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Drop in Ohio voter registration, especially in Dem strongholds, mirrors nationwide trend
By Doug McKelway
Published September 28, 2012
FoxNews.com
"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 four 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."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/27/drop-in-ohio-voter-registration-especially-in-dem-strongholds-mirrors/
OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)msongs
(67,381 posts)postulater
(5,075 posts)I registered once 22 years ago. Haven't since.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)It's the polls that suggest Obama is winning and cruising to a victory there. That's all independent of the Obama campaign. I'd much rather be ahead in the polls than rely on faulty logic surrounding voting rolls.
BumRushDaShow
(128,719 posts)demgrrrll
(3,590 posts)investments with companies who are responsible for tabulating the votes. Anyone who knows me knows I have been around here forever, I am not an alarmist or a wet blanket and usually a pretty sunny optimist. This article, however, worries me.
http://readersupportednews.org/... Sorry link is broken, I think this was in truth out. All that being said I still feel that if I know it the Obama team knows it, in fact, one of the commenters sent the article to the Obama team. I still would like to know more about this.