What the record breaking number of early voters can tell us about the election

this is the very first time on a round. table that we can really talk about. early voting because we now have hard. numbers they're starting to come in. because people are actually early voting. we got our first real batch of those. numbers on Tuesday night out of Georgia. and the numbers were pretty eye popping. let me just summarize them for you by. the end of Tuesday more than. 300,000 voters in Georgia had cast. ballots which basically means more than. twice as many people voted early this. year I think that tells us something but.

what does it tell us H what does that. mean I mean Michael you know how do you. add a record shattering first I. understand we are in a neck and Nick. race razor type margins margin era every. state as you said and we are all. desperate for things to grab on to that. will tell you're about to tell me that. the first day doesn't matter I mean. there's a lot more days right we don't. know what's going to happen all these. other days we don't necessarily know who. those people are who are voting we know.

how they voted well we know historic. patterns tell us that early voting and. mailin voting tends to Trend. significantly Democratic however our big. marker on male mail in and early mail in. voting is 2020 which if you may recall. was anomalous I believe you were in your. uh closet Studio then we were not in. this beautiful place so it's not like. you can glean that much data from that. experience so I just think let's not. you're caveat it let's not overdo it. have to imagine it tells us something.

about Democratic party energy in a state. like Georgia because I'm just thinking. back four years ago Joe Biden won that. state over Donald Trump if that number. is twice as big this year I just wonder. if that starts to tell us something. about the way we should be thinking. about Georgia a state that for the. longest time we thought of as trumps to. lose I think it tells us about the total. amount of energy versus the Democratic. or republican energy because the. Republican party has been trying to get. voters to vote early they have been.

scolding voters despite what Donald. Trump said in 2020 they've been pushing. and there's a really sort of mechanical. reason why this matters which is the. most organized campaigns have a list of. Voters that they would like to get to. the polls right and for those states. that say who actually has voted they can. cross them off the list so you don't. knock on their door again you don't send. them another mail or you save money. you're targeting becomes more. sophisticated it's an advantage for the. more organized campaigns to make sure. they focus on the lower propensity.

voters that they think is going to make. the difference right and can't we all. just find something to celebrate in the. fact that people are voting it's great. people are voting things a democracy I. mean Trump isn't just a unifying thing. for the Democrat he has brought more. people out to vote right we have said. voting record since he got into office. we shatter record after record for. turnout people are more engaged in the. process of voting than they had were. before.