Yes, the Panhandle counties are open for voting today due to the hurricane. It should make a few thousand uptick in the GOP vote. The good news out of this is that the Rs are ahead of where they were in 2016 with the combined early voting/absentee balloting. The bad news is that we don’t know how many Rs will cross over to vote for Nelson and Scott nor where the Independents lie. One factor not taken into account is that while Trump won Florida two years ago, there was the usual significant vote for the Green and Libertarian parties. They are not there this year; what happens to those voters in Florida??
I think the Green & Libertarians will either sit this one out, vote for Democrats or a few will vote for Republicans, I do not think they will have much effect on this election. we shall soon see.