Democrats take edge in adding to rolls (Minnesota)

[Love Bug]

Here's a story in today's Mpls StarTribune about the increase of voter registrations in predominately Dem areas of Minnesota:

Fueled by the passions of the presidential race, voter-registration campaigns have added tens of thousands of Minnesotans to the election rolls from predominantly Democratic cities, nearly twice the new registrations gathered in recent months from heavily Republican areas of the state.

The efforts of both parties and their allies to find new voters in their strongholds could prove crucial in Minnesota and other states where the election is considered too close to call.

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Since June, there have been more than 28,000 new registrations in Minnesota cities that voted decisively for Al Gore in the last presidential election and more than 16,000 registrations in cities that voted decisively for George W. Bush, a Star Tribune analysis of state records found. The newspaper defined a decisive margin as 10 percentage points or more.

In all, more than 72,000 new registrations (not counting people who moved or changed their names) were filed between June 1 and Oct. 5, before the final push for preregistration efforts. About 2.5 million Minnesotans voted in the 2000 election, meaning those new registrants, if all of them voted, could constitute 2 percent to 3 percent of the electorate.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5037408.html

[Guaranteed]

1. Oh, but Carlos Watson from CNN says that the Republicans

are just SO ENTHUSIASTIC this year!!

And Carlos, well, he's just a really smart guy!

[Tamyrlin79]

2. Enthusiasm gets them nowhere...

Especially when WE are so unenthused about their candidate. The Republicans will come to vote enthusiastically. Democrats will come to vote in a flood. Republicans won't be so enthused come Nov. 3, when they've lost.