There's a surge in early voting. And Florida Democrats are closing in on the GOP

[DonViejo]

BY STEVE BOUSQUET

Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau

November 04, 2018 11:21 AM

Updated November 04, 2018 01:10 PM

Early voting surged to its highest levels yet in Florida’s biggest counties on Saturday, giving Democrats new hope for a “blue wave” that could catapult Andrew Gillum to the governor’s mansion and keep Bill Nelson in the U.S. Senate.

Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Hillsborough and Orange, the five biggest “blue” counties, all reported their highest one-day early voting totals of the 2018 campaign.

As a result, on a day when President Donald Trump rallied thousands of Republicans in Pensacola, the GOP’s ballot advantage over the Democrats shrank to six-tenths of 1 percentage point (0.6), with GOP ballots at 40.8 percent of the statewide total and Democrats at 40.2 percent.

Those numbers are the combined early and vote-by-mail ballots cast by Republican and Democratic voters in all 67 counties.

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[sunonmars]

1. This has the updated numbers, Dems now in lead.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211365471

[Funtatlaguy]

2. And the better news is that independents expected to break Dem.

[sunonmars]

3. There are 948,000 indy votes in the early vote already.....thats a big unknown.