“Just returned from voting in Citrus County, Florida, and clerks said it was the busiest they’ve seen for first day early voting. No long lines, but a steady parade of early voters. Most looked very happy -— whatever that may mean.”
“Early voting tweet from Sarasota:
Long lines for #earlyvoting at the Clerk of Courts office in Sarasota. Candidate Alex Miller greets voters.— Katherine Ferrara (@katiejwriter) October 24, 2016
The point here is to look at the big picture. It also appears there’s BIG turnout in the above mentioned Republican counties as well. So turnout appears to be high everywhere on this first day of FL early voting.
It just would seem to me taking into account the enthusiasm gap that higher turnout overall benefits Trump acknowledging that many are indeed coming out to vote against him.
My opinion FWIW.
Also Orange County a Democrat majority county:
“Just returned from Early Voting in East Orlando, just South of UCF (2nd largest college campus in the US). This polling place is in a very diverse area since much of surrounding area is students and working class families. When we vote here in 2012, the lines were better than 90 black folks with Church Vans in operation and huge coordination efforts happening. Today the lines were mixed with maybe 1/2 white, very few Millennials, 1/4 Hispanic and 1/4 black. In 2012 I was completely blown away with the demographics, today is was very very different. It was about a 45 minute wait.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3484238/posts
Is Florida using electronic voting, or paper ballot?