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book_worm

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Fri Oct 21, 2016, 02:01 PM Oct 2016

Early Vote shifts heavily to democrats in key states

“Catalist, a voter data firm that works mostly with Democratic campaigns, provided The Washington Post with early vote numbers from several battleground states that allowed us to compare current returns with the number of ballots returned in years past.”

“In seven states for which returned ballot data was available by party, Democratic ballots made up a larger percentage of what had come back by the 20-day mark (that is, by 20 days before Election Day) than in 2012 (or in 2008 for Florida). In some cases, like Arizona and North Carolina, the shift to the Democrats was substantial.”

https://politicalwire.com/2016/10/21/early-vote-shifted-heavily-democrats-key-states/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/21/in-several-key-states-the-early-vote-has-shifted-heavily-to-the-democrats-since-2012/?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_earlyvote-910a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

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