Unaffiliated on GOP's heels
By Burt Hubbard, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Published May 5, 2008 at 11:41 a.m.
Updated May 5, 2008 at 1:03 p.m.
The number of unaffiliated voters continued last month to edge closer to becoming the dominant voting bloc in the state.
Figures from the secretary of state's office show the gap between unaffiliateds and Republicans is less than 5,000 voters — 1,017,738 to 1,013,548. Democrats trail with 900,823 registered voters.
At the beginning of the year, Republicans had a 12,000 voter edge over unaffiliateds.
There were 2.94 million voters in Colorado at the beginning of April.
However, Democrats gained the most new voters, 7,000, among the three groups, and now make up 30.6% of the electorate — compared with 34.6% for Republicans and 34.4% for unaffiliateds.
Republicans gained 2,000 voters and unaffiliateds added 5,000.
Unaffiliated voters were the dominant group in 1990, but the Republicans emerged as the leader in voter registration by 1992.
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May 5, 2008
12:17 p.m.
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Steve writes:
"At the beginning of the year, Republicans had a 12,000 voter edge over Republicans."
I wonder how they did that?
May 5, 2008
12:34 p.m.
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Uno writes:
Steve, what sentence did you quote? I don't see it.
May 5, 2008
12:35 p.m.
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Diff writes:
I hope this mean more people who are not inclined to automatically follow parting lines and party thinking.
Be they Conservative or Liberal
I hope it means some actual independent thought, and opinions on issues.
Critical thinking -
Wow! What a concept?
May 5, 2008
12:46 p.m.
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Spencer writes:
It's called Bush Malaise
May 5, 2008
1:18 p.m.
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Spencer writes:
Uno, paragraph 3
May 5, 2008
2:17 p.m.
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rickg19611 writes:
"At the beginning of the year, Republicans had a 12,000 voter edge over Republicans."
Now that's a real race.....
1 - Republicans
2 - Republicans
3 - Unaffiliated
4 - Democrats
May 6, 2008
12:39 a.m.
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mtnsrfer writes:
Happy Cinco de mayo everyone. They have taken away the comments from the mayo thread, so I figured this one was as good as any other. 61 Illegals were just found in a tractor-trailor in San Diego. Sounds like a reason to celebrate to me!