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GOP Drops in Voting Rolls in Many States
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... Voting experts say the registration numbers may signal the beginning of a shift that could affect local, state and national politics over several election cycles. ...
G.O.P. Drops in Voting Rolls in Many States
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... the Democratic piece of the registration pie grew more than three percentage points, while the Republican share declined. In only three states Kentucky, Louisiana and Oklahoma did Republican registration rise while Democratic registration fell, but the Republican increase was less than a percentage point in Kentucky and Oklahoma. Louisiana was the only state to register a gain of more than one percentage point for Republicans as Democratic numbers declined. Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/05/us/politics/05flip.ht...
The Letter People Don't Want Behind Their Names Anymore
Fired Up! Missouri —
Not something that is actually possible here, given Missouri's lack of partisan registration for voters, but it seems that across the nation people are deciding that they aren't interested in being Republicans any longer. 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. ... And though comparable data are not available for the 21 states where
voters do not register by party, there is evidence that an increasing
number of voters in those states are also ...
Election Central Morning Roundup
TPM Election Central —
... The New York Times reports that Republican voter registrations have declined all across the country, while Democratic and independent registrations increased. The Times says that "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." ...
Why Is The Race So Close?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... be there as long as the British once were. McCain's previous position was to hang in while Iraq continued to burn. His new position is to hang in and somehow turn a strategic blunder into a strategic success (even if no sane person, knowing what we know now, would have begun this thing in the first place). This is a much, much better place for McCain to be than he was just five months ago. Still not great; but no longer awful.
The second factor, I'd argue, is, paradoxically, Democratic strength. The shift away from the GOP is pronounced everywhere ...
Musings Over Morning Coffee
Daily Kos —
So here we go, about to head into Opening Day at the Olympics. What that really means is that for all the Sturm und Drang about polls moving up and down (they haven't really done so outside of the margin of error), we haven't changed the landscape much since Obama clinched, and won't until the conventions. Here's the Gallup from yesterday, for example. Note that the numbers generally travel within a tight range. Wavering ex-Republicans look like they are coming home on some days, wavering Democrats the next. None of that looks firm, although the enthusiasm gap remains in Obama's favor. That's consistent with the campaign of 2008, which is not the 'base' Rove ...
Around the Web: 2008
The Corner on National Review Online —
... Oil Reserve The Wall Street Journal [image] Shifts on Tapping National Oil Reserves Los Angeles Times [image] In New Stand, Proposes Use of Oil Reserve The New York Times [image] Birthday Bash Draws $5m The Boston Globe [image] Guessing VP Is No Game for Staff Chicago Tribune [image] [image] State of the Race Obama Outlines Energy Plan; McCain Advocates Drilling USA Today [image] Race-Card Flap Reopens Clinton Camp Wounds Politico [image] G.O.P. Drops in Voting Rolls in Many States The New York Times [image] Alaskans for Obama: A ...
The GOP’s Evangelic Line Starts to Crumble as Obama Offers His Hand
Firedoglake —
... This from an evangelical scholar in Georgia. Given the importance of the evangelical phone tree calls for GOP GOTV operations the last few years, that is a HUGE problem for McCain. Because he is already way behind the curve in ground game and organization as it is.
And given that the GOP is already losing among younger voters and, frankly, voter rolls overall have dropped for the GOP for the fourth straight year, barely holding their own among evangelicals who used to be a sure thing, and falling apart at the seams with folks ...
Doocy skews skewed viewership to "prove" FOX is fairandbalanced
News Hounds —
... and network news audiences differ is in their political orientation. Democrats are more likely than Republicans to regularly tune into nightly network news shows, while similar numbers of Republicans and Democrats regularly watch cable TV news. However, not all cable audiences are alike, and there have been changes in the partisan profile of the various cable news networks just in past two years.
News Audiences More Democratic (Note: see related article at NYTimes)
The general public has become more Democratic since 2006, and this is ...
FOX Friends: 2000-like recounts in multiple states?
News Hounds —
... Fund said that there are many new voters registered this year, which is good, but "so many of these new registrations are suspect or might fall through the cracks" that many won't be on the books and will be handed provisional ballots. In the event of close contests and recounts, those provisional ballots (those new voters, who are overwhelmingly Democratic, he did not add) will be the target of lawsuits to determine whether or not they are counted. ...
