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> Have you seen the early voting? Rs are LEADING in Miami-Dade, a Clinton county.

Define "LEADING" please, because the actual numbers for voting in Miami-Dade county [1] as of today are:

Mail Voting

Rep 83,605

Dem 158,788

NPA 82,533 (NPA = No Party Affiliation)

In-Person Early Voting

Rep 61,273

Dem 61,548

NPA 35,296

Totals

Rep 144,878

Dem 220,336

In what way does that constitute Republicans "LEADING"?

[1] https://countyballotfiles.floridados.gov/VoteByMailEarlyVoti...



That’s a 20 point lead for Biden, and the data above shows that Republicans are more likely to vote in person than Democrats. (1:2 margin among mail ins, and 1:1 among early in person voting).

Clinton won Miami Dade by 30 points (65-35) and still lost Florida by 1.2%.


"Leading" is incorrect, but modeling has assumed D's need a 70-30% advantage in mail voting. This is because of polling regarding COVID where R's are less worried about early IPEV and more likely voting on election day. The current numbers are nowhere near that, so I wouldn't be surprised if Florida is red.


Uh... whose modelling? We've never had a pandemic election, I think it's fair to say no one has any idea which demographics are more/less affected by an early voting drive. All we can say is that a whole lot of people are voting early.


Most people believe more Democrats are voting via mail (Trump had been criticizing mail voting).

We do know how many registered voters from each party are voting in some circumstances.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/23/early-voting-number... is a decent overview


>Most people believe more Democrats are voting via mail

It's not necessary to "believe" anything when it comes to Florida. We have the actual hard number of ballots requested and returned, broken down by party registration. More Democrats are voting via mail. They're also voting in-person in equal numbers to Republicans, at least so far.


> It's not necessary to "believe" anything when it comes to Florida.

I think we are in agreement here. That's what my link shows.

My understanding is that not all states collect party affiliation when sending ballots though. It's possible I'm misinformed though.




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