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lovmuffin -> RE: Polls and Presidential Predictions 2012 (11/2/2012 9:00:27 PM)
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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl
Obama Ohio Edge
Early, in-person voting started Oct. 2 in Ohio and already more than a million people have voted in a state where 5.7 million did so in 2008. A Time magazine poll of likely Ohio voters last week showed Obama with a two-to-one lead, 60 percent to 30 percent, among those who’ve already voted.
Obama’s campaign is banking large numbers of votes in Ohio counties that backed him four years ago. In Franklin County, which includes Columbus and surroundings, 141,019 people had already voted through Oct. 26, according to the local election board. That represents about a quarter of the county’s total vote in 2008, when 44 percent of the vote was cast before Election Day.
In Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland and its suburbs, 161,889 had cast early ballots as of the end of last week, also about a quarter of the 2008 vote.
Ohio early voters favored Democratic candidates in 2010 and 2006, while Election-Day voters favored Republican candidates, a study of early voting by the University of Akron concluded. Early voters were more likely to be women, older, and of lower income and education attainment, the 2010 study said.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-10-29/democrats-hold-early-voting-advantage-over-republicans#p2
Actually what I heard is as of today democratic turn out is down by over 173,000 in early voting and republican turnout is up over 60,000. Even if the dems are ahead in the vote tally their running a deficit of about 240,000 compared to 2008 in voter turnout.
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