Election Day is less than a week away. This year, of course, it is more like

election season. More than 74 million people have already voted.

Y'all know the lines are going to be long. You know, they're shutting it down a lot of locations.

We only have one absentee ballot drop-up location in the entire county, which is

asked to nine to think about. Mark Stanley, he voted earlier this month that Texas

Southern University, a historically black institution in Houston, he waited in a

long line to do it. So I said instead of thinking about all the politics and

thinking about how many ways they can shut your voice down, I said the best way to

do it is to go out, get it taken care of already, have my mask on, make sure we're

well protected, and make sure that our voice started properly.

Get it taken care of already. Well, a lot of Americans seem to have that attitude.

That number 74 million votes, that is up from 71 million just hours ago. In fact,

so many people appear to be racing to cast early votes, the number will

almost certainly be higher by the time you hear this. But the bottom line voters

have already cast more than half of the total votes counted in 2016.

We've already passed any raw number of early votes in any prior election in the US

history. Michael McDonald runs the US elections project at the University of

Florida, which tracks the early vote. He predicted last year that 150 million

people would vote in this election, which would make it the highest turnout since

1908. If anything, I think by the end of the week, I'll probably be up in that

forecast. Consider this, the early vote doesn't tell us much about who's going to win.

What it does tell us is that enthusiasm for this election on both sides is off the charts.

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