The Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis
The party is bleeding support beyond the ballot box, a new analysis shows.

 

Of the 30 states that track voter registration by political party, Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between the 2020 and 2024 elections — and often by a lot.

That four-year swing toward the Republicans adds up to 4.5 million voters, a deep political hole that could take years for Democrats to climb out from.

 

In fact, for the first time since 2018, more new voters nationwide chose to be Republicans than Democrats last year.

All told, Democrats lost about 2.1 million registered voters between the 2020 and 2024 elections in the 30 states, along with Washington, D.C., that allow people to register with a political party. (In the remaining 20 states, voters do not register with a political party.) Republicans gained 2.4 million.

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/democratic-party-voter-registration-crisis.html

 

The progressive woke left was rejected at the last election. The Democratic Party's focus is 100% on villainizing Trump rather than coming up with policies that would see the party move back toward the centre. No wonder voter registration is going the way it is.

And they still have not learned 

6 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

And they still have not learned 

I pity the poor yanks, esp the small businesses who are starting to suffer. Read the full article.....the worst is yet to come so don't start smirking just yet, you MAGA trumpies:-

American businesses in ‘survival mode’ as Trump tariffs pile up

Just over six months into Trump’s campaign to rebalance global trade, some American small businesses are already on the brink. Others have chosen to throw in the towel. Last week, the US and China agreed to extend, by another 90 days, a pause on tariffs that would have soared to a catastrophic 145%, averting a worst-case scenario – a complete halt of trade between the world’s two largest economies.

 

But the pause has done nothing for many American small-business owners paying the tariffs it left in place, such as a minimum 30% duty for goods from China or a 50% import tax on products made from foreign steel and aluminium.

 

Howard Miller, a family-owned manufacturer of handcrafted clocks and home furniture based in Zeeland, Michigan, said last month that it planned to shut down operations next year after 99 years in business. The company, which employs nearly 200 people at factories in Michigan and North Carolina, said in a statement that it was already grappling with a soft housing market when tariffs hit supply chains and “sparked recession fears”.

 

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/american-businesses-in-survival-mode-as-trump-tariffs-pile-up/FCKURLMMIJADVBXJOPKGK25KQM/

Why is this topic in the lounge? Isn't there another forum about US politics?

Moved this topic from The Lounge to Political Soapbox.

16 hours ago, dinsdale said:

The Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis
The party is bleeding support beyond the ballot box, a new analysis shows.

 

Of the 30 states that track voter registration by political party, Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between the 2020 and 2024 elections — and often by a lot.

That four-year swing toward the Republicans adds up to 4.5 million voters, a deep political hole that could take years for Democrats to climb out from.

 

In fact, for the first time since 2018, more new voters nationwide chose to be Republicans than Democrats last year.

All told, Democrats lost about 2.1 million registered voters between the 2020 and 2024 elections in the 30 states, along with Washington, D.C., that allow people to register with a political party. (In the remaining 20 states, voters do not register with a political party.) Republicans gained 2.4 million.

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/democratic-party-voter-registration-crisis.html

 

The progressive woke left was rejected at the last election. The Democratic Party's focus is 100% on villainizing Trump rather than coming up with policies that would see the party move back toward the centre. No wonder voter registration is going the way it is.

No wonder why they were importing millions of migrants!

the Dem's have lost 2.1 million  voters.

You make 'woke left' sound like a compliment. Wish i was woke left.

8 hours ago, riclag said:

No wonder why they were importing millions of migrants!

the Dem's have lost 2.1 million  voters.

Don’t forget your license plate next time you vote!!oh boy!!

It's very hard to support the dems and their stupid policies. 

On 8/22/2025 at 10:13 AM, Trippy said:

It's very hard to support the dems and their stupid policies. 

The party of they/them Dems are  trapped like rats, in far left Marxism !

Some might think its intentional ! Riddle me this , make everybody  exposed to their resistance movement,  so fed up with the insanity then have someone come in 

with half a brain to stop  the far lefts core beliefs ,as they pivot to old style

liberalism,such as in JFK's time.

 

 

On 8/21/2025 at 11:34 PM, Puccini said:

Why is this topic in the lounge? Isn't there another forum about US politics?

 

 

The skip?

 

 

On 8/22/2025 at 12:53 AM, riclag said:

No wonder why they were importing millions of migrants!

the Dem's have lost 2.1 million  voters.

 

 

Can anyone explain how these migrants get to vote.....and if so, in what kind of numbers?

 

 

35 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

 

 

Can anyone explain how these migrants get to vote.....and if so, in what kind of numbers?

 

 

I think the dems dream, is to give all the migrants a quick path to citizenship.

Just now, Trippy said:

I think the dems dream, is to give all the migrants a quick path to citizenship.

 

 

How quick is quick?.....genuine question.