G.O.P. Drops in Voting Rolls in Many States (NYT)

G.O.P. Drops in Voting Rolls in Many States
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER

Well before Senators Barack Obama and John McCain rose to the top of their parties, a partisan shift was under way at the local and state level. For more than three years starting in 2005, there has been a reduction in the number of voters who register with the Republican Party and a rise among voters who affiliate with Democrats and, almost as often, with no party at all.

While the implications of the changing landscape for Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain are far from clear, voting experts say the registration numbers may signal the beginning of a move away from Republicans that could affect local, state and national politics over several election cycles. Already, there has been a sharp reversal for Republicans in many statehouses and governors’ mansions.

In several states, including the traditional battlegrounds of Nevada and Iowa, Democrats have surprised their own party officials with significant gains in registration. In both of those states, there are now more registered Democrats than Republicans, a flip from 2004. No states have switched to the Republicans over the same period, according to data from 26 of the 29 states in which voters register by party. (Three of the states did not have complete data.)

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/05/us/politics/05flip.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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People like Michael Moore were using them as "proof" that a Kerry victory was inevitable. The moral of the story: never forget the advantage that the Republicans have in controlling the media and the machinery of voting. Fight like Obama's 20 points down. We can't afford to let the bastards steal another election.

My county was still very red in 2004 but is now blue.

Not to say we shouldn't fight like our lives depended on it to get Obama elected. (Because maybe they do.) But I don't understand how the Dems are outnumbering the Republicans all over the place, even in traditionally red areas, yet McCain and Obama are running "neck to neck." It doesn't make sense to me. People don't register as Democrats to vote for the Republican. :shrug:

Just because people register to vote doesn't mean they'll be allowed to vote. I genuinely believe that these polls are designed to provide cover for another stolen election, and that we should be concentrating less on persuading people to vote for Obama and more on ensuring that everyone's constitutional right to vote is upheld, particularly minorities, who are usually the first to be scrubbed from the voter rolls.

the pundits will have to find another way to explain it than increased Repub registration. The same thing happened in 04, i.e., Dem registration was much higher than Repub and the Dems outnumbered Repubs in many places where they never had before.

It made not one iota of difference. Bush supposedly won by 2.5% nationally in the vote as counted by the vote theft machines. Kerry won by about 3% in the exit polls.

If Obama wins by a landslide, I'm not sure the vendors will chance screwing the tilt-o-meter high enough to steal the election. Not to say they couldn't do it. They could tilt the election 20 points if they wanted to as they did in OH in the 05 referendum.

same party his/her first three times, (s)he will vote that way for life. All of these young people registering to vote for Obama are the last line of defense between us and 1930's Germany

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