now a half million votes overall have been cast already on pace compared to 2012? somewhat on pace. it looks like it s on pace. that s one of the very important things, particularly for the clinton campaign because obama did so well with the early votings in 2012, they want to meet those expectation. this is 2012 voting. not necessarily this time in the campaign. but the total early and absentee voting from 2012? this is the total. the reason why we want to put this is up a baseline. obama essentially tied the election day vote in 2012 and won the early vote by about 7 point. okay. so his path to victory was by getting people to come out early. again, clinton wants to do this. what we see is over 10% of the early voting places like wisconsin and virginia, key battlegrounds. can we put up what we know about who is turning out to vote in these early states, these crucial states that you have identified here? do we have that breakdown in terms of voter registration data stat
a lot of the parts of the country but he is proud, maybe, that the first lady is getting out there. she is sort of a reluctant warrior. she didn t really want to campaign a lot in the 2006 battle. in 2008 she went 0 the there. now she s everywhere. i was in chicago. she was battling there for the democratic snd for her husband s old senate seat in illinois, she is going to denver for senator michael bennet. they re all key battlegrounds. the president s been in some of the places. might not be back. they think she s a huge asset. you mentioned her popularity. president s approval rating, 45%. she s 20 points higher, 65% in our latest polling, and when i spoke to her advisers, they realize that s because the president has a lot more responsibility. he gets a lot of the bad news on his desk. she is able to focus on good issues that are positive and