Posted on 02/12/2020 12:00:36 PM PST by 11th_VA
... Since January 2017, when the president was sworn in, democratic registration has shrunk by 3,071 voters, Republican registration has shrunk by 15,554 voters, and 9,529 new voters have climbed on to the rolls with no party registration...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“Republican registration has shrunk by 15,554 voters”
5 times as many Republicans dropped from rolls as Democrats....seems unlikely.
Out of the more than 977,000 registered voters in the Granite State, about 413,500 are undeclared to either party, compared to the state’s 275,252 registered Democrats and 288,524 registered Republicans. Undeclared voters can choose either ballot in a primary and switch their party back to undeclared with their local election officials after they’ve voted.
“Most registrations take place on Election Day,” he said. “It will be in the tens of thousands. We won’t know until Election Day.”
The data we have on this group shows undeclared voters are certainly not a monolith, and they don’t vote as a bloc. Polling data collected from 1999 to 2014 by Smith and former UNH political science professor and pollster David Moore showed that about 40 percent of undeclared voters consistently voted Republican and 45 percent Democratic. That left just 15 percent who could truly be considered “independents,” voting for candidates of both parties.
I’m optimistic as well based on the turn out for President Trump despite the fact that the article is trying to demoralize us by saying that 5 times as many people left the Republicans as left the Democrats.
With you on this.
With the reality of significant economic expansion, popularity and consistent crowd sizes Trump is pulling, continued uptick in even heavily scued left wing polling data for Trump, and the RNC doubling (or more) their national campaign donations — such numbers seem almost perfectly backward.
If Team Trump now believes they may win there, this suggest probable internal polling showing strength they did not have in 2016.
If the above arguments are true, and based on ever increasing DNC voter fraud schemes nationally, such reported numbers may serve to increase the possibility of left-wing/DNC voter machinations in November.
It could be they are attempting to reshape perceptions, so future “discrepancy” no longer appears such a “discrepency”, reducing the chances of being scrutinized.
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GOP numbers in NH no bueno?
Or NH is just weird this way.
Maybe it has changed to “Live FREE or vote Socialist” State?
Some undeclared voters who would never vote Democratic in the general elections undoubtedly took Democratic party primary ballots. The same thing happens in reverse in years where the Republican primary has contested races.
???
Why in the world does anyone think this?
Trump DESTROYED all unopposed incumbents’ records there, beating Bill Clinton by 50,000, Reagan by 60,000 (equaling Reagan’s all time high percentage for any incumbent).
There is a reason unopposed incumbents do not get the same turnout: there is nothing at stake. But on the other side, votes matter. There is competition, with multiple campaigns driving out the vote. I think this was an excellent turnout that has the Ds quaking in their boots.
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