Registered Dems outpace Republicans, 'like a wave'

[ejbr]

Source: Poughkeepsie Journal

One year after Dutchess County became "blue" for the first time in history, the number of registered Democrats continues to outpace Republicans - albeit more slowly.

Registered Democrats now hold a 3,500-person lead over Republicans, up from about 1,000 at this time last year, according to a Poughkeepsie Journal computer analysis of voter registration data. Two years ago at this time, Republicans outnumbered Democrats by about 3,700.

Party officials on both sides credit the residual impact of President Barack Obama's campaign, as well as the continued - yet slowing - demographic shifts in the county.

Read more: http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20091101/NEWS01/911010392/Registered-Dems-outpace-Republicans---like-a-wave-

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Dutchess County is a one hour drive above New York City. My parents live there. What is most pleasing is knowing the apparent futility of those jerks who stole my mother's Obama for president signs. How sweet it is.

[Warpy]

1. Tell your mother to buzz up some habanero peppers

with some water in a blender and then paint the signs with them next year. Just remember to use gloves to remove them if they last the season.

No, it doesn't prevent the signs being stolen, but it will give the thief a little surprise when he pees or scratches an eye or other sensitive area.

The sign needs to be repainted with the mixture after a rainstorm, but it's a great way to teach a sign thief a lesson he'll never forget.

[Occulus]

3. Another idea: slow drying black paint.

Paint the border with a slow-drying black paint. It'll get all over their hands and onto everything they touch, and in the dark they won't even know it when it happens.

[ginnyinWI]

6. or Vaseline. n/t

[Warpy]

8. Thieves will wipe oil or Vaseline off

While capsaicin isn't as soluble in water as in oil, it will still be there in enough quantity to give a thief an unexpected thrill.

[onehandle]

9. Landmines. nt

[Endangered Specie]

18. how about some satan's blood

800,000 scoville units... Put a drop on my tongue as part of a dare once, mouth was on fire for a half hour.

[indimuse]

2. yay! knr. n/t

[DavidDvorkin]

4. I was hoping this referred to a national wave

But this is very good news, nonetheless.

[BrklynLiberal]

5. uh-oh. Democratic majority mean the repukes will try some dirty tricks....

[K8-EEE]

7. LOL, it must be because of ACORN!

Oh the mighty powerful ACORN and their devil works! hahahaha!

[KansDem]

10. Yet the media will continue to focus on the same tired, old dinosaurs of the GOP

...who will still be yammering about the same old, tired GOP talking points (St. Reagan, "trickle-down economics," PNAC-talking points, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich (really!), Dick and Lynn Cheney, other Bushistas, "fiscal responsibility," "morality," "support the troops," "family values," etc.etc.etc), and media "reporters" will still be going to the same old, tired coffee shops in red states and "interviewing" the same, tired old "real 'Murikans" to get the same, tired old perspectives.

:boring:

[sakabatou]

11. Well when the last party runs the nation into the ground

There are bound to be switches and sign-ups.

[Sailing]

12. That may not turn out so great after all

The Democratic party is already right of center and continuing to move further to the right.

The republicans desperately wanted to create and control a one-party system of government. My big fear now is that the conservatives will succeed in this goal. To create a one-party right-wing government, that party being called the Democratic party as the Republican party moves into extremist obscurity.

[Iowa]

13. Yep, and this is why I switched my registration from Democrat to Independent...

Today's Democrat is yesterday's Republican, and I refuse to support Republicans, even if they call themselves Democrats.

[No Elephants]

24. The folks who say the Pub Party is dead should read Shakespeare. ("What's in a name?")

We are coming close to two Parties, the Republicrats and the Tea Baggers, neither of which represents me.

As I said on the NY Congressional District thread, maybe those of us who DON'T love us some right of center turds should consider whether this country wouldn't be better represented by three or four Parties than by two kinds of Republicans.

[John Kerry VonErich]

14. I don't trust it.

Now in this of blue dogs and fakes.

[mdmc]

15. Across the river the same thing is going on

Ulster is blue. Orange and Sullivan are slowly get there too..

