Tennesseans through Saturday cast nearly 406,213 early and absentee ballots during the state’s first four days of early voting in the Nov. 6 midterm election, according to the Secretary of State’s website.
Georgia, too, has been seeing incredibly high early voter turnout with nearly three times (as of Friday) the number of people who voted in comparable days during the 2014 midterm elections.
Those upswings are in keeping with increases in midterm early voting across the country.
It’s a welcome change in America and hopefully a good sign for Democrats hoping to win control of the U.S. House of Representatives and perhaps (we cross our fingers) the Senate as well.
If history is a indication, Democrats generally win when voter turnout is high. Recent polling looks promising, too.