Number Of Democrats On The Increase In Arizona - AP

[WillyT]

Number of Democrats on the Increase in Arizona
October 28th, 2007 @ 4:14pm
by Associated Press

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PHOENIX - The GOP has lost ground to Democrats in both voter registration and fundraising in Arizona, the home state of conservative leader Barry Goldwater.

The Arizona Secretary of State's Office says that new voters who registered as Democrats outnumbered Republicans by nearly a 4-1 margin statewide during the third quarter of 2007. In Maricopa County, the state's most populous county, Democrats picked up more than 6,000 new voters from July through September. In contrast, Republicans lost nearly 300 voters during the same period.

The state Democratic Party also outpaced the Republican Party nearly 3-to-1 in raising money in the quarter. Democrats, who benefited from a fundraiser headlined by former President Bill Clinton, raised $79,800, according to the Federal Election Commission. The Republicans raised $27,100. For the year, Democrats have outpaced Republicans nearly 2-to-1 in 2007 fundraising. Democrats have collected $712,600 since January, while Republicans have bagged just $365,600.

Numbers like these have left Republicans searching for answers.

GOP political consultant Bert Coleman said party leaders are driving away voters and financial supporters. ``The Republican Party has spent the majority of the past year in a divisive state over issues such as immigration,'' said Coleman, president of Coleman Dahm & Associates, a Phoenix-based political consulting firm.

Coleman was critical of state Republican Party chairman Randy Pullen, who led a multimedia campaign against the U.S. Senate's compromise immigration bill that Arizona Republican Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl helped draft. ``Republicans need to work together, and Randy Pullen doesn't seem to know how to make that happen,'' he said.

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Well that's a great trend to see!

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[KingFlorez]

1. That is great news

[Bobbieo]

2. We need to get rid of the Republican/Mormon dominated state legislature