The Republican Party touted figures yesterday, Oct. 29, showing that Republican returned absentee ballots are 18.82 percent ahead of Democrat ones.
The GOP says that 63,717 absentee Republican absentee ballots have been returned so far compared to 42,013 for the Dems.
In 2008, the Republicans, when the smoke cleared, had just 1.92 percent lead in absentee ballots in the state 137,850 to 132, 170.