2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: NC FACTS--not pundit BS or pollster malarkey--Look at the numbers--FINAL UPDATE #10 [View all]mnhtnbb
(33,059 posts)Keeping up with the changes in voter registrations due to one stop registration and early vote in NC, here are
Voter Registration as of 10/29/2012 Democratic: 2,852,150 Republican: 2,041,921 Libertarian: 18,763 Unaffiliated: 1,698,901 Total: 6,611,735
http://www.ncsbe.gov/content.aspx?id=93
The difference between these numbers (which reflect Saturday and Sunday early register/vote) is
Democratic: +2571 Republican: +1432 Libertarian: +82 Unaffiliated: +1269 Total: +5354
Broken out as a % of new registrations: Democratic: 48.02% Republican: 26.75% Libertarian: 1.53% Unaffiliated: 23.7%
While this does represent some gains for Republicans--Dem registration has dropped from a better than 2 to 1 rate
to 1.8 to 1--it still shows Dems leading in the raw numbers contest.
And here are the raw totals for votes : 1,505,751 votes have been cast: of those 281,606 MORE Democratic votes have been cast, which shows the lead widening for total numbers of Democratic votes cast over Republican votes. The previous total was
250,503 more Democratic votes than Republican votes cast as of last Friday.
ftp://www.app.sboe.state.nc.us/enrs/absentee11xx06xx2012_Stats.pdf
So Democrats are still successfully going to the polls in greater numbers than Republicans!
GOTV!!! We're going to turn NC BLUE!