Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis

[greenman3610]

Source: New York Times - gift link

The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters long before they even go to the polls.

Of the 30 states that track voter registration by political party, Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between the 2020 and 2024 elections — and often by a lot.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/democratic-party-voter-registration-crisis.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fk8.2fEs.P93xc1hx4iET&smid=url-share

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losing voters across all groups, people of color, young people, women, and particularly men.
Fox and Friends have successfully branded Dems as the party of transgender bathrooms.
Dems ham handed responses have often exacerbated the problem.

[walkingman]

1. IMO, that is just an excuse for homophobia. If the Dems rejected support for

transgenders, would that increase registration in our party? I don't think so. In fact I think we would lose some of the LGBTQ vote.

I think it gets down to who and what you support....win some lose some.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. My response to this earlier today

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220573720#post2

I mean it. I'm not fallling for their schtick.

This is typical NY Times dirty trick. Never forget how they treated HRC and Biden. It's just a game to them.

[BaronChocula]

3. Not really news to me

Since the 60s and 70s when the Democratic Party began taking on the sole guardianship of civil rights for all, Democratic support has become less reliable and less stable. Republicans on the other hand dove into the appeal of further marginalizing the marginalized and their defenders.

It's so much easier imagining all brown foreigners as villains than it is to understand the roots of inflation.

[Oopsie Daisy]

4. If the folks screaming "both parties are the same both parties are the same" would stop with their lies *

* it would certainly make things a lot easier. It's a BS lie and people need to stop spreading it.

[RandiFan1290]

5. Yep! nt

[FakeNoose]

6. More independent voters vote D than ever before - and we all know it!

If there is a trend of people leaving the Democratic Party, it's because of states that are trying to gerrymander every county and district. The party registration roles are what tells the Repukes where we Dems live. If they don't have that info - because the Dems have unregistered - then their little scheme doesn't work.

[Oopsie Daisy]

8. And there it is... right on time. Shitting on the Democratic party is quite the sport.

>> Until that happens, the Dem party is dead to me.

Oh, how charming! 🙄

[Skittles]

9. it is easier to inspire people via hatred than with hope

takes a special communicator to rise above repuke sludge

[thought crime]

11. It really comes down to that.

And unfortunately, hatred needs targets.

[Skittles]

12. LBJ nailed it

give people someone to look down on and they will empty their pockets for you

[SupportSanity]

10. "Dems ham handed responses have often exacerbated the problem." That's it. Let's portray ourselves as weak. Sigh........

[Deminpenn]

13. In my area, many people were registered as Dems, but rarely voted that way

Now they''ve just aligned their registration with how they vote.

After the 2024 election, I looked at the registration by PA county and the most interesting stat was the number of voters who registered as independent. We have closed primaries, so if you want a primary vote, you have to be registered with a party.

We have to acknowledge the voters Trump pulled out, too, many of whom were first time or lapsed voters. IOWs, the "unlikely" voters. Time will tell if these voters continue to vote or not without Trump on the ballot. My guess is that they will not.

[SunSeeker]

14. What "Dems ham handed responses" are you talking about, greenman3610?

And how have they "exacerbated the problem"?