About 84,800 Oregon voters change their registration to vote for Sanders

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Senator Bernie Sanders’ fight for the Democratic nomination will be aided by the addition of 100,900 new voters and 84,800 voters switching to Democrat, all in order to vote in the Oregon Primary on May 17.

According to the Associated Press more than 110,000 already registered voters chose to change their party status, the most ever in an Oregon election.

Of those switching, more than 84,800 are independents who switched to Democrat before the April 26 deadline, presumably to have a say in the Democratic primary, which is closed to all but party members.

Jim Moore, professor and director of the Tom McCall Center for Policy Innovation at Pacific University, said most of those will likely lean toward Oregon’s “Bernie-mania” electorate.

http://en.institutomanquehue.org/publications/news/voters-change-their-registration-vote-sanders.html#sthash.VuV0o5Or.dpuf

[Buzz Clik]

1. Too little, too late.

The meddling continues, but it will not amount to anything

[puffy socks]

2. And they are all going to vote for Sanders

and even if every single vote and every single delegate went to Sanders from this point on it won't make any difference.
He's lost the nomination.

Though we already know... math, common sense, nothing is going to dissuade the Sanders crew from marching onto the Convention

onward ho!

After the Convention I expect he will to switch to run as an Independent and whine about losing, claim there was dirty tricks to justify it.
meanwhile, back at the ranch... he and his supporters will continue ignoring his own illegal campaign contributions, DNC firewall breaching etc.

[apcalc]

3. How do you know they are

Switching to vote for Bernie?

[IamMab]

4. 26 days to June 7th. That's all I'm keeping in mind lately.

And then Bernie "Failure at Life" Sanders can go back to his shack on the mountainside and bother us no more.

[Treant]

5. Almost certainly not 100%

will go to Sanders, and it's not like it stops plenty of Oregon Dems from voting for Clinton.

We'd want to see a comparison of how many switched in 2008 to get any feel for how normal this is.

[BootinUp]

6. Agreed. nt

[yallerdawg]

7. Balance that against true Democrats knowing it's over...

and staying home - it's Hillary!

I don't see a big turnout for one-upping Bernie independents.

How do you motivate voters when it's already over?

[Treant]

13. Oregon's so easy, though

It's all vote by mail, so no leaving the house is necessary.

[texstad79]

8. Oregon demographics are favorable to Sanders

He should win by a high single digit margin. It won't be nearly enough for him to make up lost ground.

[caquillo]

9. I thought Hillary was leading in OR by double digits?

[Jitter65]

22. I think that was put out by a Bernie journalist supporter to energize Bernie voters and claim a huge

upset, though it will not be because Oregon is mostly white and Bernie country.

[caquillo]

23. It was from DHM research

Are they associated with Sanders?

[link:http://www.opb.org/news/series/election-2016/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-oregon-poll/|

[Princess Turandot]

10. The other links on the page all appear to be anti-Clinton conspiracy theories etc.

Three big reasons Sanders can still win!
Clinton gets a Big free pass from Stephen Colbert on substance!
NY's stunningly disorganized primary!

FWIW I'm not sure this web site belongs in the HRC group.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Did it for the numbers mentioned

I figured that was relevant enough.

[Princess Turandot]

12. Here's the Oregon Live original story:

Record 110,000 change voter registrations in time for Oregon primary

[BlueMTexpat]

14. Mischief-making ...

I am thoroughly sick and tired of Bernie, his campaign, and everything associated with it. Hillary is a better person than I and that's for sure!

Even if every single one of those new voters votes for Bernie, he will still not win OR with the kind of blowout he needs.

[DLCWIdem]

16. Calm down

That story came out about a month ago and those polls were recent. It remains to be seen whether those polls reflect the added registration. Benchmark politics , who have been pretty accurate, just came out with a real recent poll numbers has Clinton up about 2 points. If anything it doesn't look like he will win by 65% which he has to make to keep on track. By the way they have her up by 4 in Kentucky. Don't feed the trolls.

[BlueMTexpat]

18. I am calm enough about OR.

I am sick of Bernie. Literally.

But thanks for trying to talk me down.

[Walk away]

15. Ratfuckers.....nt

[grossproffit]

26. SNORT

[Cha]

17. Yeah, it's too late for BS but now we can have a more true pic of what Oregon will be like.

[fleabiscuit]

19. Oh, we can do better than that...

Record 110,000 change voter registrations in time for Oregon primary

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/05/record_110000_change_voter_reg.html

I don't recall any questions about who you plan to vote for when selecting a party. But maybe could speculate that Jill Stein will see a smaller percentage of votes.

[George II]

20. Anyone suspect that republicans and the Trump campaign are behind this?

[fleabiscuit]

21. Naw. Oregon actually tries to get everyone registered.

[TwilightZone]

24. Assuming that all new voters are going to vote for Sanders is rather presumptuous.

And most certainly false.

[BlueCaliDem]

25. I agree. eom