About 40 million people have voted early in the presidential election

MORE AMERICANS HEADED TO THE POLLS OVER THE WEEKEND TO CAST THEIR BALLOT IN THIS YEAR’S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.  VARIOUS REPORTS PUT THE EARLY VOTING TOTAL AT AROUND 40-MILLION AND COUNTING WITH EIGHT DAYS TO GO BEFORE ELECTION DAY.
ACCORDING TO THE WEB TRACKER, TARGET EARLY,  AS OF THIS RECORDING,   39.4 MILLION AMERICANS HAVE ALREADY VOTED, WITH REGISTERED DEMOCRATS HOLDING ABOUT A ONE-MILLION EDGE IN NUMBERS OVER REPUBLICANS.
CNN IS REPORTING THE EARLY VOTING FIGURE, HAS HIT  40.7 MILLION.
WITH MANY POLITICAL EXPERTS AGREEING THE ELECTION HINGES ON SEVEN BATTLEGROUND STATES.  HERE IS A LOOK AT TRENDS IN FOUR IMPORTANT ONES.
PENNSYLVANIA : REPUBLICANS, VOTING EARLY,  UP 10 % FROM 2020, WITH 30 PERCENT OF PENNSYLVANIANS CASTING PRE-ELECTION BALLOTS BEING REPUBLICAN.   DEMOCRATS HAVE DROPPED BY 11 % SINCE THE LAST GENERAL ELECTION FROM 70 % TO 59%.
IN NORTH CAROLINA, REPUBLICAN TURNOUT HAS INCREASED FROM 29% IN 2020 TO 34 % THIS TIME AROUND, WHILE DEMOCRATS ARE DOWN BY 5% FROM 38% TO 33%.
OUT WEST, IN ARIZONA, THE NUMBER OF REPUBLICANS VOTING EARLY HAS JUMPED FROM 34 % TO 43%.  DEMOCRATS ARE DOWN FROM 41% IN 2020 TO 35% IN 2024.
LASTLY, IN NEVADA, REPUBLICANS HAVE INCREASED THEIR EARLY VOTING TURNOUT FROM 35 % IN 2020 TO 39 % IN 2024,  WHILE DEMOCRATS HAVE SEEN THEIR RATE DROP, OVER THE SAME PERIOD, FROM 41% TO 35%.
36 states offer early voting. PARTY BREAKDOWN IS NOT AVAILABLE IN THE BATTLEGROUND STATES OF GEORGIA,  MICHIGAN AND WISCONSIN.  I’M CN FOR MORE UNBIASED UPDATES, DOWNLOAD THE STRAIGHT ARROW NEWS APP