Latino voters are showing up in record numbers in Florida early voting

[book_worm]

Hillary Clinton's campaign just got some very good news from Florida.

Her campaign is reporting that an "unprecedented" 133,000 Latinos have cast early ballots ahead of the November 8 election — a 99% increase in Latino voters compared to the same point in 2012, BuzzFeed News reported. The 133,000 votes consist of vote-by-mail and absentee ballots.

Early voting in Florida began Monday. The state's Division of Elections released numbers Tuesday that showed 1.6 million Floridians have already voted in the election via early voting or mailed-in ballots.

The Clinton campaign called it a promising sign for the Democratic nominee because Latinos make up 17% of the electorate in the swing state

http://www.businessinsider.com/latino-voters-break-records-early-voting-florida-hillary-clinton-2016-10

[citood]

1. I know my state doesn't swing

And rarely is included in electiral calculus...but in Topeka, KS (in a county with 11% hispanic), I saw no hispanics voting today.

[Jarqui]

2. I didn't look too closely but at a glance

it appeared that early voting in Texas was way up and the counties it seemed higher up in were Latino.

Don't accept that as a fact. It was just an impression glancing over the numbers I saw. Hopefully someone checks it out to verify it.

Jan Brewer, past Az Gov saying Latinos don't vote might be stimulating something there as well.

Early/mail in voting was about 37% of 2012 votes. Looks to be even higher this year. Being down in the polls at this point in time, while the early votes are being cast in the battleground states, makes it even tougher for Trump and those GOP candidates on downticket races.

[Hortensis]

3. Sounds wonderful. Please let them reject Rubio.

He's exactly the kind of bad pol we all need to kick out of politics.

Interesting, Citood and Jarqui. Thanks for your observations.