The voter registration gap between the two major political parties is closer now than at any point since
The Republican Party has taken a sizable bite out of the Democratic Party's longtime voter registration lead in Pennsylvania since 2020.We don’t yet know what it will mean for next week’s vote count, but Pennsylvania has definitely taken on a different shade of purple when it comes to the cold catergorization of one’s voter registration.
“You can’t think about what’s taken place over the last years without sort of thinking about Donald Trump’s influence,” said Marc Meredith, a political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania who has analyzed the numbers. Experts note that some of the closure is due to the fact that the cohort of older voters leaving the system through death, disability or other factors skews Democratic because more of those voters came of age in a time of higher union membership and a rich legacy of “New Deal” politics.
Democrats reached for this story tried to downplay the changes, noting that they see the registration shift as a lagging indicator of voter attitudes that have been baked in for years. “What matters is how people vote, not how they are registered,” said Marty Marks, a longtime Democratic Party strategist based in western Pennsylvania. Democrats have been on a 5-1 run in gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races here from 2014 through 2022, even as their registration gap has waned.
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