72,000 Local Voters Sign Up (Cincinnati, Ohio)

[VolcanoJen]

Do I even need to mention that nobody is polling new voters?

Late in the article, check out this affirmation: Local elections officials predict voter turnout in Southwest Ohio to be between 75 percent and 85 percent. Turnout was below 64 percent statewide in the 2000 election.

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/09/04/loc_loc1amvote.html

Excerpt:

AMELIA - Greater Cincinnatians are swarming into county offices at an extraordinary pace to register for the presidential election in their battleground home state.

"It's been busier than we have ever seen," said Bob Mosketti, director of the Butler County Board of Elections since 1990. "And this is early, so that makes it even more unusual."

By Friday, two full months before Election Day and a month before the registration deadline, Hamilton County alone had already registered 34,000 new voters. Butler has registered more than 16,000 new voters this year; Warren County more than 10,000, and Clermont has 7,500 new registered voters.

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Connie Bare, chairwoman of the Clermont County Republican Party, said volunteers are registering people at party offices in Batavia at a clip of 100 people a day.

"It just seems to me there's a lot of interest in this election on both sides," she said. "Lots of people are coming out to vote who aren't political but are concerned about this election."

[havocmom]

1. Wonder what % of newly registared Republicans lack a pulse

Old trick which is likely to be used a lot again.

[MidwestTransplant]

2. Hopefully they are ours!

[private_ryan]

3. how do those counties with larger reg numbers lean?

anyoen from Ohio?

[VolcanoJen]

4. Cincinnati leans Republican

Most of southwestern Ohio, with the occassional exception of Dayton, leans Republican.

Many Cincinnatians would say that Cincy is heavily Republican; Bush carried 54% of the Hamilton County vote in 2000 while Gore carried 42%. Nader carried 2.5%. Outside of Hamilton County and into the suburbs, however, the Republicans are far more plentiful.

In Dayton, Bush received less than 5,000 more votes than Gore in 2000.

[Prodemsouth]

6. I was in Cincinnati two weeks ago for a one week time span, I saw lots

of Kerry and Edwards lawn signs, (even in areas that were clearly middle to slight upper middle class near Blue Ash and Montgomery) and bumper stickers, lots. I have to drive all over town, as my job requires it. In Dayton I tended to see more visible support for Bush.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

10. oh yeah, Dayton (the suburbs for sure) are Bush Country...

...the Kerry support is pretty few and far between.

I was in Springfield, today, tho, and there was alot of Kerry/Edwards signs floating around....

I think Clark County is going to go for Kerry.

Montgomery,...just by what Ive been seeing I think Bush.

[Barkley]

13. I was in Cincinnati all summer and saw more Kerry signs

on lawns in Amberly Village (Section Road)and Walnut Hills (Wold Ave) and in the affluent/ middle class lawns of Pleasant Ridge.

According to the U.S. Census Ohio has lost over 170,000 job since 2000.

I grew up in Cincinnati but now live in L.A. I spend my summers there teaching summer economics at NKU.

I just don't remember Cincinnati being so conservative growing up there in the 60s and 70s.

Its not the same city.

Their conservativism is religious based; around issues of abortion and sex. You can start unnecessary wars; lie about the reasons for going to war, steal public money in the form of gov't contracts etc.

But the moments there's sex involved its a sin.

Cincinnati also passed a wickedly anti-gay law Title XII which protects discrimination based on sexual orientation (gay or straight).
Its the only city in America with such a law.

That's why Bush 'apologized' over the Abu Ghraib prison scandal -- because it was about sex.

[Eurobabe]

14. good to know, I am moving to Cincy next month

I will put those addresses on my list of like-minded communities.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

9. Yeah..this is GOP country, and NOT good news...

,,,,NPR did a report on how the evangelical/fundy churches are doing a big voter registration drive in Ohio..particularly in SW Ohio....The numbers from Clermont County probably reflect this as this is a very family friendly suburban/exurban area...very GOP and probably with alot of churchgoers.

Of the actualy citys in the area, Cincy, Dayton, and Springfield do trend more Democratic (esp Datyon and Springfield), but they are outweighed by the VERY republican suburban and exurban areas.....

This is easily the most Republican part of the USA that Ive ever lived in, and the most culturaly conservative...even worse than Kentucky.

[Prodemsouth]

11. Not what I saw - you need to live in North Fulton county, GA or South

Carolina if you really want to see Monkey Country

[VolcanoJen]

12. Waverly, I love ya, but you're incredibly negative about Ohio.

Why on earth would you assume the news of voter registration isn't good news? Why do you assume this is bad news for Democrats, or that somehow churches are registering more voters than our incredible efforts statewide?

I've registered just shy of 50 voters, personally, and many more through ACT and the Dem HQ.

I've lived here my entire life, and I know this state, its people, and its patterns well. I do not interpret the jump in voter registration as bad news for Democrats.

[wryter2000]

5. Whoa!

75 - 85%

Amazing. Maybe we've rediscovered democracy.

[LauraK]

7. I hope these scarey polls are bringing sleeping Dems.

It should help some.

[tblue37]

8. I call it the Jesse Ventura factor. (eom)

[K8-EEE]

15. I'm Volunteering To Register Voters At My Community College

I really think that the MORE people in this age group vote, the better!

[lebkuchen]

16. Good for you!

I'm doing the same.

[K8-EEE]

17. Call Out To ALL DU-ERS!

Volunteer to register voters; volunteer to take voters to the polls. It does a lot more good than pissin' & moanin'! :o)

Seriously there are 50000 of us here; just think if we all registered even 5 or 10 new voters!!