Apparently not if the new voter registration numbers are to be believed. As with the registration figures during the 2006 and 2008 election cycles, the Democratic Party enjoys not only increasing number of state citizens, but also an increasing disparity between itself and the supposedly reinvigorated DE GOP.
From the News Journal:
Numbers released Monday by Elections Commissioner Elaine Manlove show that the Democratic Party outnumbers the Republican Party by a 3-2 ratio — having added more than 25,000 voters since mid-summer of 2008 for a total of 289,520 of Delaware’s 614,644 voters. The GOP has added about 3,000 voters in the same period. In New Castle County, the ratio is 2-to-1 Democratic.
So over the last 18 months, the Democratic Party has added eight voters to its rolls for every one the GOP has added. That is astounding. And supposedly this came during a time when Americans and Delawareans in particular are “fed up” with Democrats running the state and country, if you believe David Anderson, Hube and the other stellar prognosticators on the right.
Also in the article is the list of political parties in Delaware, which in find interesting:
American, 81
Federalist, 6
Citizens, 30
Democratic, 289,520
Liberal, 158
New Frontier, 5
Non Partisan, 337
Green, 561
Unaffiliated, 137,888
Working Families, 512
A Delaware, 79
Libertarian, 822
Reform, 127
New Alliance, 26
Others, 421
US Taxpayer, 93
Constitution, 283
Republican, 181,050
National Statesman, 1
Conservative, 89
National Unity, 25
Natural Law, 158
Independent of Del., 1,794
Rights Of Life, 2
Blue Enigma, 304
Socialist Workers, 272TOTALS, 614,644
I want to meet the one member of the National Statesman Party. Is it Joe Lieberman?