With 25 days left to go in this election, Democrats have all the enthusiasm in voter registrations and early voting in Florida.
MIAMI — Approximately 311,000 Floridians cast absentee ballots by Friday morning in the nation’s biggest battleground state, and the numbers are increasingly moving in favor of Democrats and their White House nominee, Hillary Clinton.
Compared to the day before and this point four years ago, Democrats are catching up to Republicans in the number of voted absentee ballots—a part of the election that the Florida GOP used to own. But now, Republicans are ahead of Democrats by just 1.9 percentage points (about 42-40 percent), compared with a 3 percent advantage held Thursday by the GOP and a 3.9-point Republican advantage at this point relative to Election Day in 2012, state elections data shows.
At the same time, the Florida Democratic Party is blowing away the Republican Party of Florida in submitting new voter-registration forms. Democrats have submitted 503,000 and Republicans fewer than 60,000 of the 2 million registration forms collected this year by about 700 third-party groups, according to the 2016 data posted online by the state Division of Elections.
Part of the big difference, other than Donald Trump, is that the Clinton campaign has a strong ground game there, whereas Trump has . . . rallies. Where he says the kinds of things Donald Trump says.
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