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Grandma not going to be happy…

Via Tampabay.com:

Based on the votes cast so far in Florida, Democrats should be spooked. Well, so should Republicans for that matter, since the voting points to a razor-thin, too-close-to-call race.

The good news for Hillary Clinton and the Democrats is that pre-Election Day voting by Hispanics has soared. The good news for Donald Trump and Republicans? White voters also are voting in big numbers and two key voter groups for Clinton — African-Americans and voters under age 35 — have not been turning out as they did in 2012.

African-Americans accounted for 22 percent of the votes cast before Election Day in 2012, but only 15 percent so far this year.

It’s no accident, in other words, that Clinton campaigned Saturday at a Bethune-Cookman University football game and in a heavily black neighborhood in Daytona Beach. Or why Bill Clinton today will campaign at the Wildwood Recreation Center in a largely African-American area of St. Petersburg.

Only a week or so ago, many Florida Republicans fretted and Democrats gloated over the trend with mail ballots cast. Democrats had nearly erased the Republicans’ long-standing advantage in mail voting and were positioned to take the lead quickly after early, in-person voting started.

Pundits and some political operatives started to talk about a Clinton rout in Florida. Now, most are back to questioning whether she can eke out a win.

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