Forget the Polls: Here Are the Numbers That Matter

Fast forward to September 2024 and the Democrat voter registration edge has been sliced in half since the 2020 election — down to just 338,396 voters. Tellingly, 48,618 Democrats have switched their party affiliation to Republican; two and a half times more party switches than Republicans to Democrats.

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Although Democrat registrations gained steam after the party switched out Joe Biden for Kamala Harris Republican registrations climbed even faster. Putting a cherry atop the registration sundae for Republicans both Bucks County in the Philadelphia suburbs and Luzerne County in northeastern Pennsylvania flipped from blue to red. No county has flipped from red to blue.

Democrats have dominated Republicans in mail-in balloting since the advent of no excuse mail-in voting in 2020. Here too Democrats are underperforming. As of September 23rd there are 360,101 fewer Democrat applications for a mail-in ballot than at the same time in 2020. Republican mail-in ballot requests are down by 60,963 giving the GOP almost a 300,000 voter net advantage.

Ed Morrissey

Interesting analysis. I'd prefer to see GOP ballot requests increase, but at least the gap is closing overall. 

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