Democrats crushing Republicans on sporadic Fla voters in early voting
A trusted Democratic operative sent us some data on the early and absentee ballot vote in Florida so far to make the point that Barack Obama is crushing Mitt Romney when it comes to banking the votes of sporadic and infrequent voters before election day. So far more than 3 million Floridians have cast a ballot by absentee, mail-in ballot or in-person early vote ballot. Democrats lead by more than 60,000 votes, but it's the unlikely voter numbers that jump out:
Of the nearly 414,000 Floridians who did not vote in the last three general elections, Democrats have an advantage of more than 53,000 votes. Of the more than 482,000 Floridians who have only voted in one of the last three general elections, Democrats lead by more than 77,000 - a total of more than 132,000.
So what does this mean?
Republicans convincingly note that Obama's early/absentee vote advantage is falling short of where it was four years ago, when the state allowed more early voting days (advantage Democrats), and Obama went into election day with a lead of about 280,000 early and absentee votes. John McCain won election day voting but lost Florida by about 236,000 votes.
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