Democrats continue beating GOP in voter registration
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July 16, 2009

Democrats continue beating GOP in voter registration

Since election day, Democrats have gained 110,951 new voters in Florida, compared 100,019 new independents and 70,946 new Republicans. Put another way, Democrats accounted for more than 39 percent of new voter registrations since October, and Republicans 25 percent.

The good news for the GOP is that they gained 8,281 new voters in June - their best number since October, and perhaps a sign their voter registration push is working. The bad news is Democrats in June gained 14,200 new voters in June, also their best month since October.

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The question is HOW MUCH OF THOSE "DEMOCRATIC VOTERS" are fake registration by A.C.O.R.N.

Do you hear dead people?

More money and more voters. Not much left.
Republican leadership right down to the grassroots is causing the party to implode. Workers won't sit for being told who their candidates will be and who'll be allowed to participate; now it's all coming home. Power may be absolute, but when there's nobody left to exercise it on, not so much fun.

When all else fails, blame acorn!

The repiggies are drowning in their own whites-only preferred echo chamber.

Of course, they could always blame the rise in Democrat registration on the Clintons, or Obama, or the socialists, or the nazis, or the communists, or the French, or the Europeans, or Al Qaeda, or the gays, or the Jews, or the feminists, etc. Did I leave anyone out?

The repiggies champion the grievances of chubby aging white guys from the South. That's their base; those are the only folks they value.

The repiggie Senators were rather telling about their own biases during the recent grilling of Judge Sotomayor this week.

Get used to it -- new 18 year olds lean Dem by more than 20 points.

That accounts for most of the registration gap.

With ACORN running the voter registrations, is this really a shock?

Well, considering that it was the Republicans that didn't even follow their own law about registering as third party voter groups, my guess would be that they have lots of fraud in their registrations. I can't wait to do the public requests to find out! And by the way, ACORN isn't doing any voter registration drives right now--the only "drives" that are occurring is the "driving" by the Republican whack jobs like yourself that are driving people out of your party.

The repiggies have been quite successful at signing up the poorly educated conspiracy bumpkins, who obsess on all the talk radio crap 24/7.

Some of them post regularly on this blog.

Looks like the Independent registration movement is gaining steam. Maybe the electorate is finally beginning to "smell the coffee?"

Both parties are bankrupt ethically and philosophically at least in this state. Republicans losing out because they are more ideologically bankrupt, while the Dems are merely an extension of the Republicans leaving the voters little choice.

Leaving the voters with either more of the same, or, more of the same. The ONLY difference being just swapping letters of PArty after the name on the ballot.

This fact is reflected in more folks opting for the capitol I or NPA on their registration because they are sick of the disaster that both parties operating as ONE have created.

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS ACORN.

i see ACORN is registering dead people

I see the GOP's dolchstoss wing is blaming the Dem registration advantage on some kind of ACORN conspiracy.

I just love watching the Muslim-Obama-Terrorist-9/11-Abortion-Jesus crew do their hillbilly overalls dance.

Huurrrrrrrr!

I see the GOP's dolchstoss wing is blaming the Dem registration advantage on some kind of ACORN conspiracy.

I just love watching the Muslim-Obama-Terrorist-9/11-Abortion-Jesus crew do their hillbilly overalls dance.

Huurrrrrrrr!

I see the GOP's dolchstoss wing is blaming the Dem registration advantage on some kind of ACORN conspiracy.

I just love watching the Muslim-Obama-Terrorist-9/11-Abortion-Jesus crew do their hillbilly overalls dance.

Huurrrrrrrr!

I see the GOP's dolchstoss wing is blaming the Dem registration advantage on some kind of ACORN conspiracy.

I just love watching the Muslim-Obama-Terrorist-9/11-Abortion-Jesus crew do their hillbilly overalls dance.

Huurrrrrrrr!

I see the GOP's dolchstoss wing is blaming the Dem registration advantage on some kind of ACORN conspiracy.

I just love watching the Muslim-Obama-Terrorist-9/11-Abortion-Jesus crew do their hillbilly overalls dance.

Huurrrrrrrr!

The ACORN craziness continues unabated on FoxNews.

You can certainly tell the FoxNews crazies here on this blog.

The inevitable march of history:

Since election day, Democrats have gained 110,951 new voters in Florida, compared 100,019 new independents and 70,946 new Republicans. Put another way, Democrats accounted for more than 39 percent of new voter registrations since October, and Republicans 25 percent.

These numbers are proof positive that Greer has destroyed the Florida GOP.

The only real crazy on this blog is you, Repiggie Troll.

WHY should I vote has got it right. Both major parties are so focused on increasing personal power at the expense of actually representing their constituents, that they have collectively turned off much of the electorate.

D Harvill misses the point in failing to recognize the near parity in Independent registration as Democratic. There are new Democrats but also new Independents some of which are former Dems.

If the Democrats offered a reasonable combination of Integrity and competency, a significant portion of that 100k New Indies would be added to the newly minted Democrats.

Until the Florida Democratic Party offers something other than falsely based self-congratulatory BS, they will remain overwhelmingly outnumbered one way or the other.

