As Election Day nears, both Democratic and
Republican campaigns are ramping up their efforts to get out the vote.
With the rise of early and absentee voting across the country, campaigns
are increasingly focused on early voting as a method of securing an
early lead in the race.
One way that campaigns try to accomplish this is
to motivate voters to request an absentee ballot. By tracking and
analyzing these requests, campaigns get an early glimpse into how well
their get-out-the-vote efforts are working in the very early stages of
the campaign.
The first batch of absentee ballot request data
suggests that Hillary Clinton may have an early advantage, though Donald
Trump appears to be better positioned in Florida, a key swing state.
The NBC News Data Analytics Lab -- using data provided by TargetSmart
— analyzed absentee ballot requests in six critical battleground states
- Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada and Pennsylvania. The
chart below shows the number of requests received so far.
Click here to review the chart and full article.
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