Ohio doesn’t break things down by party, but I think there’s reason to believe that Clinton is doing well there, too.
In Ohio, election officials reported Monday that more than 524,000 voters had submitted absentee ballot applications. That’s up from nearly 485,000 during a similar period in 2012, when a record 1.87 million absentee ballots ultimately were cast by mail and in person, according to the secretary of state’s office.
The reason I suspect this is good news is that I can see that requests from Republicans are flat in Iowa and that returns are down in North Carolina. In addition, Democrats tend to utilize early voting more. Therefore, an increase in overall requests in Ohio suggests an advantage for Clinton and less of a probability of the enthusiasm drop-off we see in Iowa.
Overall, the data here provide a mixed and ambiguous message. There’s definitely a problem in Iowa, which we’ve seen reflected in the polls. But, in this trio of states, Iowa has the fewest Electoral Votes and is therefore the least important. Signs of strength in North Carolina more than offset concerns about Iowa, and the numbers out of Ohio may be hard to gauge but they’re not immediately troublesome for the Clinton campaign.
http://washingtonmonthly.com/2016/09...nd-tea-leaves/
Let the author be right
Please let the bulk of those OH ballot requests be minorities, women, college students
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