News out of Florida (Duval County) Early Voting - Dems lead

[Nicholas_J]

No link but just reported over local news, early voting shows 20,000 Democratic votes to 11,000 Republican votes.

[pa28]

1. How does Duvall County normally trend? n/t

[democrat in Tallahassee]

3. jacksonville is a big repug area; not sure about the county

[RinaJ]

4. Rethug City

It is encouraging. Maybe all the Bubba's were having car trouble. :)

[high density]

2. Democrats with 65% of the vote?

Must be a very blue part of the state(???)

[DrRock]

5. ^

This is very encouraging, considering the Republicans usually all vote early.

[helpisontheway]

6. Well, that is some very good news.

Need all the good news I can get right now. Thanks.

[rullery]

7. Duval is Jacksonville area,

where there was widespread supression of the black vote in 2000. If I were in that situation I would be voting early too, to be sure that I could, this time. So if this is what is going on there, we may not be able to gather much from these early voting figures.

[Nicholas_J]

9. Duval is largely Republican

With 66 percent Repubs, 34 percent Democrats, at least before the attempts to register Democrats this year.

[unfrigginreal]

8. Impressive - Bush carried the county by 45,000 in 2000

[sofa king]

10. Wonderful News!

A Democratic lead in early voting means that Republican efforts to reduce voting on election day may be neutralized.

It makes every Republican vote that much more important, which in turn means that the GOP will have to focus exclusively on Dem disenfranchisement, rather than simply reducing turnout in general.

Don't let 'em get close enough to steal it, Florida! Keep piling it on!