Couple of early turnout notes

The Florida Election Lab, Prof. Michael McDonald’s project, had recorded 85.6 million early votes as of an hour ago. This site includes non-public sources of information so the numbers are higher than the NBC early vote tracker a lot of people have been citing. The site is quoting a 54.0% to 43.8% women to men gender split, which is obviously great for Democrats. It also doesn’t include any updated numbers from either California or New York, which haven’t reported since Sunday, so between that and some other stragglers we could be looking at 87-88 million early votes (lots of mailed ballots coming into today are still early votes of course). High turnout is generally better for Democrats, but on the other hand the gender split suggests that the more of the vote that’s been cast early rather than on Election Day, the better.

Relatedly, what appears to be good news out of Philadelphia:

Here’s Saquon Barkley avoiding GOP voter suppression attempts: