Posted on 09/16/2020 7:30:06 PM PDT by 11th_VA
The latest voter registration figures from Secretary of State Mac Warner’s Office show that Raleigh and Greenbrier Counties now have Republican majorities. It is still close; Republicans outnumber Democrats by just 321 voters in Raleigh County, while in Greenbrier County there are just 78 more registered Republicans than Democrats.
However, the numbers are reflective of the ongoing shift of voter registration in West Virginia from Democrat to Republican. Just four years ago, Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 7,800 voters in Raleigh County and 4,500 voters in Greenbrier County.
Raleigh and Greenbrier are the 22nd and 23rd West Virginia counties where the GOP is the majority party. In 2016, only 14 counties were Republican.
Statewide, there are still more registered Democrats than Republicans, but not by much. As of the end of last month, 470,515 voters were registered as Democrats and 435,925 as Republican (284,255 were independent or no party) for a difference of just 34,590 voters.
At the beginning of the year, Democrats had a 76,000 voter advantage and four years ago, the Democratic Party had 185,000 more voters.
Today, the two parties are closer than ever in registration. Democrats make up 38 percent of registered voters, 35 percent are Republican, and 23 percent are independent or no party.
Raleigh and Greenbrier are unlikely to be the last two counties to go red. Marshall, Mason, Mercer, Nicholas and Pocahontas counties are all trending in that direction.
West Virginia was once as blue as any state in the country. In 1994, two out of every three voters in the state were Democrats, but West Virginia has been trending red for two decades now, starting in 2000 when Republican George W. Bush carried the state over Democrat Al Gore.
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Maybe in two years we can get rid of Senator Giriechin.
I bet John Brown’s body I lies a mouldering in his grave.
Nevertheless, HoJo is still up 20 points
But, the democrats have the silent voters on their list. Those dead voters can undo any majority republican votes, when needed.
Lol !!! He was hung in Charleston WV, but I believe is buried in NY. Lol !!!
Almost Heaven.
Good place for him.
Time to work on getting rid of Manchin the Betrayer.
No kidding. This is like democrats bragging about California adding to their voter rolls. Not impressive.
I bet John Brown’s body I lies a mouldering in his grave.
Do you even know who John Brown was? In the South the term “I was John Browned!” meant I’ll be damned. The song John Brown’s Body has the phrase “...his soul will go marching on...” which is the direct inspirational to the more commonly known hymn “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” where the phrase “His truth is marching on”. John Brown was an abolitionist and fought in Kansas Bleeding incident prior to his taking of Harper’s Ferry leading to the Civil War.
It did not help matters when Hillary campaigned there, telling them she was going to close all of the coal mines.
Can we stop using the Orwellian media newspeak colors at last ? Red is Communist/Nazi totalitarian. The true color of the party of the Demonrat Stalinazis.
Do you even know who John Brown was?
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As a matter of fact, I do. I am a direct descendent. He was my grandfather’s grandfather. Not unique, John brown had 21 children.
GG/grandfather?
23 counties? Still less than half? Why is voter reg so slow to change?
“Orwellian media newspeak colors.....Red is Communist”
Unfortunately I think the “dye” is cast on that front. 10 or so people in the world care and all are right here on FR. :/
We still have Dave Leip’s atlas.
When CNN and MSNBC are either gone, or have a few genuine alternative viewpoints. They do nothing else but parrot the NY Times and WaPo narratives, but that allows them to define the language. When they lose control of that, then “red” is red and blue is blue.
That’s Charles Town, near Harpers Ferry, not Charleston the WV state capital!
I’d much rather have D registrations voting R than R registrations voting D.
Nope. Might as well complain about the word “Federalist” that originally meant “Nationalist” and “Anti-Federalist” as meaning “Federalist.”
It’s set on a million maps. Ain’t gonna happen.
Embrace it. We ARE the party of real revolution anyway.
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