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Tenleytown

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Fri Oct 26, 2012, 09:36 PM Oct 2012

Are North Carolina and Florida Really That Similar? Early Voting Patterns in Select Swing States

I have been reading this guy's blog daily and like the info on early voting

Cab Political Daily Thoughts October 26, 2012

"Colorado: Early voting in Colorado remains quite high as over 626,000 votes have now been cast, roughly 26% of the overall votes cast in 2008. That’s a huge surge over what had been calculated just two days ago when 326,000 votes were banked. Two days ago, Republicans had a 1.7% vote advantage. Today, that number improves to 2.9%. Still, this isn’t a terrible number for Democrats as Republicans had a 1% voter edge in 2008 and Obama still won by 9%. That said, this is a pretty good early sign for Republicans as Democrats tend to have much higher early vote edges then Republicans, so that Republican number may continue to increase. To be victorious, Obama will likely have to keep that Republican voting edge under 5%. Today, Obama did get two good data points out of Colorado. ..."

http://www.cabpolitical.com/2012/10/

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