And if Republicans do not make more of an effort, those voting shifts could harden, just as Hispanics' voting patterns have.
Wider margins are forecast Saturday during the second and final round of balloting, when voting shifts to smaller cities and more rural areas, where Islamists have a clear edge.
However, Nate Silver, the polling expert and founder of FiveThirtyEight, cast significant doubt over this theory on Tuesday evening, stating that the difference disappeared after race and education levels, which most closely tracked voting shifts nationwide, were controlled for.
However, Nate Silver, the polling expert and founder of FiveThirtyEight, cast doubt over the theory, stating that the difference disappeared after race and education levels, which most closely tracked voting shifts nationwide, were controlled for.
In 2002, all of Georgia's voters used Diebold touch screen voting machines and both the incumbent Democratic Governor and the incumbent Democratic Senator, who had been well ahead in the polls just before the election, lost in amazing double-digit voting shifts.
As the electoral votes shift southward, with population growth, what are your recommendations for a Democratic candidate to woo Southern voters?
A one-vote shift could put the justices more clearly behind affirmative action programs or put the programs out of business.
(What if an employer objected to the notion of having children out of wedlock? Would it have license to refuse insurance coverage for prenatal care to single moms?) It was defeated 51-48, which means a two-vote shift would have sent this addle-brained bill to the House.
Speaker J. Dennis Hastert is especially interested in trying to broker a deal on the long-stalled patients' bill of rights, and a one-vote shift in the Senate -- Senator Zell Miller, Democrat of Georgia, has been appointed to replace the late Senator Paul Coverdell, a Republican -- could make the difference.
