4 Million Dems Registered In Pennsylvania
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Hillary, McCain, Pennsylvania, Polls, RepublicansEncouraging news for Hillary? She’s up by at least 12 points in the latest poll I’ve seen, so she has to be happy with these registration numbers. Still, there’s plenty of time between now and the April 22.
The figures, which showed modest declines in the ranks of Republicans and independents, reflected intense interest in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination and recruitment efforts by both candidates, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois.Since last year’s election, which featured races for judicial and municipal offices, the number of Democrats increased by more than 161,000, or more than 4 percent, to at least 4,044,952. No political party in the state had previously reached the 4 million threshold.
And more bad news for the GOP…
Registration in the GOP declined by about 1 percent, to 3,215,478 statewide.
That’s a difference of more than 800,000. McCain might be able to pull in crossover voters, but nearly 800,000? That’s a tall order.
Of course the number is going to be less than that because not everybody who registers to votes actually does so, but I can’t imagine Republicans being more energized than the Democrats this Fall. Well, actually I can…if the Dems continue to destroy themselves with this drawn out contest and push their numbers down and McCain’s up.
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March 25th, 2008 at 11:31 am
I keep reading this “long, drawn out” race is bad for the Dems…why is that? Maybe, just maybe, the fact there is still a race is keeping people interested.
Certainly, the various attacks on each other might play into the GOP’s hands come the fall, but are any of us so navie as to believe that the GOP was not going to bring these issues up?
And while you can claim that Hilary or Bill saying that only she and McCain love this country, or only she and McCain have experience, how is it really going to play when McCain starts playing sound bites from someone Obama can paint as a sore looser (and will those comments from Hilary or Bill really convince anyone that wasn’t going to vote for McCain already?)
Truth is, the long “CLOSE” campaign has kept people interested in the Dems. If Hilary or Obama had clinched the nomination, no one would be talking about them and the upcoming primaries…no one would be clamoring for another debate (ooh, television and free advertising).
Stop getting taken in by the right-wing wishful thinking that the long campaign is dividing the party. It’s creating more interest, not less.
About all you can worry about is that Hillary or Obama will shoot herself or himself in the foot.