If the National Dems screw up Health Care and try cramming mandatory Corporate insurance down our throats fostering bipartisanship at the cost of authenticity, they will be ousted in droves.

Just keep Sen. Sessions, Cornyn, and Grahm on T.V. asking the same questions over and over, and registrations will take care of themselves.

Or put that great rightwing icon Gov. Sanford and his soulmate luvvvvvv on display...

Or that intellectual Gov. from Alaska, I mean former Gov., who led the national guard in the great war over the Bering Strait against the ruskies...

or that Sen. from Nevada who bought the chick off to shut her up...

or the the Sen. from Idaho who picks up guys in bathrooms...

or the Foley guy who emails teenage boys..

You righties should be happy you got the registrations you got. Who wants to join your wierdo cult party anyway?

I have asked several friends who partake in extremist views face to face what it was that Acorn did?
I was given OMG you don't know "look" but I have yet to ask anyone who could tell me a particular instance.
As for this being a Florida only problem with registration problems,that is just not true.
Its a national issue and numbers across the nation are even worse in some areas.
You will see,mark my words approval rating will settle near that of all voters approval of fox news and limbaugh.
I have been hearing far too often extremist pundits talking about limiting votes soon.
While we demand that other countries allow all citizens to vote we exclude far too many already.

When ever you hear discipline and republican in the same sentence you know something morally and ethically corrupt is about to happen!

The repiggies didn't do themselves any favors this week by their grilling of Judge Sotomayor.

The repiggies are the party of stupid, uncouth, poorly educated aging white guys.
No others need apply.

Wait until the election officials purge all the dead people from the democratic voters list. Then we'll have a better count.

The ship is sinkin and the rats are swiming away..Its interesting how high officials in the GOP are seekin Judgships ..Guess they better takeum before the jig is upp...How many seats did them dems have in the legislature vs voter registration..????Stange ,,Enjoy my GOP friends the train is leaving you aint on it

I hate to think the average Democrat voter is as stupid as Jason Straight and the Repiggie Troll, two inarticulate people who engage in pure vituperation and characterize their opponents with comic book simplicity. Frankly most comments on The Buzz are left by people who seem to have nothing else to do and not much gray matter to do it with anyway.

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Under questioning by members of the Senate Budget Committee, Douglas Elmendorf, director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, said bills crafted by House leaders and the Senate health committee do not propose "the sort of fundamental changes" necessary to rein in the skyrocketing cost of government health programs, particularly Medicare. On the contrary, Elmendorf said, the measures would pile on an expensive new program to cover the uninsured.

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Elmendorf's blunt language startled lawmakers racing to meet Obama's deadline for approving a bill by the August break.

The real crime is voter purging.
Prior to the 08 election the Republican party went on a voter purge rampage in some situations purging 10% of voters from rolls and most due to improper change of address and even an an omission of a middle initial! Voter registration fraud is seldom over single digits.
In other words,improper voter purging is done far more often then voter registration fraud possibly as high as 1000 to 1 ratio.
Why does the republican party want no paper trail voting machines and voter purges due to an error at the DMV ?
The Republicans DO NOT WANT ALL AMERICANS TO VOTE!
Remember,every time you hear about acorn the republicans are trying to soften up Americans to the idea of further limiting voter drives.
Improper purges number in the millions,how many known voter registration fraud cases are there??

http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/voter_purges

http://www.aclu.org/votingrights/gen/38597prs20090129.html

http://www.alternet.org/rights/62133/

To billyrock,
I said it last so you are stupider then me and and my daddy can beat up your daddy and and and you and are a stupid head. Your friend Mr limbaugh is a big fat pimple butt and and he is a stupid head too
See how it looks to the rest of us?
If I were you I wouldn't challenge anyone's intelligence.

Baaah!

Morning translation -

How will you Baaah rak O baaah maaa sheep, errr supporters, be following your beloved leader off the cliff today?

Baaah!

The Democrats are going to need a large majority to oust the GOP who maintain power with their rigged districts and election fraud. Keep up the good work and we'll take government away from the developers and return it to the people of Florida.

No big deal here. Obama, Pelosi and Reid are planning to grant ammnesty to upwards of 30 Million illegals which will surely all vote for the National Socialist American Workers’ Party (Democrats).

We will have a permanent underclass of non-english speaking, unskilled voters selecting our leaders for generations.

Doesn't that make you feel all warm and fuzzy?

8:39 You'd think the illegals would all vote for conservatives since they're the ones that arranged for them to "visit" our nation and join our workforce as slaves. What are you having second thoughts about that now that they demand humane treatment? You conservatives are pathetic!

This is something that your hero Reagan did while he was in office and McCain as well as Bush/Cheney pushed for this.
Bush said in front of millions countless times that we needed these illegals,that our economy would falter without these illegals,where was your outrage then?
Its just like the trillions Bush set us back in debt and that's OK but the Obama debt? OMG that just unAmerican!!!
One big difference in the record debt Bush gave us and Obamas,Bush did this in a time of economic boom,a fiscally responsible Pres would pay down debt and maybe set aside some for all those crisis' that Bush kept talking about!

