Democratic Voter Registration Is Down

It seems like Democratic voter registration is down:

Voter registration in the Buckeye State is down by 490,000 people from four  years ago. Of that reduction, 44 percent is in Cleveland and surrounding  Cuyahoga County, where Democrats outnumber Republicans more than two to one.

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An August study by the left-leaning think tank Third Way showed that the  Democratic voter registration decline in eight key swing states outnumbered the  Republican decline by a 10-to-one ratio. In Florida, Democratic registration is  down 4.9 percent, in Iowa down 9.5 percent. And in New Hampshire, it’s down down  19.7 percent.

I have two immediate reactions. First, I’m pleased to see that Republicans appear to be doing a better job than Democrats when it comes to voter registration.

Second,  models predicting an electorate heavy on Democrats, as in the election of 2008, are playing a dangerous guessing game.