Posted on 10/25/2016 11:52:11 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Newly released numbers in Florida indicate a head-to-head battle for the state’s 29 electoral votes.
Republicans account for about 654,000, or 41.5 percent of the votes, while Democrats account for 638,000, or 40.5 percent of the votes Tuesday morning, according to Politico Playbook.
Florida Republicans cast 3 percent more ballots than Democrats by absentee mail-in voting in 2o12, according to NBC News. But, by Nov. 1, 2012 (five days before the Nov. 6 election date), fortunes were reversed, with Democrats turning in 3 percent more ballots. With 43 percent of the 4.3 million votes belonging to Democrats, and 40 percent belonging to registered Republicans, the results were unquestionable.
The current 1 percent advantage maintained by Republicans may not hold as in-person voting begins this week. The past two election cycles reveal that while Republicans dominate the absentee-by-mail voting bloc, such advantages are not propelling Republican nominees to a Florida victory.
Republicans cast more votes that Democrats through absentee-by-mail by a margin of 49 to 33 percent, and yet, Arizona Sen. John McCain lost Florida to then-Sen. Barack Obama by almost 3 percent. Obama defeated Romney in Florida during the 2012 election, despite Romney outperforming the president with absentee-by-mail votes.
It is worth noting that in such a turbulent election year, it is hard to determine which percentage of Republicans are supporting the top of the ticket and Republican nominee Donald Trump, and the same can be said about Democrat candidates for public office, including presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who engaged in a bruising primary battle with insurgent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders....
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Democrats will not vote 100% for Hillary. Her numbers among democrats are closer to 75%, generous by too far.
Republicans are voting 90%+ for Trump. This election will be a landslide for freedom and the American Way.
Well, I wish I didn’t, but I know several NeverTrumpers that are “conservative”.
We stil have 15 days to wake them up!!
Media narrative = lying for Democrats.
Spoke with a life long Democrat in Miami today. Black, Haitian male. He is voting Trump.
How can your mind even tolerate such a thing. Pollsters used to pride themselves on accuracy and being unbiased.
I would be happy to have just a "reasonable" standard of honesty without their "narrative".
Early voting will look good for Evita. I have been a conservative for donkey’s years and I do not personally know a single Conservative who who does the early voting.
I do however work at a University, and everyone here (unanimously Liberal) votes early... just say’n
Of course they would. They’re trying to get their queen elected.
If (heaven forbid) we loose, I swear I will kick these never Trumper’s asses, if I hear them complain about liberties being lost.
unexpected /s
True.
They will blame Trump and his supporters.
Never-Trumpers are insane - pretending to be intellectually superior, yet doing things that are completely irrational.
ABCNNBCBSFOX keeps telling us it’s all over but the crying for Trump..........Psy-Ops 101................
I cannot discern data that validates the headline.
In the most recent OH poll on RCP, only 73% of Republicans are voting for Trump, while 78% of Dems are voting for Clinton.
I don't believe Trump will receive 90+% of Republican votes in FLA.
Please everyone with friends in Florida and pennsylvanjA and Michigan etc etc please get then to vote for us — every vote counts! Thanks.
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