Record 17.3 million Californians registered to vote

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Source: Sacramento Bee

A record 17.3 million voters are registered in California, Secretary of State Debra Bowen reported today.

Bowen had predicted a record number, but today's announcement marked the official pre-election tally from her office.

A late surge of registrations - one million between Sept. 5 and the Oct. 20 deadline - pushed the number past the previous high of 16.6 million in February 2005. More than 1.7 million people registered since January, Bowen said.

The percentages of Democrats and independent voters have grown since the 2004 presidential election, while the percentage of Republicans in California has dropped to 31.4 percent. GOP registrants made up 34.7 percent of the voter rolls in 2004. Democrats moved to 44.4 percent from 43 percent in 2004. The percentage of those who decline to state a party preference increased to 19.9 percent from 17.7 percent.

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/1095/story/1361313.html

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1. The number of GOP registration declines almost matches the number of "Decline to State" increases.

Seems more Republicans in California are ashamed of the "brand name" and switched to "Decline to State".

:rofl:

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2. Can't blame them!

This idiot won't even use the word "republican" in his TV ads. I kept rewinding it to see if I'd missed anything! He's such a smug ass, hopefully he'll be retiring this year.