Kos:IL Dems optimistic with early voting, GOP pissy

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/10/30/915199/-IL-Dems-optimistic-with-early-voting,-GOP-pissy

Dems crow about the early voting numbers in Illinois:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2010/10/illinois_democrats_optimistic.html

* So far, 298,113 Illinois voters have cast ballots including 174,739 Democrats (58.6% of those who have voted so far) and 83,166 Republicans (27.9%). (Note: Illinois does not have party registration, so Democrats are defined as those who have voted in a Democratic primary and Republicans are defined as those who have voted in a Republican primary.)

Now this may be spin, but it's based on hard data. I'd love to see what flaws might exist in this analysis.

So how does the GOP respond?

UPDATE
Reply from a Republican Strategist to Democratic memo:

"DNC memo on Illinois early vote reads as nothing more than a CYA. The fact that they cooked up numbers on a Friday night right before POTUS arrives tells you everything you need to know. Won't be enough to explain loss of Obama's seat on Tuesday. Nice try though." END UPDATE

Um, what? What numbers were cooked? How does this fit the definition of CYA (I don't see any excuses or finger pointing)? Is there any rational, logical, or statistical response to the data provided by the Dems?

Nope. Just a pissy, bitchy, snide, hollow, anonymous insult.

In other words, true to form for your modern Republican Party.

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1. I had the same reaction. WTF is he talking about?

Do they have different or better numbers? obviously not..thus the lame response.