Posted on 09/27/2012 6:49:56 PM PDT by smoothsailing
September 27, 2012
Doug mcKelway
"Don't boo, vote," President Obama often says in his stump speech whenever crowds boo a Romney plan.
The off-hand call to vote may be by design. It comes amid a precipitous decline in Democratic voter registration in key swing states -- nowhere more apparent than in Ohio.
Voter registration in the Buckeye State is down by 490,000 people from 4 years ago. Of that reduction,. 44 percent is in Cleveland and surrounding Cuyahoga County, where Democrats outnumber Republicans more than two to one.
"I think what we're seeing is a lot of spin and hype on the part of the Obama campaign to try to make it appear that they're going to cruise to victory in Ohio," Cuyahoga County Republican Chairman Rob Frost said. "It's not just Cuyahoga County. Nearly 350,000 of those voters are the decrease in the rolls in the three largest counties, Cuyahoga, Hamilton and Franklin."
Frost points out that those three counties all contain urban centers, where the largest Democrat vote traditionally has been.
Ohio is not alone. An August study by the left-leaning think tank Third Way showed that the Democratic voter registration decline in eight key swing states outnumbered the Republican decline by a 10-to-one ratio. In Florida, Democratic registration is down 4.9 percent, in Iowa down 9.5 percent. And in New Hampshire, it's down down 19.7 percent....
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This is what is skewing to polls, I would not be surprised if the actual voter turn out will be 30D/32R/37I. What is really being under reported in the amount of independents. And if you left the democratic party to be indy do you really think you are still voting for Obama?
By the way why are we being bombarded with Obama ads in Michigan? I thought it was safely in Obama hands?
Voter watch groups and James O’Keefe (he’s the guy who nailed ACORN) have put a dent in the enthusiam for voter fraud registration scams.
The far left and college students were super jacked up on BDS and willing to serve time in the last presidential election.
I am glad a lot are changing to Independent, though.
Yep, we had a SOS who was so in the tank for Obama that I wouldn’t be surprised if they cheated. Yes, I said it - cheated. (Mirroring my best Mark Levin). She certified the vote count - according to her own bias, of course. Having said that- McCain was a terrible candidate.
More great news! :)
Well one thing is certain, the purging of deceased voters is a plus for Romney, they would have never voted Republican in a million years.
I very much doubt this scenario...
Ohio voter registration deadline is October 9 2012...
That's a darn good point, and one I need to remember. That intensity is absent this time.
So true.
I had read about this new Dem registration drop in another article about swing states but it didn’t have Ohio stats so this really is great news.
Some more good news in a Fox News article dated September 23rd: “Nearly half of the young voters who in 2008 registered and cast their first presidential ballot may have not updated their voter registration, according to a new survey, a situation that could most impact President Obama considering that voting bloc helped him to victory four years ago.”
This are young voters across the country. You know who they would have voted for in 2008. A further erosion (upto 50%!!) of an Obama voting bloc...
Someone needs to tweet this story to Laura Ingraham. She has been so negative the last few weeks
So weird this is coming from the same Fox News whose pundits for weeks have been saying Obama is pulling ahead
Poll ping
Can you say Acorn?
No, no, no....Obamugabe is a lock on Ohio...haven’t you heard?
Ohio’s deadline is 30 days prior to the election. That falls on Sunday, October 7th. Monday being Columbus Day, the deadline this election day is Tuesday, October 9th.
In Dallas in the 90’s, a scandal erupted among Democrats when a new politician outbid older politicians for the services of vote bundlers. These guys went around passing out ballots, collecting them and ensuring votes for the candidate that hired them for the downticket races. Was publicized by the Dallas Observer, a left wing rag.
The same issue arose in the Arkansas Delta just a month ago.
Most vote fraud occurs at this level, or in the precincts where the precinct workers will punch out hundreds of ballots for a straight ticket punch (most famously publicized in the Florida Presidential election of 2000).
Happens all the time in multiple locations, and is one reason that True The Vote will have an impact in this election.
That theory is popular, but demonstrably incorrect. If you look at the towns along the border of Mass during, say, the Benson/Lynch gubernatorial election, they were double-digit majorities for Republicans. People coming in from Mass are political refugees, not carpetbaggers.
Plus, by moving to NH and commuting to Mass, you don't decrease your taxes, you INCREASE them, because you're not only still paying MA income tax, but also the much higher NH property tax rates.
The real left-wing strongholds are in Concord, with the SEIU and other government-employee unions fighting for their goldbricking and featherbedding, and along the border of Vermont with hippie migrants.
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