Republicans adding few new voters in Nevada

[ccharles000]

Carson City — This was a summer of discontent for Democrats as they lost control of the health care debate, the economy continued to founder and their approval ratings slipped, both in Nevada and nationally.

But Democrats’ troubles haven’t brought a surge of new voters for Nevada’s GOP.

Republicans have added just 1,549 voters since February, when the secretary of state’s office cleaned up voter registration rolls.

Democrats, meanwhile, added 4,860 and nonpartisan registration grew by 3,783. Even the hard-right Independent American Party registered more Nevada voters in that span than Republicans.

“Coming in fourth? Ouch,” said Erik Herzik, a professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno, and a registered Republican.

Herzik said the Nevada Republican Party’s problems are twofold.

First, it lacks any real party organization. The state GOP lost its chairwoman when Sue Lowden stepped down to run against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The state party, which shares an office with the Clark County Republican Party, doesn’t have an executive director.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/oct/12/republicans-adding-few-voters/

[LiberalFighter]

1. Aren't there enough rocks for them to look under?

[depakid]

2. The difference will be how many turn out

If the Dems stay home or cross over, Reid is done.

[davidpdx]

3. It is definately encouraging

Now if we could only bury Harry Reid in the place where that nuclear waste dump is suppose to be, our problems might be solved.

[fugop]

4. Wow

I really hope the trends of last year are continuing, bleating from the media notwithstanding.

I remember last year getting all freaked out at the polls (yea, I'm pathetic that way), in spite of seeing news of Dem registrations swelling and GOP registrations falling. And then when Obama won in places like Virginia, N.C., Florida and Ohio, which hadn't been ours for a while now, it felt like yes, the registrations held true and proved the polls were using models that failed to see the new voters.

I read this news from Nevada and hope that even with all the yapping from the media about how we're a center-right country, how people are turning on Obama, such news shows that the majority of Americans (not the fringe that gets all the news coverage) are continuing to see through the crazy that has come to be the majority of the Republican party.

So even if that's NOT the case, I'm going to take this news out of Nevada and wrap myself in it like a warm blankie. Ahhh!

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

5. Reid is done, period. The Dems cannot just rely on the Vegas region.

They have to reach further out, and if they can't, Reid and the Dems are finished.