[SpeedyInTexas]

Thursday 10/20/16: REPs - 369,467, DEMs - 356,635 lead of 12,832 for REPs, 41.7% to 40.2%

We have a much bigger lead this year.

[LS]

But a LOT more total votes then, right? (As one should expect in a mid-term, but still for a while we were ahead of 16 in totals)

[Ravi]

Thanks for that piece of information. We ended with about a 60,000 lead in mail ballots returned by the end.

However there were “only” 2.75 million mail ballots returned in 2016. In this mid-term, we could have that many mail ballots returned which would mean some amount of cannibalization is occurring.