[FightforFreedomCA]

Call me stupid, but can someone explain how these numbers are good for us, outside of CO?

[goldstategop]

This is BEFORE Republicans come to the polls - which we is know is huge.

Now how are the Democrats going to make that deficit?

Something tells me neither the early vote nor the vote today is going the way the MSM and the Democrats expected.

[traderrob6]

These are EARLY voting results meaning prior to election day. A spread of only 6% in Ohio is much less than in prior elections. Narrower in several other states as well.

Normally Democrats have a LARGE advantage in this area. Significantly larger that these figures show.

[Doctor 2Brains]

So I’m not the only puzzled one...

[LibLieSlayer]

First these numbers are not the actual numbers... some dim at ap conjectures these are what the numbers are... and ap is hardcore left. obama does not have the early turnout anywhere like he saw in 2008. obama has forced many regular dim voters that vote on election day to vote early to help give the appearance of momentum... so those traditional dim voters will not turn out today. Republicans are experiencing record early voting numbers and we know we will turn out more voters today than obama will. THAT is why even these ap lies would be good news. Reality is even better for us. obama is toast.

LLS

[comebacknewt]

If those numbers are accurate, they are very good for us because almost every pollster shows Romney with a large lead amongst voters who are voting today as opposed to early voting.

Obama needs to have locked up a huge advantage in early votes to win, and these numbers suggest that he hasn’t done that in most states.

Having said that, I am skeptical these numbers are real mainly because I am expecting Ohio to be razor close and this data indicates an easy Romney win there.

[RedPriest73]

These numbers are actually very good for us! These are Early vote percentages based on party affiliation, NOT how they actually voted. Considering that Dems usually win the EV percentages and that it is much more likely that Dems will vote for R than O these numbers are great. Let's take OH for instance. 1.6 million voters are approximately 32% of the electorate. In 2008 McCain won election day in OH by 2 points. If R wins conservatively by 5 points on election day, he would win OH by 1 percent. And those numbers assume that each candidate gets 100% of their party. As I said earlier it is more likely Dems will vote R than Reps for O. Also, this is assuming that Inds vote 50/50. Again it is more likely that Inds voted for Romney. So for instance if you just move the Ind vote to 55/45 R, the election would be a complete blowout!

I'm actually a bit skeptical of the numbers because of caution then anything else. These numbers are so good that I question them so I don't get too excited. Let's hope these numbers are real and that it keeps going the way it's going!

[Red Steel]

Call me stupid, but can someone explain how these numbers are good for us, outside of CO?

Nutshell. They are significantly lower than they were in 2008 where McCain won the voting on Election day.