Florida early voting thread

[rob in cal]

Thought  this deserved its own thread as early and absentee voting is big in Florida.  Through Thursday, about 462k ballots were in, about 274k absentee the rest through early voting. If final turnout is 2 million, we may be looking at around 25% of the vote already in.

[rob in cal]

The Reuters Ipsos poll which has a Romney 8 point lead released tonite have 29% saying they've already voted, with Romney ahead by 7 in that group.

[rob in cal]

The PPP poll released tonite now has 35% saying they have already voted.  This is probably coming close to the final numbers as early voting ended today, and if you were going to send an absentee ballot off, today would have been about the latest you would want to send it.
Romney is leading by 45 to 35 over Gingrich among these early voters according to the PPP poll which dovetails with other polls.

[rob in cal]

I believe thru last night the new numbers are, 294 k absentee ballots returned (out of 500k requested) and 239 k voting early, so 534k total votes already in, plus what arrives in the mail on Monday and Tuesday. 
The ARG poll claims that 36% said they've already voted and Romney lead Newt 51-33, PPP said Romney leads 45-35 among already voted.

[rob in cal]

New numbers are actually close to about 600k total early/absentee votes.