Pasco County results portend good things for Romney in Florida (& beyond) tonight?

Pasco used to be a bellwether, never more so than in the disputed 2000 election, when Al Gore won the county by less than a thousand votes over George W. Bush.

But 2004 it wasn't as close, and as we mentioned in '08, when Barack Obama was winning true bellwether counties like Hillsborough and even Pinellas, he lost Pasco by three points, even though he won Florida by the same margin.

But an eight-point swing? Well, this shows that Romney is looking pretty good in Florida. Let's face it, except for a few polls in the last couple of days, the trend has been Romney by maybe five points (The Tampa Bay Times/ Bay News 9 survey had him up by six points over the weekend).

And let's clarify that this is just people voting under party identification - not listing how they are actually voting.

But could this portend what the situation is in other key bellwethers around the country? We won't know until the polls close in places like Virginia, Iowa and Wisconsin. And we're only learning this now because of the ability of Corley to post numbers from today up on the site immediately. But it's something to watch out for.