While it may only appeal to an election nerd like myself, I think one of the most fascinating developments taking place this election is the early voting numbers. There is an incredible divergence between who is winning the early vote nationally and who is winning it in the swing states. According to both Gallup and [...]

Given that Romney leads nationally with early voters, one can assume that there is nothing about the demographic make up of Democrats that makes them more likely to vote early than Republicans. So the fact that Obama holds a huge lead among early voters only in the swing states strongly indicates his campaign has a vastly superior ground game.

President Obama appears to hold a significant edge in early voting In basically every important swing state, which should given him a built-in advantage heading into November 6th. The Obama campaign ground game has been very successful at convincing Democrats and Obama supporters to cast their ballots well ahead of election day.

The Supreme Court won’t stop early voting in the final days before the election in Ohio. From The Hill: In a one-sentence order with no explanation, the court rejected Ohio Republicans’ efforts to block early voting three days before Election Day. The court left in place a lower court’s ruling that said early voting had [...]

Early voting officially began today in Ohio, the second largest swing state and one of the most highly contested. From the Columbus Dispatch: After months of nonstop campaigning and TV commercials, the election of 2012 started to count at the ballot box today. Early in-person voting started in each of Ohio’s 88 counties at 8 [...]

Mitt Romney is currently trailing in the polls with only 42 days until the election. That “42 days” number, however, overstates the time he really has left to change the dynamics of the race. Thanks to early voting rules, the actual amount of time he has is significantly less. Most of the important swing states [...]

A bit of surprisingly good news for Democrats in what has otherwise been a very bad few weeks: PPP now finds the Pennsylvania Senate race effectively tied. Democrat Joe Sestak leads Republican Pat Toomey by a single point. PPP (PDF) (10/17-18) Joe Sestak (D) 46 Pat Toomey (R) 45 Undecided 9 What is helping Sestak [...]

One-stop early voting has been underway for several days in North Carolina. Democracy North Carolina is out with a new analysis of turnout in the first three days of early voting. Not surprisingly, as we are seeing everywhere, there is an increase in the number of people who are choosing to vote early or vote [...]

Technically, today is sort of election day in Ohio, Vermont, Georgia, South Dakota, and Iowa, given that voters can start voting in person for the midterm elections. Vote by mail ballots are being mailed out today in Ohio, and this is the first day individuals can vote early in person. There is also one week [...]