[Kurovski]

16. Generally speaking, young people don't like the Republican Party,

and old people die at a higher rate than the young.

Look for more desperation and lies, Repub election theft, DINOS etc. in our future

[DireStrike]

17. I wonder if that's where my grandma lives

I bet she's PISSED if her county is blue. Lollerskates.

[Odin2005]

19. Wow, leave it to the purists to make this out to be a bad thing.

:crazy:

If the fall of the GOP causes the split of the Democratic Party into a liberal party and a new conservative party so be it, but we are not at that point. The Teabagger nuts are still a dangerous threat right now.

[No Elephants]

25. Sure they are, but they are less insidious than Republicrats. At least

people who are low info Progressive at heart know where Teabaggers stand and know not to vote for them. The same is not so of DINOS.

Sorry, but the Republicans seem to have eaten all but a few Democrats for supper, then changed their voter registration to Democrat so that they can have the rest for breakfast.

More accurately, the Democrats are spooked and think their survival lies in out-Republican-ing the Republicans.

Sorry, I am loyal to the principles of the Democratic Party, not to the the Party name or to the color blue, just as I am more particular about pledging allegiance to the principles of the Constitution than I am to pledging allegiance to a piece of cloth. If the Democratic Party wants to walk away from its principles, though, oh well. I think I may just continue to stand for the principles.

Anyone who wants to lull themselves to sleep with Republican/DLC memes about things like purists and the left of the left is certainly free to do so, though. To each his own.

[tblue]

30. +1

[bobshin]

20. Orange County, just down the river on other side is moving in that direction also...

I think it has less to do with the Obama campaign than the influx of post-2001 NYC folk moving up this way as a place for a second home who have now made it their primary residence. Add to the loss of jobs in NYC- and the remaining real estate bubble- and you have NYC'er's moving up this way for more value for that money with an easy commutable connection to NYC.

I sure hope it's not entirely the Obama campaign because that's over and done. Momentum only goes so far. The real test will be election day. Are these new Dems just Presidential voters? (I know in Newburgh, having a Dem majority on a local level has proven to be a bad thing as they are the ones who have corrupted the city just as much, if not more, than the Repubs. People who sign on as Dems for the Presidential elections will likely vote locally the same way across the board without checking out the candidate. We have two Dems who lost the primary who were also endorsed by the Republicans so they are now on the Republican line. The Dems who won the primaries-one is a pro at campaigning and hasn't lost an election in 30 years but has cost us almost all of our progress- and is a former Republican; the other was a principal in a HUD scam 10 years ago and also a former Republican.)

[MisterK]

21. great news

Congrats and sorry about the repukes stealin yer sign.

[barbtries]

22. neither side wants to mention

how badly the republicans screwed up the country during the past 8 years?
Party officials on both sides credit the residual impact of President Barack Obama's campaign, as well as the continued - yet slowing - demographic shifts in the county.

what's that about?

[SpiralHawk]

23. "Smirk." - xCommander AWOL & Republicon Cronies

[No Elephants]

26. A lot of Republicans don't like Bushie, either, though.

[No Elephants]

27. Conservatives will readily admit that Bush screwed up the country. They called him a liberal

Joe Scarborough claims that Conservatives will win when they stay true to Conservative principles and not when they abandon them.

IMO, Democrats who stay true to Democratic principles will beat a Conservative or a Republican, but Republicans will beat Democrats who sacrifice their principles to play to the right.

Too bad I may never have a chance to test my theory, though, because so many Democrats have gone too far right, even on the tradiional wedge issues of human rights and choice. that few prncipled Democrats are left.

I used to vote for the lesser of two evils, but is a centrist Republican really less of an evil than a centrist Democrat? Or do they both betray the principles that made me a lifelong Democrat (so far)?

[SpiralHawk]

28. No need to apologize for the Republicons who twice elected AWOL Bush

and Dickie 'Five Military Deferments' Cheney.

Americans already know that Republicons weasel and FAIL to accept responsibility for any of their multitude of FAILINGS.

[defendandprotect]

29. k i c k