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)OK, we continue to have changes in the numbers of voter registrations--reflecting early one stop registration and voting--here they are: Voter Registration as of 10/31/2012 Democratic: 2,854,886 Republican: 2,043,739 Libertarian: 18,856 Unaffiliated: 1,699,984 Total: 6,617,465
http://www.ncsbe.gov/content.aspx?id=93
Here are the differences reflected between last report and today 10/31/2012
Democratic: + 2736 Republican: + 1818 Libertarian: +93 Unaffiliated: 1083 Total: 5730
Broken out as a % of new voters: Democratic 47.75% Republican 31.73% Libertarian 1.62% Unaffiliated 18.9%
While we are no longer seeing Dems outregister Repubs by a better than 2 to 1 ratio, they are still leading at 1.5 to 1 ratio.
In terms of actual voting numbers 1,876,309 votes have been cast. Of those, 914,697 were Dems; 592,712 were Repubs.
The margin of Dem votes has widened to 321,985 MORE votes than Repubs.
ftp://www.app.sboe.state.nc.us/enrs/absentee11xx06xx2012_Stats.pdf