(PA) State GOP aims to reverse voter registration losses

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Source: TRIBUNE-REVIEW

Faced with a daunting deficit of 1 million registered voters, the Pennsylvania Republican Party is planning a major registration drive to win back some of the people who switched to the Democratic Party in advance of the April 22 primary.

Republican activists will begin the drive on the day of the primary, standing outside polling stations in select counties, asking voters if they'd switched sides and, if they have, if they'd please switch back, said state party chairman Robert Gleason.

"In addition, after Election Day we're going to have an intensive effort to contact all these (former Republicans) by phone," Gleason said. "We're going to go after them and try to get them back."

The Democratic Party has grown by more than 300,000 voters since last fall's election, due in large part to registration drives by Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Interest in the Pennsylvania primary -- it's the first time in decades the state's vote has mattered so much in picking a party's nominee -- also has driven the registration surge.

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