Colorado: Registered Democrats overtake Republicans

[Tender Branson]

March 2009 numbers:

DEM: 1.058.796 (33.09%) (+1.284)
REP: 1.057.512 (33.05%)
OTH: 1.083.480 (33.86%)

TOTAL: 3.199.788

February 2009 numbers:

DEM: 1.061.501 (33.06%) (-1.780)
REP: 1.063.281 (33.12%)
OTH: 1.086.135 (33.82%)

TOTAL: 3.210.917

January 2009 numbers:

DEM: 1.061.543 (32.99%) (-5.137)
REP: 1.066.680 (33.15%)
OTH: 1.089.580 (33.86%)

TOTAL: 3.217.803

December 2008 numbers:

DEM: 1.061.083 (32.95%) (-6.987)
REP: 1.068.070 (33.17%)
OTH: 1.091.065 (33.88%)

TOTAL: 3.220.218

Election Day 2008 numbers:

DEM: 1.056.077 (32.90%) (-9.073)
REP: 1.065.150 (33.18%)
OTH: 1.089.022 (33.92%)

TOTAL: 3.210.249

http://www.elections.colorado.gov/DDefault.aspx?tid=719

[Verily]

Why did so many registrations drop off in the past month?

[Rowan]

Republicans lead in "active" registrations, no?

[Tender Branson]

Republicans lead in "active" registrations, no?

That is true (how long will it last ?), but Republicans dropped from 37% in early 2004 to 33% now and Democrats went from 30% to 33%.

[Smash255]

Why did so many registrations drop off in the past month?

Cleaning up the voter rolls from people who moved perhaps.    Same thing here in Nassau County.

[Rob]

Colorado, Nevada, and Arizona were the major destinations for participants of California's "Great White Flight" (in which thousands of middle-class conservatives fled the state's ever-growing minorities and increasing leftward slant). Now that Colorado, Nevada, and (soon) Arizona seem to be "Californianized," hopefully we'll see a conservative exodus from those states to Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. Ideally, the Mormon Triangle would become a Republican ghetto of sorts, surrounded by an increasingly Democratic bloc.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Clearly this shows the Democratic Party is floundering and they should watch out in 2010.

[Antonio the Sixth]

March 2009 numbers:

DEM: 1.058.796 (33.09%) (+1.284)
REP: 1.057.512 (33.05%)
OTH: 1.083.480 (33.86%)

TOTAL: 3.199.788

February 2009 numbers:

DEM: 1.061.501 (33.06%) (-1.780)
REP: 1.063.281 (33.12%)
OTH: 1.086.135 (33.82%)

TOTAL: 3.210.917

January 2009 numbers:

DEM: 1.061.543 (32.99%) (-5.137)
REP: 1.066.680 (33.15%)
OTH: 1.089.580 (33.86%)

TOTAL: 3.217.803

December 2008 numbers:

DEM: 1.061.083 (32.95%) (-6.987)
REP: 1.068.070 (33.17%)
OTH: 1.091.065 (33.88%)

TOTAL: 3.220.218

Election Day 2008 numbers:

DEM: 1.056.077 (32.90%) (-9.073)
REP: 1.065.150 (33.18%)
OTH: 1.089.022 (33.92%)

TOTAL: 3.210.249

http://www.elections.colorado.gov/DDefault.aspx?tid=719

Great results : Colorado is getting more and more blue...

[defe07]

If CO voters voted the way they were registered, other would win.

[Alcon]

If CO voters voted the way they were registered, other would win.

Most of those are Independents, not actually third parties.  Dems now have the plurality, even over indies

[Rowan]

If CO voters voted the way they were registered, other would win.

Most of those are Independents, not actually third parties.  Dems now have the plurality, even over indies

Not if you go by active registrations.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     The COGOP failed that badly with a registration advantage? They fail in the truest sense of the word.

[pbrower2a]

Colorado, Nevada, and Arizona were the major destinations for participants of California's "Great White Flight" (in which thousands of middle-class conservatives fled the state's ever-growing minorities and increasing leftward slant). Now that Colorado, Nevada, and (soon) Arizona seem to be "Californianized," hopefully we'll see a conservative exodus from those states to Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. Ideally, the Mormon Triangle would become a Republican ghetto of sorts, surrounded by an increasingly Democratic bloc.

Note well that the "White (Conservative) Flight" didn't go to truly rural areas  but instead found itself recreating the suburban world that it tried to rediscover. The only problem with the attempt to recreate Orange County near Denver or Phoenix was that that attempt created the high-maintenance suburbs and urban blight (box stores, shopping malls, fast food places)  that created the jobs that college graduates wouldn't do but attracted the first-generation Hispanic immigrants who would do so. The conservative parents foundReligious Right churches springing up just for them.

Kids packed up with Mom, Dad, and the SUV and family pets,  and the kids eventually had to go to college on government-sponsored private loans for college just to avoid having careers in box stores as cashiers,  salesclerks, and fast food workers.  Heavily in debt on college loans and often fearing a mass layoff from a white-collar job with subsequent consignment to jobs that only pretend to offer a living, and running away from the repressive Religious Right at the first opportunity, the kids became Democrats.

The secret of staying conservative would have been instead to go to places in the Upper Plains that offer no recreational possibilities, where economic conditions preclude box stores and shopping malls -- and disperse. Whether former suburbanites can find Midwestern hick towns tolerable is a different question. Who wants to live where there is nothing to do but rely upon electronic entertainments? Poor people in big cities do exactly that.