The early and absentee-voting reports are in**and Democrats continue to roll up big margins over Republicans now that early voting, in its fourth of eight days, is underway. On Saturday and Sunday, Democrats wiped a lead that Republicans held with absentee ballots (which are typically mailed in).
As of this morning, Democrats' led by about 101,000 in early votes while Republicans had a more than 61,000-vote lead. Net Democratic advantage: more than 30,000 ballots. Monday marked the first day of non-weekend early voting, but there was an actual uptick in EV overall. (click here for yesterday's numbers and analysis. To see previous days, click the Florida Voters hyperlink)
Monday's heavy vote could be an anomaly (folks voting Monday because they rested Sunday or thought the polls would be too crowded). Or this could be a sign of the organization that the Obama campaign says it has. We'll see.
The numbers are big: 2.2 million people have already voted out of 11.9 million registered voters. If this presidential election is like the others, 75% of the registered voters will cast ballots. So instead of 18% of the electorate having voted, there's a chance it could be a quarter by now.
The early vote numbers:
| Party | EV Total | % |
| DEM | 391,238 | 48% |
| REP | 290,368 | 36% |
| IND | 133,698 | 16% |
| TOTAL | 815,304 |
The absentee numbers:
| Party | AB Total | % |
| REP | 634,814 | 44% |
| DEM | 574,122 | 40% |
| IND | 240,563 | 17% |
| TOTAL | 1,450,814 |
The totals
| Party | EV/AB | % |
| DEM | 965,360 | 43% |
| REP | 925,182 | 41% |
| IND | 374,261 | 17% |
| TOTAL | 2,266,118 |
There's another measure of voting (or potential voting) to consider as well: outstanding absentee-ballot requests -- those people who have requested ballots and who have either not voted them or not yet mailed them back.
| Party | ABs out | % |
| DEM | 509,092 | 40% |
| REP | 484,114 | 38% |
| IND | 278,403 | 22% |
| TOTAL | 1,271,609 |
**Note: This analysis relies on state data and two major counties, Duval and Palm Beach, weren't in this morning. Now they are and the post has been updated.
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