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fizzgig

(24,146 posts)
Sun Sep 14, 2014, 12:21 PM Sep 2014

Activists target Colorado in "ground game" fight

deep snip

The lack of participation is especially pronounced among non-white voters, unmarried women and Americans younger than 30, according to forecasts released by the Voter Participation Center, an advocacy group devoted to increasing turnout by these groups.

Although Colorado is split almost in half between voters who fit these three categories and those that do not, the group estimates that a much larger percentage of single women, non-white voters and the young won't go the polls this year.

In raw numbers, about 361,000 Democratic-leaning voters in Colorado are not expected to cast a ballot this year, compared with about 293,000 truants who are more likely to support the GOP.

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As of Sept. 1, there were roughly 57,000 more registered Republicans in Colorado than registered Democrats. Last year the GOP's edge in registration was about 28,000 — roughly half that.


the rest from the denver post.

good read all the way through, but those numbers are a reminder that we need to gotv.
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