Voter registration data show that the Democratic Party might be in for a more brutal shellacking than generic polling data suggest.
More than one million suburban swing voters, the Associated Press reports, have switched parties to register Republican.
Those numbers back up what the polls predict: a GOP takeover of Congress in November, which might stall the Biden administration’s anti-white, anti-American, anti-Christian agenda.
Nationwide Trend
The bad news for party of LGBT, abortion, and minorities is that their hero, Joe Biden, is not “building back better,” at least as far as party loyalty goes.
“More than 1 million voters across 43 states have switched to the Republican Party over the last year, according to voter registration data,” AP reported:
The previously unreported number reflects a phenomenon that is playing out in virtually every region of the country — Democratic and Republican states along with cities and small towns — in the period since President Joe Biden replaced former President Donald Trump.
Worse still for Democrats, all those “suburban Moms,” whom the media incessantly claimed were so angry at Trump they would vote for Democrats, aren’t so sure that was a bright idea. They aren’t so sure they want “transgender” ideology and Critical Race Theory shoved down the throats of their kids. And maybe they aren’t so sure that Biden’s release of one million illegals to colonize their hometowns is a prudent public policy, even if he isn’t a mean tweeter. Nor do they like Biden’s China Virus obsession, 8.6 percent inflation, or $5 per gallon gas that ends in a $100 receipt at the filling station.
“Nowhere is the shift more pronounced — and dangerous for Democrats — than in the suburbs, where well-educated swing voters who turned against Trump’s Republican Party in recent years appear to be swinging back,” AP reported:
Over the last year, far more people are switching to the GOP across suburban counties from Denver to Atlanta and Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Republicans also gained ground in counties around medium-size cities such as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Raleigh, North Carolina; Augusta, Georgia; and Des Moines, Iowa.
Ben Smith, who lives in suburban Larimer County, Colorado, north of Denver, said he reluctantly registered as a Republican earlier in the year after becoming increasingly concerned about the Democrats’ support in some localities for mandatory COVID-19 vaccines, the party’s inability to quell violent crime and its frequent focus on racial justice.
“It’s more so a rejection of the left than embracing the right,” said Smith, a 37-year-old professional counselor whose transition away from the Democratic Party began five or six years ago when he registered as a libertarian.
Data Examined
AP studied voters across 42 states during the last 12 months; 1.7 million switched parties. But 66 percent, or one million, went to the GOP, while 630,000 became Democrats.
Though the big switch does not mean the GOP will retake Capitol Hill, it does “present a dire warning for Democrats who were already concerned about the macro effects shaping the political landscape this fall,” AP observed:
Roughly four months before Election Day, Democrats have no clear strategy to address Biden’s weak popularity and voters’ overwhelming fear that the country is headed in the wrong direction with their party in charge. And while Republicans have offered few policy solutions of their own, the GOP has been working effectively to capitalize on the Democrats’ shortcomings.
Republicans benefited last year as suburban parents grew increasingly frustrated by prolonged pandemic-related school closures. And as inflation intensified more recently, the Republican National Committee has been hosting voter registration events at gas stations in suburban areas across swing states like Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania to link the Biden administration to record-high gas prices. The GOP has also linked the Democratic president to an ongoing baby formula shortage.
The Real Clear Politics Average of polls on the generic congressional vote shows the GOP with a 2.5 lead, 44.8-42.3. The party has prevailed in six of the last 10 polls, sometimes by as much as nine points.
The question is whether the GOP — also known as the Stupid Party — will capitalize on Biden’s effort to destroy the economy, brainwash school kids, and flood the country with Third World immigrants.
