they ought to make it easier for people to vote. this week we saw long lines of people. look at that. turning out in the heat to cast ballot ballots for the first week of early voting in georgia. but we do have early voting data from the more than 4 million votes that have been cast around the country. you can't open up those ballots. we can't tell you who those votes are for literally, but based on party registration and modeling data, the consensus from everybody who is looking at the 4 million early votes cast thus far is that it's really good news for the democrats. the clinton campaign, quote, has a greater percentage of banked votes, meaning votes already cast than president obama did at this point four years ago. looking at the swing states for which we've got early voting data already, clinton, that means has a higher proportion of the votes that have been cast already than obama did at this point in the race in 2012. you might remember that obama won the race in 2012 by kind of