anyone have info on news that GOP has registered more voters than Dems?

[Hamlette]

Just one more thing to worry about. Have we not been doing that this year? Are they really that far ahead of us?

[Upthevibe]

1. Hamlette...

Would you please post a link or give a source...Thank you....

[stopdiggin]

2. you need to be much more specific

(new registrations vs "registered voter" -- by city, state, district, county?)
but, in overall terms, I believe that the statement is just flat out wrong.

[RockRaven]

3. Saw a post about that earlier.... Repukes had increased new voter registration in swing states

If you look for such a post title you can probably find it... Sorry, I can't remember the primary source nor OP name.

[leftofthestorm]

4. It was on MSNBC earlier...........

it talked about how repubs were out-registering democrats in Florida.

[DLCWIdem]

5. Yes there was a post earlier with a link

Also Morning Joe said it on MSNBC. I looked at the link and the article was saying it was since March. I will see if I can find the link for you. Ok. The post is from Bigmanpigman in editorials and it is called Biden isn't out of the woods yet. The link is to a NYT article. You have to read to the end of the article to find the 4 proofs they are citing. Good luck

[MacKasey]

7. How do we know these are brand new voters

Maybe these are people who have moved

People who have got married

Republicans who will vote for Biden

People just messing around register as republicans who are independent but going to vote for Biden, like the kids who requested for tickets for Tulsa rally.

Just throwing some things out for thought,

This crap about registering more republicans than democrats has been out for awhile and started me thinking

[TreasonousBastard]

8. Here ya go. I started a thread earlier and it's true, but may not be such a big problem...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214292071

[sweetloukillbot]

9. A few thoughts

1) Democrats still hold an advantage in registration.
2) its speculated that The shift is from Dixiecrats and Reagan Democrats finally just switching to Republican. It the the case it won't affect The totals too much since those former Democrats don't vote for Democrats Anyhow. I wonder it its a deceptive narrative to keep Republicans engaged in the face of a major loss.

[Hamlette]

11. makes sense

helps keep me calm.

[sweetloukillbot]

13. One More thought

How many were switching to Democrats to vote in the primary, them switching back?

[DLCWIdem]

16. Someone else posted in a similar thread

That the GOP paid canvasseres per GOP registration.

[onetexan]

21. Agree. Even in tx Beto's registratn drive registered 2.9M voters

His original goal was 1M & they tripled that. This is why the record turnout in tx. We are sick &tired of the chaos & we are mad as hell.

[Hamlette]

10. It was Nicole Wallace on Deadline WH today.

it was in the introduction so I don't see a clip posted on the site. There are several articles out there though. They say republicans have narrowed the gap by registering more new voters.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/voter-registration-republicans-swing-states-narrow-gap/

Sorry not to have posted more info in first post, I tend to think everyone watches what I watch! Dumb.

[Awsi Dooger]

12. Preference shift will take care of small net registration loss

But yes, we need to change method and timing in swing states instead of relying on late cycle of election years only. We got stuck this year because we assumed normalcy and weren't granted normalcy due to coronavirus.

[NJCher]

14. If true

Keep in mind that he lost a significant number of voters due to death over the llast 4 years. This was coverEd extensively so you should turn it up. Older white voters. Aged out. They have to make up for that loss.

[LeftInTX]

15. The GOP is physically more active than the Democrats due to Covid

They are going door to door more etc.
We lost a good chunk of our registration base due to college and high school closures etc. This was reported locally months ago. We have groups that perform huge registration drives at high schools and universities. It did not happen this year.

[Wanderlust988]

17. It's due to Covid. We couldn't do our normal registration drives

The media is way overstating this. They're making it seem like it's due to some big GOP wave that's coming and it's not. It has to do with not doing drives due to the pandemic. As long as our people GOTV, we'll be fine.

[BGBD]

18. Fool's Gold.

This is, in large part, Dixiecrats formally registering as republican.

So it subtracts from Dem numbers and adds to R numbers, but it's not a change in voting habits because these people have voted R for years.

It also means that Democrats have added a lot more new Ds than the net registration changes suggest since they lost a lot of their old numbers to previously mentioned dixiecrats.

It's not something that we need to really be worried about. Polls are a far better predictor than registration numbers, especially in the South and Appalachia where a lot of old Democrats started voting for Rs 20 years ago.

[reggaehead]

19. Pretty sure that was specific

To the State of Florida. But the GOP has been hemorrhaging voters there.

[Cosmocat]

22. Its the case in PA

Rs have a net advantage in new registrations of about 150,000 over the last year or so.

[Thekaspervote]

20. It's in FL not nation wide. Although they have registered more, we still hold an edge of 130,000+

[Dorian Gray]

23. Is there a source for this news?

or is it a feeling?

[DLCWIdem]

24. Again the source is on another thread

The source is on a discussion thread in the editorial forum. The thread is titled Biden isn't out of the woods yet by BigmanPigman. It sources a NYT times article which sources the Cook political report. If you read down to the end of the Times article it list 4 swing states which have more new registrations from GOP party. However, these registrations were counted back in March and June.