A look at early voting in key states: (AP)

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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iXAkBilVhjbpsgAAHfgp6kGEShvwD944B1D00

_Florida: About 2.6 million people have already voted in a state where absentee ballots overwhelmingly favored President Bush in the razor-thin 2000 election. Among those voting so far this year, 45 percent are registered Democrats and 39 percent Republicans.

_North Carolina: About 1.6 million people have already voted — 54 percent are registered Democrats and 29 percent are Republicans. About 100,000 newly registered voters have signed up and voted at North Carolina's one-stop voting centers, McDonald said. Among them, Democrats outnumbered Republicans by about 2-1, he said.

_Iowa: About 340,000 people have already voted — 49 percent are registered Democrats and 29 percent are Republicans.

_Colorado: About 815,000 people have voted — 39 percent are registered Democrats and 37 percent are Republicans.

_Nevada: About 342,000 people have already voted in Clark and Washoe Counties, which contain nearly 90 percent of the state's population. Among those voters, 53 percent are registered Democrats and 30 percent are Republicans.

_New Mexico: About 111,000 people have voted in Bernalillo County, the state's largest. Among them, 55 percent are registered Democrats and 33 percent are Republicans.

_Georgia: Black voters make up about 35 percent of those who have already voted — a big increase from the 2004 election, when 25 percent of the state's electorate was black. Blacks voted for Obama by ratio of 9-1 in Georgia's Democratic primary this year.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. McCainamania?

[napi21]

2. What do you think this really means? Are the Pubies just not going to

vote? Are the Pubies for some reason, waiting to vote on election day? Are there really that many more Dems voting this year? I honestly don't know! I guess we won't know for sure until Nov. 5th!

[WI_DEM]

3. Colorado early numbers based on reg are pretty close other than that not bad.

[nyccitizen]

5. FYI, the Colorado figures are 80% absentee, 20% in person...

Absentee ballots always favor GOP so the fact that Dems still have a slight lead is good news.

[tekisui]

4. This means the latest polls and those through Monday

can tighten, and we will still have a strong lead. mcPOW is going to be in a position where he needs to get nearly 60% of the Election Day votes. I don't see it happening.