Posted on 11/23/2010 1:16:12 PM PST by Moseley
WILMINGTON, Del., Nov. 22, 2010 /Christian Newswire/ -- Recent voter registration statistics have now largely answered a lively debate within Delaware's Republican Party about the reasons for Republican losses on November 2, 2010.
Mike Castle would likely have lost the 2010 election if chosen as the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate. Meanwhile, Republican candidates for all offices in Delaware faced a fundamentally more hostile electorate in 2010 than ever existed in past years.
Democrats added 29,650 voters -- a staggering 11% increase -- from 2008 to 2010 in a highly-aggressive voter registration drive by the Democrat Party of Delaware.
Known as "the First State" for ratifying the US Constitution first, Delaware is nevertheless a lightly-populated, mostly agricultural oasis. Only 305,716 votes were cast for US Senate in Delaware. Therefore, the 29,650 increase in Democrat voter registration represents almost 10% of all votes cast for US Senate. It may be assumed that newly-registered voters are likely to vote.
2010 election results for all Delaware offices may be largely explained by the failures of the Delaware and national Republican Party to engage in party-building and voter registration, compared to an aggressive and effective party-building operation by Democrats.
Total registered Democrat voters in July 2008 were only 264,167 voters for the entire State of Delaware. Democrats managed to increase total Democrat registered voters by 29,650 -- an astonishing 11% increase -- to 293,817 Democrat voters registered for the 2010 elections.
Increases in Democrat voter registrations did NOT come (on net) from Republicans switching parties. The Democrat Party aggressively registered new, first-time voters.
During the same period from 2008 to 2010, Republican registered voters increased by 4,153, and "Others" increased by 10,516. Therefore, the Democrats 29,650 voter increase does not represent (on net) Republicans switching to Democrats, but represents entirely new voters who had not previously voted in Delaware elections.
By comparison, Democrats showed a similar successful drive in prior years. Democrats increased registration from 2007 to 2008 by 14,451, while Republican increased registration from 2007 to 2008 by only 1,389, and "Others" increased by 1,286 voters.
Meanwhile, weaknesses in the Republican Party's core operations at the national level were just exposed by a controversial resignation letter by the Political Director of the Republican National Committee. Gentry Collins described an inadequate effort of party-building and fund-raising at the Republican National Committee.
References:
www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45193.html
Voter registration totals from 2010 are published online at: elections.delaware.gov/services/candidate/regtotals.shtml
For 2008 at: elections.delaware.gov/services/candidate/more_regtotals.shtml
“Mike Castle would likely have lost the 2010 election if chosen as the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate. Meanwhile, Republican candidates for all offices in Delaware faced a fundamentally more hostile electorate in 2010 than ever existed in past years.” Don’t tell Tokyo Rove this.
This is what scares me about the stinking rats i.e. the level of effort they often come up with even when they have absolutely jack **** nothing in the way of ideas and their candidates are total garbage.
oh...so in other words, typical Acorn/Rat fraud. I'll bet every migrant tomatoe picker on the eastern Shore got $10 to vote for the rat.
It may be assumed that newly-registered voters are likely to vote.
Lots of assuming you doing there Moseley..........
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Good Lord. You mean to tell me that between July 2008 and sometime in 2010, 29,000 folks registered as a Democrat? Really? I would love the statistics from July to November 2008. I bet the super majority are from that period. This is by far the most ridiculous story I have read on FR. Seriously are we this insane to not understand that 2008 we lost big time and that people registered to vote for President Obama. Is this author not computing something? It certainly can’t be me......
The “author” was part of the O’Donnell team and is grasping for excuses.
Turnout is what caried the day. The Dem Voters turned out... either because the Dems GOTV effort was super or the Voters came out to vote agains O’Donnell.
They now will have to deal with the hand that they have dealt. Good luck.
Is this author not computing something?
You got that correct. He is doing a lot of assuming. The voters in DE have spoken to COD in 06, 08 and 10 about her as their Senator. She ran in the General election in those years for Senator and was rejected. Some people don’t get the message. Now she may can be a force behind the scenes to help someone more acceptable to the voters of DE but she isn’t the one.
If there is one thing the Democrat party excels at, it is uniting behind their candidates. No matter who wins in any given Democrat primary, (most of the time, there are exceptions of course) the rest of the party cheerfully lines up behind whoever the candidate is and backs him or her to the hilt. The GOP establishment of course is choc-full of pathetic sore losers who insist on putting themselves ahead of the people, even if it means taking out other GOP candidates in the process.
This has to end, the Democrat party has ways of keeping sore losers in line, and it is high time the GOP adopted those methods. But the GOP establishment that controls the national party organizations must go.
That’s what I am thinking.
Wonder if Karl “The Buffet” Rove knows about this?
Would he even understand it? /S
Now a sniper out to gun down any conservatives or Tea Party candidates.
Wonder who he is working for now ... Romney, .... McCain ..... or ...... is it..... BROTHER "JEB"?????
Democrats strategy in ‘vote registration’ is not by ‘switching minds’ or ‘convincing’ people to be libs, it’s simply getting a “NAME” on a Registration Card, and then making sure that “NAME” gets “RECORDED” as a “VOTE”.
They are thieves and criminals of the first order.
All it would take would be for 100,000 Republicans to get short-term leases in Delaware. Apartments for part time residency. Hell, share the cost of an apartment rental.
Register to vote.
Vote conservative.
Maryland is rabidly liberal. A smaller population state can be turned easily.
Oh please. In 2006 and 2008 she was a sacrificial lamb. And in 2010, the national party ignored her...the only contest that counted remotely was 2010...the other two were not serious.
Black chicks really dig Obama. And the exit polls showed this.
Black chicks voted 95% for Coons. Black chicks were 14% of the electorate. That 14% is extremely high.
Christine won the white vote. Christine did substantially better with whites than McMahon in CT did.
But black turnout was huge in Delaware.
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