Holy buckets...Florida numbers!

[CoffeeCat]

CNN reporting that 4% of Florida has reported and Obama up by 10.

[Skinner]

1. Too early. That lead will not hold. (nt)

[CoffeeCat]

10. Absolutely... John King just showed

That one county was a solid Dem county and the other was solid red--consistent counties in terms of past voting behavior.

Yes, these numbers will continue to see saw all night, but it is nice to see a lead, however small, nonetheless.

[Baitball Blogger]

21. Do you think it's the early voting?

Generally, the red counties report their numbers early because they're smaller.

[Kalidurga]

2. Hope the lead holds.

Florida needs to be overwhelmingly Obama to avoid hassles.

[KaryninMiami]

3. Can I double rec? Just poll watched 5 places

Would love to see that number hold!

[Lucy Goosey]

4. The 10 point lead wont hold...

...but this is still great news!

[Pab Sungenis]

5. Panhandle closes an hour later

And is much redder. That will narrow but not by much.

[gcomeau]

6. At only 4% reporting...

The primary point of importance is reporting from WHERE? Don't get overexcited if you don't know that and what the implications are, this early the vote totals will be all over the map.

[Terra Alta]

7. That gives me hope.

Obama likely won't win by such a large margin in FL, but I do hope he hangs on to the lead.

[DerelictDeminGA]

8. aren't the early results usually

from rural/non urban areas?

[JelloBiafra1]

9. Hi, newbie here.

It's way too early, but hope this means something good. Keeping my powder dry.

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. What would Jello do?

[William769]

15. Jiggle? Wiggle?

[Fire Walk With Me]

17. ...

[William769]

12. Just changed it's now 50-50.

[CoffeeCat]

13. 5 % in now. Romney ahead by 700 votes

It's going to be a long night, as far as Fla goes anyway!

[beachbumbob]

16. big democratic counties don't issue results

until late>>> palm beach, miami-dade and broward

[beachbumbob]

14. wait until 98% of precincts report before getting too worked up

[Andrew_J]

18. can't forget the western panhandle

it's extremely conservative, and those polls close and hour later because of the time change. The votes west of Tallahassee can be expected to be anywhere from 60-75% GOP (going by '04 and '08).
It's more south central LA (lower Alabama) than anything like the peninsula.

[kdmorris]

20. True... but down here in Palm Beach/Broward/Miami Dade

We have about 4X the number of people than the entire panhandle and it's mostly Democratic.

[JBoy]

19. 20% reported - Obama 50, Romney 49