 | Politics "wid" a taste of Philly, by Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News |
| Politics "wid" a taste of Philly, by Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News |
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| Voters register yesterday at Board of Elections on Delaware Avenue. (Elwood P. Smith / Daily News) |
It seems certain that the number of new Philadelphia voters will be the second highest ever -- topped only by the stark-contrast 1983 mayoral primary between "law-and-order" rowhouse champ Frank Rizzo and W. Wilson Goode, on his way to becoming the city's first black mayor.
And 2004's new Philly voters are registering Democratic over the GOP -- by an astounding 9-1 margin! The Philly suburbs and Pittsburgh -- the two major battlegrounds within Pa. -- are also seeing Democrats sign up at a greater rate than in past years.
Here's a special report from Campaign Extra!:
Mike Verzella, a 23-year-old student at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, used to be registered to vote in his native South Jersey, but in 2004 he wants to be where the action is.
So about five hours before last night’s midnight deadline, Verzella joined a steady stream of first-time voters and transplants at the city Board of Elections — the tail end of the biggest flood of new voter sign-ups here in more than two decades.
“It’s going to be such a battle here,” Verzella said. “I felt that Pennsylvania needed my vote more than New Jersey,” where experts think Democrat John Kerry is already a lock.
That’s not the case here in Pennsylvania, a tossup battleground state where both Kerry and President Bush are spending millions of dollars on voter registration and TV ads in pursuit of 21 electoral votes that could decide the whole election.
In particular, the Democrats and a number of pro-Kerry committees have poured a lot of that effort into Philadelphia. Here, the Massachusetts senator is likely to get nearly 80 percent of the vote, but poverty and large numbers of students and other transients have in the past held down voter turnout.
Although the final tally won’t be known until later this week, city election officials expected new and changed registrations to probably surpass 225,000 — the most registration activity since the 1983 mayoral primary between the late Philly icon, Frank Rizzo, and W. Wilson Goode, the city’s first black mayor. That year, 293,000 applications were processed.
Of the 204,808 new registrations processed through Sunday, Democrats held a nearly 9-1 edge on the GOP. There were 157,433 Democratic forms, 28,925 no-party or third-party, and just 18,450 Republicans. What’s more, 1,717 Philadelphians switched parties to become Democrats, and just 927 joined the GOP.
The heavy number of new voters was mirrored in the suburban counties surrounding Philadelphia, where officials also reported near-record sign-ups. So far, Democrats have had an edge in Montgomery, Delaware, Bucks and Chester counties.
Experts say that both the closeness of the 2000 election and the deep partisan divide between Bush and Kerry is driving the high levels of interest. A number of organized groups — some very partisan, some independent like MTV’s Rock the Vote — have made more of an effort to register voters than any year in history.
Steve Gulick, 56, who teaches remedial reading at Philadelphia Community College, was one of several faculty members who led a registration drive there. He pulled three voter forms from his backpack, and had hand delivered 26 other registrations earlier in the year.
Gulick — wearing a button saying “Dissent is Patriotic” — said scores of students had registered, including many who mailed in their forms. Some of his students, he noted, are “vociferous in their opposition to Bush.”
Most new voters said they planned to vote for Kerry — with varying degrees of enthisiasm. Verzella, the art student, called the Democrat “the lesser of two evils.”
Pretty impressive numbers for the Dems. And i even heard a rumor that some of the new voters actually live here and are alive!
Posted by: jeff at October 5, 2004 10:15 AMI heard that too! PA must be beating Ohio for live registerd voters.
Posted by: Tod at October 5, 2004 12:32 PMTwenty minutes after this report was filed the FBI raided the election board, going off 10 month wire tapping evidence and held all registration forms as evidence until at least next spring.
Aaaaah politics in PA, like NJ but with fewer landfills to hide the bodies.
Posted by: Rob at October 5, 2004 03:07 PMEdwards won this debate because he came prepared. He knocked out Cheney in the first few minutes, like Bush Cheney sounded like he was on the campaign stump. Saying the same things over and over again. Cheney looked more like a principal scolding the smart student. Edwards looked fresh, prepared and knowledgable on domestic and foreign issues. Edwards took more punches at Cheney and Cheney was boring and at one time looked at his watch and then caught himself doing so.
In other words out with the old and in with the new. I remember someone telling me once that it is a wonder when the student does better than the teacher. Edwards should teach Cheney Debate 101, he kept Cheney on the defense the entire time.
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