The Reagan-Bush deregualtion legacy continues. When are we going to learn that what's good for the corporations is not good for the citizens of our nation:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/opinion/17krugman.html?_r=1

Of course Democrats are out pacing Republicans in voter registration -- they give better treats.

Benjamin Franklin said, "Place before the eyes of such men a post of honor, that shall, at the same time, be a place of profit, and they will move heaven and earth to obtain it."

Who knew he was talking about the voters?

The morally corrupt Republicans even stooped to the lowest of lows attempting to keep Democrats from voting and they still lost.
right here in Florida Jeb hired a company to purge almost 90k voters,closer examination of this list proved 95% WERE eligible to vote!


"The Election Protection Wiki tracked a widespread effort in which text messages were sent to Democrats in several states, advising them they should avoid the lines and vote Wednesday. This happened in Missouri, Florida, Minnesota, Montana, Idaho, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Virginia and other states. Similarly voters in Missouri and other states reported receiving robo-calls with a similar message. Also, in Florida Democratic voters were called and told they could avoid lines by voting by phone, given a number to call, and after "voting" were told they didn't have to go to the polls."
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Voter_suppression

9:38
I am truly amazed that you would admit that your voters are of the intellectual capacity to fall for something like that and that you would want someone that IQ challenged to actually step into a voting booth.

But then again, maybe I'm not that surprised after all.

9:17

Baaah!

Tanslation - don't allow companies to make money, because companies that make money are evil... screw the employees of companies that make money... employees are only there to enrich the owners and bosses... employees would much rather be unemployed than working...

Baaah!

9:01 (Tom)

I'm not sure why I need to tell you this but, illegals CAN NOT VOTE, THEY ARE ILLEGAL.

As far as your idiotic comment on "guest workers", you are all wrong there too. Guest workers are those whom follow the proper channels; are known to our government and work here legally. They are not the wetbacks that sneak into the country in the dead of night to suck off the gov't teet right next to the likes of you.

Also, your ignorance is blatant in that you do not know that many guest workers (here legally) actually earn much more than minimum wage. Enough to send Billions back to their family in Mexico. You call that inhumane? Dolt!

If there are some, ILLEGAL ALIENS that are abused due to their ILLEGAL STATUS, F-them.

Reagan did what he had to do, but at the time said THAT WE WOULD PROTECT AGAINST THE INVASION OF ILLEGALS. As you know, our representatives of all stripes failed to protect us from the influx and in some cases caused it to swell with FREE HEALTHCARE, SOCIAL SECURITY AND OTHER BENEFITS MANY AMERICANS DO NOT ENJOY.

As far as GWB and McCain, have you noticed they lost their CONSERVATIVE support? This was due to their stance on Amnesty for Illegals, run away LIBERAL spending and their inability to stand up to the National Socialist American Workers' Party; otherwise known as the Democrap Party.

‘The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.’


10:32 The "liar for hire" is just sayin the spin the Limbaugh gang has prepared.

So you admit the failure was Bush's and you voted for him - twice. Why should anyone listen to you now - chances are you're wrong again.

10:41 (Tom)

The truth is the truth and facts are facts. I know that is difficult for you to comprehend because of your inability to take a stand on anything.

Bush was the better of 2 evils. Gore and Kerry would have been disasters of epic proportions because they would have spent more than Bush AND let the Islamo-Fascists run right over us. (like our present Dear Leader)

The economy tanked because we gave free money and houses to those unable to ever pay it back. Then taking those bad mortgages and bundling them into securities was a disaster.

If you believe that Bush or the Republicans were solely responsible for that mess; you are a bigger idiot than I thought. The National Socialist American Workers’ Party (Democraps) were all over that one with CRA, GLB and more.

With that said; how you go from your Bush Derangement Syndrome to electing a person we all knew was a flat out Socialist is mind-boggling.

Kinda like drinking rat poison with a cyanide chaser.

Gulp!

11:02 Woah! I'll bet your tinfoil hat looks like a corkscrew after that rant!

Well it seems you are OK with an intentional trick to guess whether someone should be eligible to vote,maybe next election we will ask the little fox watchers and ditto heads if we found WMD's in Iraq or maybe we'll ask if Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein were friends!!!
LOL,we know how many would fox watching ditto heads would get those answers wrong!

"9:38
I am truly amazed that you would admit that your voters are of the intellectual capacity to fall for something like that and that you would want someone that IQ challenged to actually step into a voting booth.

But then again, maybe I'm not that surprised after all.

Posted by: Amazed | July 17, 2009 at 10:08 AM"

This is good news. It looks as though people are not buying into the conservative spin as promulgated by the Limbaugh-Hannity-Beck-Fox echo chamber. People are suffering everywhere and they know who's really to blame. They see that the President is working hard to fix the mess, and they know who behind the obstruction and the partisan desire to see our nation fail.

Here is the founding father of the conservative movement as it is known today.He co-founded the moral majority and the extremist organization The Heritage Foundation which to this day still try to suppress votes through all manors of deciet and lies.
This very unAmerican of a man tells an audience he does not want people to vote,the fewer people that vote the higher republicans chances of winning that election.
Watch this NAZI/Republican in action!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GBAsFwPglw

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