There was a post a few days ago as of Oct 10 it was about was GOP 657k and Dims 646k. Colorado had 1.7 million absentee votes in 2008 and about 3.2 million voted. Thats just from the election statistics.. also in 2008 early voting there started Oct 19th not Oct 9 as this year.
As I say a strategy based on 2008 isn't going to work very well in 2012 in the West...