Not sure if this was posted already but … an incredible milestone was reached in this election: 200 million registered voters. And it’s not like total registrations have been ticking up slowly year by year for eons. This has happened relatively quickly, as noted in www.politico.com/...
The figure means more than 50 million new people have registered to vote in the past eight years. Only 146.3 million were registered as recently as 2008, when then-Sen. Barack Obama first won the White House — a remarkable 33 percent surge in the electorate during a single presidency.
This has direct political implications for this Presidential election today … and represents real peril for Republicans, especially in battleground states ...
The wave of new voters this year has dramatically favored the Democratic Party, according to TargetSmart, which analyzed the expected party preferences of the new registrants in 15 of the first- and second-tier presidential battlegrounds.
Overall, TargetSmart found that 42.6 percent of the new voters registered this year lean Democratic, and only 29 percent lean Republican (28.4 percent lean independent).
Worse for the GOP, registration trended more Democratic in every single battleground state, from a small margin in Georgia (4.3 percentage points) to massive leads in diversifying states like Colorado (29.3 points), Nevada (20.4 points) and North Carolina (9.2 points).
I think it’s fair to say that this represents early evidence of the incredible effectiveness of first Obama’s and now Hillary’s GOTV. We will see on Nov 8th how effective Part 2 of her GOTV efforts will be — getting those registered voters to the polls to vote. If I was a betting man I know where my chip would be placed ...