In Pennsylvania, the quintessential battleground, Democrats had registration advantage of 517,310 among active voters in November 2020.
As of this summer: Only 53,303 voters.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
In North Carolina, Republicans erased roughly 95 percent of the registration advantage that Democrats held in the fall of 2020 by this summer.
The Dem edge is less than 17,000 — down from nearly 400,000 in 2020.
The Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis
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Again you’re looking at this incorrectly.
Dems need to be spending at minimum 40% of their budget on registering young left leaning people. Which there are many and who outperform previously registered voters
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Why 2026 will disappoint Democrats. The party doesn’t have the time for arguments over this.
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Some have dismissed registration as a lagging indicator in the past.
But in 2024 it proved prescient: Democratic weakness was concentrated where Trump was strongest, among men and younger voters. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
