participation unusual in mid-term early vote

Amidst a flurry of bad poll numbers and buried under four times as many TV spots from the other side, the Davis Campaign is expressing some guarded optimism off of early vote numbers.

The conventional press has characterized the big drop off in people actually showing up at the polls in the first five days of early voting compared to the last mid-term election in 2010 as a good omen for Republicans.

Not so say the Democrats. Davis’ folks have a very different take on the numbers. In what has been a historically strong period for Republicans in early voting because of the truncated hours (8-5), the Davis team counters that 4% more African American voters have participated than in 2010 and 12% more Hispanic voters.

By Harvey Kronberg