The Blue Chill in New Hampshire

By Jim on November 2nd, 2008

Ugh. The UL has some depressing election predictions.

Democrats didn’t just pick up a few extra registered voters over the past six years. They added more than 86,000 people and went from 25 percent to more than 30 percent of registered voters, based on latest registration figures at the Secretary of State’s office.

Republicans, meanwhile, added 14,600 voters and slipped from nearly 37 percent of all voters to 31 percent. As of August, the GOP’s 76,870-voter advantage in 2002 had fallen to a slim 4,900 — equal to a one-half of 1 percent advantage in a pool of 863,500 registered voters.

Undeclared voters, who now number 332,217, make up 38.5 percent of registered voters, compared to almost 38 percent in 2002.

I hope the voters of New Hampshire are smarter than to put the Democrats back into the majority in the state house again.