Monday, May 05, 2008

Voters, by the numbers

Voters, by the numbers

North Carolina data-net, published by the Program on Public Life at UNC Chapel HIll, has eye-opening new numbers about voter registration on its Web site. A sampling:

Since January 2008, more than 186,800 voters have registered in North Carolina. Of those:
105,549 have been Registered Democrats.
14,354 have been Registered Republicans.
66,898 have registered without affiliation.
64,868 have been African American.
In the last 40 years, the highest percentage turnout (25%) and the highest number Presidential Primary voters (1,101,211) was in 1984. That year, 960,857 (42%) of Registered Democrats voted in the primary election for President and 140,354 (17%) of Registered Republicans voted in the primary election for Governor. (Reagan ran unopposed in the Presidential primary.)
Meanwhile, Under the Dome on the N&O's Web site (third item) reports that more than 8 percent of N.C. voters have already cast their ballots. And it notes that 85 percent of unaffiliated voters who voted early are voting in the Democratic primary -- that can't be good for Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, a moderate Republican most of the time who could use some of those unaffiliated voters.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Obama's dirty laundry in making it out of the cellar. Did he learn this from Rev. Wright, taking down a black female stateswoman?

The day after New Year's 1996, operatives for Barack Obama filed into a barren hearing room of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.

There they began the tedious process of challenging hundreds of signatures on the nominating petitions of state Sen. Alice Palmer, the longtime progressive activist from the city's South Side. And they kept challenging petitions until every one of Obama's four Democratic primary rivals was forced off the ballot...

...Obama quickly mastered the bare-knuckle arts of Chicago electoral politics. His overwhelming legal onslaught signaled his impatience to gain office, even if that meant elbowing aside a black elder stateswoman like Palmer.

Anonymous said...

GO OBAMA
only 280 Delegates to Victory

GET OUT with the other 12,000,000 new dem voters and vote

GO OBAMA

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