Drop in Ohio voter registration, especially in Dem strongholds, mirrors nationwide trend

Fox News ^ | September 27, 2012 | Doug McKelway

[smoothsailing]

September 27, 2012

Drop in Ohio voter registration, especially in Dem strongholds, mirrors nationwide trend

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....

[mvpel]

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 is why the Democrats are so desperate to insure that college students can vote in New Hampshire even if they don't actually live here.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Thanks for the info. I lived in Vermont and Mass off and on for a total of four years. The last time I was up there was 1989.