Check out these numbers on our local new voter registrations. Excellent!

[Lex]

This is NC data. Hope this trends this way across the country!

Voter registration for Durham County and Orange County for the two week period ending 9/17/2004 and the six-week period ending 9/17/2004 (net, new minus cancellations), calculated from:

http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/stats/vr_stats_main.asp

DURHAM COUNTY

2 WEEKS
DEM 1613
REP 291
UNA 533
TOTAL 2439


DEM 66.1%
REP 11.9%
UNA 21.9%


6 WEEKS
DEM 6030
REP 920
UNA 2311
TOTAL 9279

DEM 65.0%
REP 9.9%
UNA 24.9%


ORANGE COUNTY

2 WEEKS
DEM 651
REP 195
UNA 430
TOTAL 1282


DEM 50.8%
REP 15.2%
UNA 33.5%


6 WEEKS
DEM 1872
REP 592
UNA 1276
TOTAL 3764


DEM 49.7%
REP 15.7%
UNA 33.9%


Voter registration for Wake County for the six-week period ending 9/17/2004 (net, new minus cancellations), calculated from:

http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/stats/vr_stats_main.asp


WAKE COUNTY

6 WEEKS
DEM 3053
REP 1986
UNA 2057
TOTAL 7142


DEM 42.7%
REP 27.8%
UNA 28.8%

[Pirate Smile]

1. That is awesome!

[Lex]

3. This is the kind of momentum that the pollsters can't pick up on.

These kinds of numbers sort of fly under the radar and the polling doesn't reflect the groundswell out here on the ground for getting rid of Smirk.

[Indiana_Dem]

2. How can I find stats for my state in Indiana? n/t

[Lex]

4. Have you tried to google Indiana State Board of Elections

or something like that?

That might get you to the correct site, then look for a link to the New Voter Registration Stats (or something similar).

[Indiana_Dem]

5. Yeah, I'm trying right now but not getting anywhere quick.

Thanks anyway. Indiana probably wants to hide all that kind of information. I swear this state is so backward! Ugh!

[RevolutionStartsNow]

6. Checked this for California

They don't seem to have "new registered voter" stats, but I compared registration totals from Feb. 04 to Sept. 04. Of course lots of our voter reg effort happened before the special election last year and again before the primary. I'll check those totals another time.

In any case, here's what I found: Registration of Dems increased by 236,000 and of Repubs by 102,000. And almost 200,000 "Decline to State." Not sure where these people tend to fall.

I registered voters at a local County Fair today, we were swamped with people, including a lot of Hispanics who were registering to vote for the first time.

I encourage everyone to check their state election board websites to see the results, it's a great mood lifter...

Keep registering voters!