On May 5, 9:48=A0am, bum <siv...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 5, 9:41=A0am, California Poppy <GoldenStatePo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > California Democrats crow over voter roll uptick
> > By Dan Walters - dwalt...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Published 12:00 am PDT Monday, May 5, 2008
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> > California's Democratic leaders, who have seen their share of the
> > electorate decline by about 15 percentage points over the last three
> > decades, are crowing about an uptick in registration.
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> > Secretary of State Debra Bowen re****ted that Democratic registration
> > jumped from 42.7 percent in December to 43.5 percent last month, while
> > Republican registration declined by virtually the same amount.
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> > "The Democratic voter registration train in California continues to
> > accelerate while the Republican train has jumped off the tracks,"
> > state Democratic Chairman Art Torres proclaimed, citing a 469,700-
> > voter gain from 2004 and a 109,870-voter loss by Republicans.
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> > Torres and other Democratic leaders are also elated that two counties
> > that had acquired Republican pluralities during the decades of
> > Democratic decline, Ventura and Stanislaus, now have moved back into
> > the Democratic column by narrow margins.
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> > What neither they nor anyone else knows, however, is whether it's a
> > permanent trend or merely a tem****ary lull in the long-term erosion of
> > Democratic Party strength, which has been much more dramatic than the
> > losses suffered by Republicans. Both parties have been losing ground
> > to the rising ranks of independents aligned with no party, who now
> > constitute just under 20 percent of voters.
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> > President Bush's very low popularity in the state has contributed to
> > the Democratic gains, no doubt, along with the intense voter interest
> > generated by the duel between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack
> > Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination and what Torres
> > describes as an effective party registration drive.
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> > Republican registration efforts, meanwhile, have been hindered by the
> > state party's precarious finances, as well as Bush's unpopularity. But
> > a few days after the registration re****t was released, Insurance
> > Commissioner Steve Poizner =96 a likely GOP candidate for governor in
> > 2010 =96 announced that he was contributing from his vast personal
> > fortune to a new voter registration drive.
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> > The positive Democratic registration news has ramifications for this
> > year's elections and, were it to continue, could impact the campaigns
> > for governor, U.S. senator and other statewide offices two years
> > hence.
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> > ****tions of newly Democratic Stanislaus County, for instance, are in
> > the 12th Senate District, where Republican in***bent Jeff Denham faces
> > a Democratic-sponsored recall election on June 3. And Republican
> > registration has slipped by three percentage points, down to under 35
> > percent, since Denham won re-election in 2006.
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> > Ventura County's new Democratic plurality, to cite another example,
> > typifies the party's gains in the 19th Senate District, which is
> > likely to be the state's most heavily contested legislative
> > battleground in November. The district, centered in Ventura but
> > including ****tions of Los Angeles and Santa Barbara counties, was
> > designated as a Republican bastion in the bipartisan gerrymander of
> > legislative seats seven years ago, but its once-large GOP voter margin
> > has been shrinking.
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> > Four years ago, as Republican Sen. Tom McClintock was seeking re-
> > election in the 19th District, he had a seven-percentage-point GOP
> > margin. Today it's down to scarcely two points as McClintock is forced
> > out of the Legislature by term limits and seeks a congressional seat
> > 400 miles to the north in the Sacramento suburbs. Two former Assembly
> > members, Republican Tony Strickland and Democrat Hannah-Beth Jackson,
> > are preparing to duel in the 19th District, and the outcome could
> > change the balance of power in the Senate, especially if the Denham
> > recall succeeds.
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> > Finally, whatever hopes Republican Sen. John McCain may harbor for
> > winning California's presidential electoral votes will be dimmed if
> > the gap between Republicans and Democrats continues to widen.
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> Understand that many re-registered to vote for Obama which explained
> that Obama closed the gap from 20% to about 10% in the primary. If the
> demo infighting continues bitterly for much longer, don't count on
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I agree with you, bum. I posted this because I feel the GOP needs to
wake up and know what is happening.
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