newschannel5's john companiesic joins us live right now -- john companiesic -- john kosich joins us now. >> reporter: you can vote in person every day including saturday and sunday. the monday through friday hours have been expanded by two hours to accommodate the voters. around 1800 people voted early. around 89,000 have requested absentee ballots. while that's only 10% of the county's voters total, when you look at where the requests are coming from you see the bigger picture. the 31,000 requested by republicans equals 36% of all republicans in the county. the 5,000 of democrats equals 31% of their total. >> there's a lot of ex same here that we see on both sides of the aisle but we do see an uptick in republican requests compared to 2012 as opposed to a decrease in absentee ballot requests from the democratic requests compared to 20 12. >> remember, 70% of cuyahoga county voters are nonpartisan meaning they can vote in republican or democratic primaries unless they join one of those parties which they can do on election day. on your side, john kosich, newschannel5. >> fur still on th

john companiesic joins us live. michigan. >> reporter: monmouth michigan poll. it was a four-day poll. in the first two days kasich trailed trump by 22%, but in the last two days that number was cut to just 6%. kasich this morning in monroe, michigan, which is really just a half-hour north of toledo. it was the first of three stops for kasich who will take his campaign back into ohio tomorrow. kasich was critical not of his republican rivals but hillary clinton. he said if she is the nominee, she will try to take credit for what the republicans in congress did for the economy in the early 90s. >> hillary clinton in the fall will be bragging about to clinton economy. what you know the clinton economy -- you know why it happened? because republicans got in, cut taxes, balanced budgets, and forced bill clinton to go along. you have to understand something about bill clinton. if a riot is coming at him, he will get infront of it and call it a parade, just sown. >> reporter: regardless of what happens tomorrow, it is all about ohio a week from tomorrow. case lick be