The Latest: More Than 2 Million Have Voted in Fla. Already

[WhiteTara]

Source: ABC

More than 2 million Florida voters have already made their choice for president in the state's winner-take-all primary.

The state Division of Elections reported late Monday that almost 1.2 million Republicans had cast ballots, compared with nearly 850,000 Democrats.

Projections are that about 4 million voters will have participated in the Florida primary. Election day is Tuesday, but voters in the Sunshine State have been voting for weeks via absentee and early in-person voting. It is a closed primary.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/latest-carson-trump-off-stage-37628888

[think]

1. One of those is mine for Bernie....

[onehandle]

2. Less than 5% under 30 in the Democratic Primary.

Uh-oh.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Old farts rule.

[Fuddnik]

11. These 2 old farts already voted for Bernie.

[dchill]

26. +2!

[TheCowsCameHome]

31. So did these two

in MA.

[hay rick]

19. Don't know where you got that number but the real number probably isn't much better.

I checked the area for which I have ready access to statistics. 6.7% of registered Democrats 30 and under voters have voted by mail or voted early. 31.2% of registered Democrats 68-80 have done the same- and this being Florida, there are 50+% more voters in the older cohort.

The OP is misleading when it refers to "the state's winner-take-all primary." The Republican primary is winner-take-all, The Democratic primary is not. The low young voter turnout continues the trend of recent years. I have seen a lot of enthusiasm for Bernie locally, but the national campaign early on directed most of that energy into phone banking to the early primary states, not into local efforts. The national campaign also made no real attempt to get younger voters to register as Democrats by February 16, the deadline for party registration in our closed primary state. I think the Sanders campaign made an early strategic decision to focus scarce resources for March 15 primaries on rust belt states.

[JonLeibowitz]

20. No Democratic primary, including Ohio, is winner take all. All are proportional.

[hay rick]

24. Thanks for the correction.

I edited my post.

[Major Hogwash]

32. That's because it is a more Democratic method of selecting our candidate.

And the caucuses are even more like actual Democracy because we have to show up to give a voice to our vote.

[Cavallo]

29. I didn't know it wasn't winner take all. That helps! Thanks for the info!

[d_legendary1]

22. I'm 33 and voted for Sanders

Missed it by that much!

[SylviaD]

3. Republicans outnumber Democrats in Florida?

Something seems off here...

Or has the Democratic turnout really been this disappointing?

Are these numbers reliable?

[GreatGazoo]

6. that's 50% of the total votes cast in 2008

seems like very good turnout for early voting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Democratic_primary,_2008

[Dr Hobbitstein]

12. The 2008 Florida Dem primary didn't count.

Obama and a few others weren't even on the ballot. The Florida Dem party decided to change the voting date, and the DNC said no. FL Dem party didn't listen and it was known early on that FL wasn't going to count for the primaries.

[juxtaposed]

16. I was a delegate during that B/S. HRC had the state in her hand. Edwards was doing good and Obama

had a couple benches of supporters at the state convention, very little. Who knew what would take place in a few months.

[Kip Humphrey]

7. 2 candidates vs 4. Per candidate stream of voters, Dems are 23% up on repug candidate

turnout. Yeah us!

[MADem]

15. There is a heavy retired military presence in the Panhandle and JAX area.

Elsewhere, too. A lot of those guys are GOP.

Older people tend to vote.


Also, keep this in mind--there are two choices in the Democratic race. While here on DU we like to emphasize stark differences, out there in the real world, there are a LOT of people who will vote for either one, and do it HAPPILY. I KNOW people who say "Either one will do--I'm happy now, I'll worry when it comes to the general."

In the GOP race, they've got Cruz, Home Slice Rubio, Nutcase Sunbird Trump, and Sane (relatively) Kasich. They woulda had JEB! too only he bailed out...in short, they've got a RACE--a real REASON to get out and vote.

With such a varying selection, I'm not surprised that the GOP are turning out in droves.

[Scootaloo]

27. Oh yeah. Florida is pretty strongly republican

It's been drifting purple in Presidential years, but locally it's like Texas with bigger hats and wet boots.

[ancianita]

4. Here's one source on the county by county registration, but I haven't examined it closely.

The totals look close. How the Republicans run the election can affect the difference, I suspect.

http://dos.myflorida.com/elections/data-statistics/voter-registration-statistics/voter-registration-monthly-reports/voter-registration-current-by-county/

[shenmue]

5. I voted with a mail-in ballot

I don't want any Republican assholes trying to screw us by not sending enough voting machines. So I make them count my piece of paper.

[steve2470]

8. two of those votes are for Bernie, from my brother and I! :) nt

[ConsiderThis_2016]

10. Winner take all... GOP ONLY

[juxtaposed]

13. I voted the first day,the first hour in my area for Bernie.

[humbled_opinion]

14. I wonder how Hillary

will close the enthusiasm gap and unite the party for the GE.... I think Trump will have an easier time since he is the carnival barker all he needs is a sensible low key VP pick and everyone unites full blown nuts, just nuts, a little nuts and average.... The question is how will Hillary do it, Trump will be reminding us all the way to NOV that we coulda had Bernie....

[hay rick]

28. I have the same anxiety.

We need to get the millions of younger voters who are getting screwed by current policies involved as volunteers and voters if we are going to turn things around. I don't think most of them believe Hillary will be a significant agent of much-needed change.

[Thespian2]

17. One of those ballots was mine...

My last US address was in Florida, so I have already sent in my international ballot...For Bernie, of course...

[vdogg]

18. That link takes me to a different article.

[WhiteTara]

34. they keep adding stories and

you have to scroll down. Sorry.

[mia]

21. Voted early in Florida

for Bernie. May the best candidate win!

[d_legendary1]

23. Same here!

Got the wife, a few coworkers, and a few friends to do the same. Hope for the best!

[fbc]

25. C'mon Florida! prove you are better than the rest of the deep south!

[Zira]

30. Go Bernie! Go Bernie!

[FlaGranny]

33. I'm going today

I'm voting for Bernie. So is my husband. Even if Bernie can''t take Florida, all his supporters need to get out there and vote for him. Let the world know that a lot of us know what a Democrat should be.