As I quoted from the Miami Herald yesterday: http://www.dailykos.com/...
"With 1.6m Floridians having voted, Dems cut GOP absentee vote-lead in half in 1st early vote day
In just 12 hours of in-person early voting Saturday, Florida Democrats swamped the polls so heavily that they ran up a more than 39,000-vote margin over Republicans out of the nearly 300,000 votes that were cast at polling stations.
The Democratic vote was so big that it cut a Republican lead, built up during a month's worth of absentee-ballot voting, by about 60 percent. As of Saturday morning, Republicans were ahead of Democrats by nearly 66,000 absentee ballots cast, or 5 percentage points.
Factor in the day's worth of Democratic early voting, and that GOP lead is now just above 26,300, or 1.6 points. Add in Duval, whenever those numbers come in, and the GOP lead should be even smaller."
Well, the preliminary numbers are in and O has erased the 66k deficit in two days and gone up by 10K!!! Check this out:
http://www.tampabay.com/...
"By the time the sun rose Monday morning, nearly 2 million Floridians had already cast ballots, with Republicans and Democrats nearly dead even, according to official numbers posted on the state Division of Elections web site.
Here's the breakdown: 1,865,896 people in Florida had voted through Sunday.
Of that total, Democrats accounted for 784,444 votes, Republicans 774,304 and others (no-party and minor party voters) 307,148.
Democrats lead in early voting, 251,541 to 178,364 for Republicans.
Republicans lead in voting absentee or by mail, 595,940 to 532,903 for Democrats."
So we're averaging a 36K margin per day in early voting.
Hope it holds!!