Ohio shocker: GOP closes early voting gap

Thursday, October 04, 2012 Ohio shocker: GOP closes early voting gap, boosting Romney The Washington Examiner reports: In a remarkable reversal of fortune for President Obama in Ohio, the GOP has closed the huge gap in absentee ballot requests used by early voters that favored the Democrats and the president in 2008, setting up what one state analyst said could be a Mitt Romney blowout on Election Day. There's more: While in 2008, 33 percent of the 1,158,301 absentee ballots went to Democrats and just 19 percent to registered Republicans, a 14-point gap, this year 29 percent are being requested by Democrats and 24 percent by Republicans, a five-point gap http://nalert.blogspot.com/