Posted on July 7, 2010 by Tim Albrecht in News Clips, On the Blogs, Press Room
Politically Speaking: GOP cuts into Iowa Dem voter registration lead
Periodically in this blog, I’ll update the latest voter registration statistics from the Iowa Secretary of State website. Today, there’s big news in those totals, with the unmistakable news peg coming from the mouth of Secretary of State Mike Mauro. In a news conference this morning, Mauro shared that Republicans have pared away a good chunk of the voter registration advantage enjoyed by the Iowa Democratic Party, which has sat at about a 100,000 person plus for Dems since Obama was elected in fall 2008.
Pushed in large part by a competitive three-man gubernatorial Republican Party primary held June 8, from June 1 to July 1 the GOP picked up 37,271 in voter registration, while Democrats dropped 10,045. The current totals for active registrations sits at 661,115 for Democrats, 615,011 for Republicans and 683,817 registered as No Party.
That registration change for the GOP is a prime pleasing subject here at lunch hour amongRepublican Party leaders on Twitter. And it has got to be concerning for Democrats (particularly Iowa Gov. Chet Culver in his re-election bid)
