{"id":116,"date":"2008-10-05T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/05\/dems-winning-the-registration-fight\/"},"modified":"2008-10-05T08:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T12:07:00","slug":"dems-winning-the-registration-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/05\/dems-winning-the-registration-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems winning the registration fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the campaigns slouch into mid-October, one factor is emerging that could shake up the entire race:  voter registration.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone talks about the damaged Republican brand and possible GOP-voter apathy.  John McCain seems to have solidified his base nicely with the Sarah Palin veep pick. <\/p>\n<p>But still looming is the massive effort to recruit and register new Democrats.  This line jumped out at me from a Washington Post story this weekend:<\/p>\n<p>Recent polls showed Obama forging a clear lead in [Pennsylvania], and Obama advisers think they will benefit from the surge in Democratic registration there this year. There are now about 1.1 million more Democrats registered in the state than Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Even when you guess that most of those newcomers won&#8217;t actually vote &#8212; maybe the vast majority won&#8217;t actually vote &#8212; the impact is potentially huge.<\/p>\n<p>When you look at below-the-fold details like this one, you see how much grassroots rebuilding the Republican Party has ahead. <\/p>\n<p>The good news for the GOP is that the Democrats were in a similar spot just a few short years ago.  When the pendulum swings, it can swing fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the campaigns slouch into mid-October, one factor is emerging that could shake up the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}