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Starting this morning in Iowa, just about every day for the next 40 is Election Day.
At 8 a.m. Central time (9 a.m. in Washington), Iowa becomes the first swing state to begin early voting, meaning that voters can walk into any of the 99 county auditors offices or satellite polling places and cast their absentee ballots. They can also mail them.
Iowas strategic importance has made it the focus of intense attention from both the Obama and Romney campaigns. On the surface, at least, it would appear that Obama has a significant jump on the early balloting. At close of business Tuesday, 114,585 Democrats had requested absentee ballots from election officials; compared to 22,364 Republicans, according to the office of Secretary of State Matt Schultz. Thats a better than 5-to-1 margin.
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This pretty well jives with the 5-1 margin:
If the polls are right, the GOP ticket has a lot of ground to make up.
A Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Marist Poll taken last week found Romney trailing Obama by 8 percentage points, a finding that mirrored recent internal polls from Democrats and Republicans alike. The poll also found that only 40 percent had positive feelings about Romney, down from 43 percent in May. Conversely, Obama saw his favorability rating improve to 53 percent from 48 percent over that same period.
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