Fewer voters register as dems

http://www.9and10news.com/Category/Story/?id=292485&cID=3

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic voter registrations have declined since the last presidential election in states such as Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Iowa and Nevada. All those states are considered important to President Barack Obama's re-election. Democrats fared well among an estimated 15 million new voters in 2008, and party registrations soared.


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People may be disgusted with both parties.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/05/30/national/w003526D15.DTL

In 2008, Barack Obama tapped into a record of nearly 15 million voters who cast ballots for the first time, a surge in registration that may be difficult to replicate next year.

Recent voter registration data show that Democrats have lost ground in key states that Obama carried in 2008, an early warning siren for the president's re-election campaign. While Republican numbers have also dipped in some states, the drop in the Democrats' ranks highlights the importance of the Obama campaign's volunteer base and the challenge they could have of registering new voters.

"When you look back at 2008 there has to be a recognition that it was a historic election, a historic candidate, a historic moment in time and potentially some type of a ceiling — I'm not sure there is ever a hard ceiling — in terms of voter registration," said Democratic strategist Chris Lehane. He said the political map in 2012 will likely look more like it did going into the close contests of 2000 and 2004, which hinged on swing states like Florida and Ohio, respectively, than in 2008, when Obama won traditionally Republican states like Indiana and North Carolina.

Obama will have to re-ignite the passions of some Democrats who had high hopes going into his presidency and may be ambivalent about him now. Several states with Republican governors have tried to reduce the number of early voting days and required photo IDs, a move that Democrats say will disenfranchise poor and minority voters. Polls have shown some political independents drifting away from Obama since 2008, meaning Democrats need to register and turn out more Hispanic and black voters, college students and women.

Regardless 2008 was a spectacular year for new registrations.. I doubt we will be able to match that now no matter what.

but most have been with no declared party, so any decline in Democratic (or Republican, for that matter) registrations most likely means disgust with all of them.

FWIW, we have three registered Republicans running on our Democratic line for local officesthis year. Registration itself doesn't mean all that much.

Republican once.And I am the only one of 120 men that is on record ,for only voting Democrat since I was 19 yrs. old. Registration reflects nothing when it comes to voting ,it has more to do with Jobs ,which unfortunately is controlled or manipulated by money grubber's.

faster than their willingness to change paperwork.

...contact the municipal clerk in the area you want to work.

with a 29% approval rating in Florida, to Obama's now 52% approval rating, let's see how this will play out in Florida for the Presidential election.

when the Democrats are so much like the Republicans. Rarely if ever do they fight for the common person. They are owned by many of the same corporate handlers as the Regugs. When was the last time they stood up and actually fought against the right wing. Sure every now and then they accidentally throw us a bone after it is cleared through their handlers but that is rare. If the repugs rate a a score of 20 out of a hundred for me, the dems rate about a 25. Add in the bluedogs and we're screwed.
I'd like to see them all cast out, we'd lose a few (very few) good ones but might have a chance to regain some semblance of representation on Congress.
But the bottom line is that as a populace, we've become too complacent and/or ignorant to vote in our own self interests in this once great country. We are at the bottom of the Washington food chain, we are the bottom feeders but don't understand that.

Republican and Democratic candidates know they will get 80 to 90 percent of the votes of the people registered to their party. For those people they only need to talk the talk.

But for non-affiliated people, they need to walk the walk.

I am a non-affiliated voter, so no candidate expects my vote.

I never vote for a Republican, I almost always vote for the Democrat, but in New York most Democrats also run on a third party line, so that is how I vote for them. If the Democratic candidates got the majority of their votes on the liberal party or working family line do you think it would cause them to rethink their positions?

I just don't believe the average American knows enough about the political system to make an informed vote anymore. Whether through stupidity, ignorance, or willful ignorance (combined with a compliant, manipulating media) we seem to vote for all the wrong reasons.
Democrats believe that when they vote for a Dem that politico will have their best intentions at heart. Similarly, the Repugs have the same issue and then get corporate representatives, just like the Dems.
I believe that the only chance we have as a country is to get the money out of the election process but I doubt that will ever happen in my lifetime.
I guess I am a cynic, I see no fix in sight and since I'm older I won't see the worst of it. I do see the beginning though and just worry about what our kids and grandkids will have to endure as a third world corporatocracy.

2008 saw a record number of Democratic party registrations, and they're still valid.

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Of course, voters don't trust them. Everyone hoped that Obama would buck the Wall Street, corporate masters.

When the tea-baggers appeared to be really grassroots and anti-big-business-as-usual, people became interested in them. When the tea-baggers proved to be but a corporate sham, people turned away from them.

What people have not yet figured out is that the very media from which we get all our information is completely corrupted by the influence of corporate big-wigs, Wall Street and their propagandists.

An honest, tell-it-like-it-is, no-nonsense reporter can only get a minimum wage job. You have to play the game to survive.

So, until we find really new ways to inform ourselves, we are stuck.

Party politics will not saved us. We have to save ourselves and then save our party and our society.

Turn off your TV and cancel your newspaper subscriptions. That is the only way we can change this.

Who will STAND and FIGHT for THIS American Majority?
Lofty Rhetoric, Broken Promises, and Whiny Excuses mean NOTHING.
"By their WORKS you will know them."