With the news that former President Bill Clinton tried to push Rep. Kendrick Meek, D-Fla., out of his Senate race, the possibility of a Charlie Crist resurrection now emerges. The theory is that Democrats will give up on Meek and back Crist, who is running as an independent candidate, over Republican Marco Rubio.

But then there’s the issue of early voting. As of tonight, GMU professor Mike McDonald’s tally shows that 1.6 million votes have already been cast in Florida. (Registered Republicans still have an overwhelming advantage in the numbers, by the way, and are easily outperforming previous years.) That’s roughly one-third the number of votes cast in 2006, the last midterm. So the question is whether Crist can make up enough ground within a dwindling voter pool in the next few days, as Meek’s candidacy becomes even more irrelevant than it has been all along.