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Thu Nov 1, 2012, 08:55 PM Nov 2012

Democrats crushing Republicans on sporadic Fla voters in early voting

http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/content/democrats-crushing-republicans-sporadic-fla-voters-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.


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Q: Isn't it fair to assume that Romney, that the Republican nominee, will again win Florida on election day?

Walker: No, absolutely not. This race is tight. This is a very, very tight race. That's not spin. If it wasn't a tight race Romney would not be here all week. They wouldn't be scouting out locations for event on Monday. If they had it locked up, they would be in states where they don't have it locked up because there are plenty of them that they are still trying to cut into our edge."
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