VIRGINIA ATTORNEY GENERAL: EARLY VOTING FAVORS ROMNEY
Attorney General Cuccinelli wrote to supporters and declared that Republican-leaning areas have seen an increase in early voting from 2008, while localities which Obama won in 2008 have seen declines in their early voting totals from 2008.
These early voting numbers -- and Cuccinelli's analysis -- indicate that Obama would need turnout to match or surpass that of 2008 and to win independent voters if he is to win on Election Day. Nearly every poll shows Romney leading among independents in Virginia, and Democrats will likely not have the six-point advantage they had at the polls in 2008.
In 2008 506,000 absentee ballots were cast; in 2012 357,000
PUT VIRGINIA IN THE BAG FOR ROMNEY.