I don't agree with GOP enthusiasm claims

[mojo2012]

Especially in the all states impacted directly or indirectly by Hurricane Sandy. If there were really that MANY voters so enthusiastic to vote for Mitt Romney, why didn't they vote early?
Now with problems of their own related to Sandy, their last thoughts are NOT on getting Mitt Romney elected. Doesn't it make sense for the conservative Republicans voters to stand by their mantra of "Mitt, you're on your own"?
A natural disaster under a Romney administration would be for he and only his family to take the elevator (that he will not allow anyone else to use) down to the Presidential bomb shelter and to the rest of the nation, "you're on you own".

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Enthusiasm and Mitt Romney just don't go together IMHO

that's why he was destined to lose before he began. The Republicans basically nominated him because he was the only man left standing by the end of a monstrously long GOP primary season.

[LeftInTX]

3. Heck Mitt can't even get enthusiastic about himself

[NCLefty]

4. The enthusiasm is fueled by hate of Obama, not any kind of love for Mitt.

A hatred stoked nightly at Fakes News.

But we all know that quite well

[patrice]

2. Show me the enthusiasm in these faces:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021676496

[On the Road]

5. The Enthusiasm Gap is About as Real as the Missle Gap was in 1960

It never made a whole lot of sense in any case. Maybe there's a fear gap (how many Republicans are looking forward to "a thousand years of darkness" LOL), but as you point out, it hasn't seemed to have impacted early voting.