GOP losing "get out the vote" battle

Posted on September 26, 2004 by Ampersand

Here’s some good news: According to a New York Times study, Democrats in the swing states of Ohio and Florida have been far more successful than Republicans in registering new voters.

A sweeping voter registration campaign in heavily Democratic areas has added tens of thousands of new voters to the rolls in the swing states of Ohio and Florida, a surge that has far exceeded the efforts of Republicans in both states, a review of registration data shows.

The analysis by The New York Times of county-by-county data shows that in Democratic areas of Ohio – primarily low-income and minority neighborhoods – new registrations since January have risen 250 percent over the same period in 2000. In comparison, new registrations have increased just 25 percent in Republican areas. A similar pattern is apparent in Florida: in the strongest Democratic areas, the pace of new registration is 60 percent higher than in 2000, while it has risen just 12 percent in the heaviest Republican areas.

New voters are undercounted in “likely voter” polls – so it may be that Kerry is actually doing much better in the swing states than recent polls have indicated. (Via Shadow of the Hegemon).

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3 Responses to GOP losing "get out the vote" battle

  1. michael cosentino says:
    September 30, 2004 at 3:14 pm

    Karl Rove was cited in Time mag about not caring who the Dems registered. He was going to make up for new registrations by turning upthe heat in the pulpit and getting all the 4 million Evangelicals he didn’t get in 2000 election.

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