High-Turnout Early Vote Favors GOP | 2435

Good morning, I’m still reporting on the election.
More than 35 million early votes have been counted nationwide as of Monday – 60% more than the 21 million votes cast during the entire 2014 midterm election!
Republican voters have outpaced Democrats in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Montana, Tennessee and Texas. Democrat voters led only in Nevada and New Mexico.
That does not bode well for the Desperate Dems because the early vote total in 2016 was much higher – 46 million. Translation – even though the early vote is high for a midterm, it is still dwarfed by the last Presidential race.
Historically, Democrats always lead on the early voting which favors younger voters, while Republicans rely on the heavier election day voting when the older voter is used to casting their ballots.
A heavy early vote for Republicans will be difficult for Democrats to overcome.
Interestingly, in deep blue New Mexico, early voter turnout has broken records, but one group of traditionally Dem voters has been surprisingly absent. According to Bernalillo County Clerk Linda Stover:
“Women are out-voting men about two to one, which is average. [However,] millennials are still not voting. It’s the older folks that are carrying more of the vote.”