Huge Registration Numbers Out of North Carolina, Too
by Jonathan Singer, Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 10:55:04 AM EDT
We're seeing big voter registration figures coming out of Pennsylvania and Connecticut -- and now North Carolina:
Hot off the presses: New numbers from the North Carolina Board of Elections show that, since the first of the year, more than 165,000 new voters have registered to participate in advance of the state's May 6 primary.That puts the total of new registered voters in the state since January 2007 at almost 522,000. For comparison's sake, that's more than TWICE the amount of new voters registered during the same time period before the 2004 election.
Forty-five percent of the new voters since January are registered as Democrats, with about 30% unaffiliated and 25% Republican. About a third are under 24 years old.
Gary Bartlett, the director of the Board of Elections, says that the number of new registrants is "through the roof" and "absolutely, totally unprecedented."
Doing some back of the napkin math based on the rough numbers above, it looks like the Democrats have netted an increase of about 105,000 new voters (that is 105,000 more new voters than the Republicans). Looking through the most recent registration figures out of North Carolina, it looks like the Democrats' new voters make up more than one-sixth of their overall advantage over the GOP in the State. Once again, it sure looks like there are some serious upsides to this protracted primary election cycle...
Tags: Democratic primaries, North Carolina, North Carolina Primary (all tags)
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