FL absentee ballots... good news!

[HooptieWagon]

FL has 1.1 million absentee ballots in. About 1.5 million not returned yet (have till oct31). Over 9 million expected total vote. Usually the Rs kill Dems on absentee ballots, but much closer this time... Dems closed about 85% of gap. 79% are from white non-hispanic, 8% from African American, and 9% Hispanic. So, the race is close even before Dem strength is counted. But wait, theres more! About 65% of the Hispanic vote is from Miami-Dade, with large Cuban-American population. Tampa and Orlando also have large Hispanic populations, that lean more heavily Dem.

Early voting started today, I have heard turnout was large. Tommorrow will be a strong day for Dems - it is the only Sunday of early voting and African Americans have big voting push after church. Democrats know what is at stake, and enthusiasm is high. Looking good!

Info was compiled from several news sources.

[Justice4All1]

1. Cuban Americans tend to be Rethugs though

Hope we can gte Fl, if we do game over before midnight Nov 6.

[dballance]

3. Yep, The MIA Cubans especially

I believe it's because they were all rich Cubans who had to flee Cuba when the people of Cuba had the good sense to overthow Batista. I believe most of them were part of Cuba's 1% and they were closely associated with Batista. So they had to get out or they probably would have ended up dead eventually.

[OldDem2012]

7. The Batista Cubans had strong links to the US right-wingers, CIA and organized crime. All of them...

....worked together to attempt to overthrow Castro during the Cuban Task Force days. Several of the names associated with the Cuban Task Force also showed up during the Warren Commission, House Committee on Assassinations, and the Watergate investigations.

[HooptieWagon]

5. Its no longer a monolith.

First generations are solid republican, each successive generation is more Dem. In Tampa, where Cuban immigration came in 1880s, Hispanics of Cuban heritage are reliably blue. They no longer even call themselves hyphen-Americans, just Americans. Even second and third generations in Miami Dade tend Dem. The old meme of all Cuban Americans being solidly red no longer is true.

[Dalai_1]

2. Reverend Al is in Fla now too

This sounds really great! Thank you for the information

[kansasobama]

4. FL Dems should vote early

You guys have a Tea Party governor and corruption is rampant. I mean when it comes to Dem votes.

Also, I think they stop early voting 3 days early.

Rev. Sharpton is there. That feels good.

[HooptieWagon]

6. Yes, repukes cut early voting from 14 days to 8.

The Sunday before election day, when many African Americans usually voted, was eliminated. They are PISSED! They are doing a big voter push to the polls tommorrow.

[obxhead]

8. Yet most pundits say early voting favors R's

[Lochloosa]

9. Not this time. I voted this morning in Jacksonville.

It was obvious that this was a bid D crowd in line.

[HooptieWagon]

10. I don't know elsewhere...

But in FL early voting has always favored Dems. Absentee voting has always been strongly R, but it looks like Dems have closed the gap tremendously this year.

[-LOKI -BAD FOR YA]

11. today ,is one of the important day of the election.the large aa and latino turnout may the edge

the gop do not have someone they feel passionate about ,ryan is just a sidekick,and mitt had such a bad time ,with meatloaf and the clown posse .he is a secret undisclosed location with his two stabilizer,ann and his money.the minority community is offended that they tried to take away their voting rights .

[William769]

12. Kick & recommended.