Obama camp provides latest early voting numbers to Ben Smith at Politico

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Plouffe provides the numbers to back up his claims on this morning's conference call. Looks great...but, what's up with my Colorado?? Looks like some calls are in order!

Obama aides: We're winning

On a conference call that reminds me a bit of those calls David Plouffe would hold in the primary to insist (accurately, it turns out) that Obama had already won, Obama aides told reporters that their position is extremely strong.

In particular, national field director Jon Carson made the case that he is already winning meaningfully in the early votes, and offered some statistics against the argument that these are people who would have voted early anyway and are just casting their ballots with extra enthusiasm.

"A higher percentage of our vote is new Democrats and we have a lot more new Democrats," he said, going over totals in North Carolina, Nevada, Florida and Iowa that seem to suggest that new and sporadic voters are voting at high rates.

That's a key claim, and I'll add Carson's numbers when I confirm the details.

UPDATE: The Obama campaign's numbers are after the jump.


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TO: Interested Parties

FR: Jon Carson, Obama-Biden Campaign Field Director

RE: State of the early vote

DA: October 24, 2008



According to information from Secretaries of State from all over the country, Democrats are voting early at significantly higher rates than Republicans compared to 2004 and new and sporadic voting Democrats are voting early at higher rates than new or sporadic voting Republicans.



Below is the data on early voting I provided on the conference call earlier this afternoon.



Democrats are voting early at significantly higher rates than Republicans compared to 2004:



North Carolina – 2008 to date

All Votes By Party Registration

DEM


520,064


56%

REP


254,515


27%

UNA


155,476


17%



North Carolina – 2004 Final Early and Absentee Vote Numbers

All Votes By Party Registration

DEM


479,305


48%

REP


363,294


37%

UNA


149,632


15%


More at link:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Obama_aides_Were_winning.html?showall

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1. Those numbers look great, but why would they release them?

Also, the Ohio info is conspicuously missing.

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2. I believe they released them

To back up their claim that Obama and the Dems look good in the early voting. Apparently it was stated by Plouffe in this morning's conference call and the media asked for numbers.

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3. These are some fascinating numbers

Especially if you factor in the independents leaning Obama.