12,853,910 Americans have already voted

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://elections.gmu.edu/early_vote_2012.html

2012 Early Voting Statistics

Last updated: Oct. 28, 2012

Total number of ballots cast in all reporting jurisdictions: 12,853,910
Scroll down for a table of statistics on ballots returned and ballots requested or sent.

[MountainMazza]

1. I'm in there!

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. me too!

[ffr]

2. The fortunate ones

Any Democrat not restricted to voting only on election day is asking for torture & disappointment. If you have a chance to early vote, do it. It took me 5 minutes because I timed it right.

Victory is your vote away from reality.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. Two here.

[ffr]

4. Outstanding! Thank you!

[Arugula Latte]

5. And I helped! (old Shake 'n' Bake commercial reference)

[Tigress DEM]

7. DO we KNOW how many of the early votes are FOR Obama?

[grantcart]

9. No but based on where they are voting from we have an indication that

we are ahead in NC, NV, IA, OH

that we are overperfoming in FL but behind (but a lot less 200,000) than last year

and that we seem to be underperforming in CO.

[demgrrrll]

10. The Tampa Florida headline was not good today seems they think that the white voters

leaving Obama for Romney, I don't know why I think this but I feel this could all turn on a dime again for Obama in Florida.

[grantcart]

11. could be, but you might be interested in this from the Obama campaign

I have no confidence that we will win Florida, but if we do it will be an EC landslide for Obama, Romney has no chance at winning.

http://www.barackobama.com/fl/entry/fl-inside-the-early-vote-numbers-florida

First, Democrats have dramatically cut into Republicans’ advantage in vote-by-mail—an area where the Republicans have historically been stronger. At this point four years ago, the Republican advantage exceeded 257,000 voters. But this year, it’s just over 33,500—an 87 percent drop. In a state President Obama won by nearly 240,000 votes, that's a 223,500-vote swing even the dizziest Republican can't spin away. Democrats have also cut the GOP’s 2008 advantage in absentee ballots returned so far by 55 percent.

Why does all this matter? Remember: In spite of the vote-by-mail disadvantages we faced in 2008, President Obama still won Florida. In 2012, we’re closing those gaps.

Second, the Florida electorate—just like the rest of the nation’s—has grown much more diverse since 2008:
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Of the over 300,000 Hispanics who have registered to vote since President Obama was elected four years ago, nine out of ten signed up as Democrats or Independents, and only 10 percent registered as Republicans.

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More than 100,000 African-American and Caribbean-American voters registered since November 2008.

•
Among those who have cast mail ballots already, 14 percent are African-American, Latino Democrats, or Latino Independents—up from 12 percent at this point in 2008. Latino Republicans have fallen from 7 percent of mail voters at this point in 2008 to just 5 percent today.

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We estimate minority voters will make up more than 30 percent of the vote in Florida this year, up from 28 percent in 2008

[hrmjustin]

8. That site is a great place to go. I check it every morning.

[Ellipsis]

12. 13,764,936 n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

13. 14,385,983!