GOP leads early votes cast in battleground Colorado

The GOP has the lead among early voters in battleground state Colorado, the Denver Post reported Monday.

According to numbers released Monday morning, registered Republicans cast 652,380 ballots so far, about 7,000 more than those cast by Democrats. When the votes are rendered into percentages, a little over 35 percent were submitted by Republicans, 34.8 percent by Democrats, and 28.5 percent were unaffiliated. Democrats initially held the lead Thursday, but GOP voters dominated by Friday, the report said.