Posted on 08/05/2008 7:55:16 AM PDT by TADSLOS
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.
Jim Webb, arms crossed, at a rally in 2006, won his Senate race in Virginia with strong support from inner suburbs.
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.)
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Registered Democrats substantially outnumber registered Republicans here in Westmoreland County, yet Lynn Swann solidly beat Ed Rendell in 2006. One reason is government jobs, which includes everything from school teachers to the water company. If you are a registered Republican, you may as well not even apply. Another reason is that voters registered as Republican seem to have their registration lost or cancelled for superficial reasons.
In this case the NYT used Virginia as an exemplar of party registration changes by Republicans.
That's the sheerest nonsense ~ again, there is no registration by party in Virginia. It is an unobtainable number. It doesn't exist.
The NYT is not regurgitating anything ~ using Virginia in a discussion of political party registration is ignorant and uninformed!
LOL. That's pretty funny coming from a noobie McCain troll.
I hate to break this ego buster to you, but the world and the nation doesn’t revolve around Virginia.
I guess that is why odumbo is starting to tank in the polls, must be those new democrats they are polling
The RNC wanted McCain. This is the result of that.
True, and it fits their behavior pattern of spinelessness. Why bother with the GOP when they are so much like the opposition?
You read the article, right?
Oh, you didn't read the article ~ just blowing off steam.
Or are you upset that I slammed your boy Jim Webb for being a favorite of the residual KKK voters in Virginia? Yeah, that's it ~ recalling that the Washington Post campaigned against George Allen's mother for being Jewish, Webb swept into office with ease snapping up the KKK antisemitic voters like crazy.
BTW, the "near in" suburbs of Arlington and Alexandria have always been Leftwingtard bastions of stupidity. There's been no change in their voting patterns since the Great Flood.
Union and government workers, including teachers, usually know that they better be registered as donks, no matter how they vote, if they want peace in the workplace.
This time, with a liberal Republican running against a green, resume-less, naive progressive, many of those donk registrations will vote R.
Yep. You're right. It's the end of the world.
Quick! Blow your brains out and show people you're no fool!
For years I’ve been thinking about ditching the Republican Party. This may be the year that I finally pull the trigger and register as a “decline to state”. The Pubbies are no longer the conservative party, they’ve been proving that since 2000.
VOTE FOR MCCAIN.
Not gonna happen.
It’s called “Operation Chaos.” The only poll that matters is the one in November.
Once again, Virginia is not the center of the Universe. Go throw a tantrum in the corner.
Speaking as a registered Democrat (who registered Dem so I could vote for Hillary in the Dem primary), the apparent shift away from Republican registration may have more to do with Rush and Operation Chaos, than anything else
neither is germany troll
republicans will not vote for obama, obama will lose because he is rejected by DEMOCRAT voter, becuase the Democrats are racist
Then I consider you a Liberal....since you will be aiding in voting one in.
And my question to the Times is when was this count taken, during the primaries when many Republican’s crossed over to vote for Hillary?
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