[profit_guy]

“So, if you figure the Ds are already down 175,000 votes after absentee voting, Rs have to secure only 85,000 votes outside of Cuyahoga.”

...but isn’t the deadline Nov 3 for requesting ABs? As of right now the gap is 166,000

[LS]

Apparently I'm not making myself clear. I'm not dealing with the gap in D over R in absentees. I'm dealing with the SHORTFALL in Ds/Rs from 08, and the implications for the general.

McCain won OH in the general. He lost in early voting. He lost from Cuyahoga Co. So the implication is that by election day, based on the early-absentee shortfalls, the Rs only have to make up 85,000, which they can do easily. Red counties can come out 3:1 if history is a guide---but they didn't in 08.

[LS]

“gap of 166,000” in ballots requested? Or returned?