Some numbers were running through my head this morning:
- PA Democratic Registration Advantage, November 1998: 442,671.
- PA Democratic Registration Advantage, May 2008: 1,014,052
- Percent of Pennsylvania House Reps that are Democratic: 50.2%
- Percent of Pennsylvania Senators that are Democratic: 42%
Dear Pennsylvania Democratic Party and activists: Get it together. A basic tie in the House and a huge GOP majority in the Senate is a sad commentary on the state of the PA Democratic party.
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- Number of passwords that the City Commissioners determined they could give out to view election returns: 150
- The number of passwords that Vince Fumo had by himself: 10
- The number of Philadelphia citizens who have now requested their own password within the last 5 days: 327
For those people who submitted them Friday, you should hear something by Friday (5 business days), and a final decision within thirty days.
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- Days until the November Election: 104
- Average PA Poll Lead for Barack Obama: 9.7%
- Number of pundits who have stated the obvious, that Barack Obama is going to kick John McCain's ass in PA: 0(?)
I am not saying we don't need to work hard here to get this done, because we do. But, as long as we do, McCain may as well not run an ad in PA.
What else is going on?
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Tonight!
I am going to this monthly happy hour for public interest-y lawyers (yeah, I know, I am mostly faking it). If you are into it, let me know and I'll tell you where/when.
redistricting
Just like to point out the reason why registration numbers don't correspond to representation is gerrymandering. If democrats are all packed into a few districts republicans can easily overcome our regisration advantage.
In other words, this isn't a problem of getting people to the polls. It's problem of vote dilution.
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