Another spectacular day of early voting on day 3 in Florida. Check this out from: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/...



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-[absentee] 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. ...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.



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%

It's important to note that it took Dems a full week to erase the traditional 18-20 point lead in absentee ballots. This year it took two days. And regarding absentee ballots not yet returned:So, there will NOT be another surge of absentee ballots from the GOP. So now that we've whupped them in the first weekend, where do we go from here:

The in-person early vote numbers:



Party EV Total % DEM 391,238 48%

REP 290,368 36%

IND 133,698 16%

TOTAL 815,304

We're ahead 100,870 in the first three days of early voting. That's an average of 33,600 per day. Multiply that by 5-more days and we get + 168,000 Obama. Add the additional 25K absentee we have outstanding and we're at 193K ahead.

Folks, I have a question that no one's asking:

If the GOP are so enthusiastically fired-up for their man, why aren't they actually voting?

We're winning Florida thru the first 25% of the vote and certainly on election day!!