From Michael McDonald --- 2008 Voter Registration Stats from the AP

In Sum: Republican voter registration in 2008 increased .5% and Democratic registration increased almost 11%!

From: Michael McDonald <mmcdon@gmu.edu>
Date: Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Subject: [EL] 2008 Voter Registration Stats from the AP
To: Election Law <election-law@mailman.lls.edu>

Just in time for Tuesday's Senate hearings.  I've posted the 2008 state and national voter registration statistics, both totals and by party for the twenty-nine states that have partisan registration, courtesy of the fine people at the Associated Press Elections Research and Quality Control Group. 

http://elections.gmu.edu/Registration_2008G.html

Here are the highlights:

In 2008, the nation experienced a 5.4% increase in registration over 2004, from 177.4 million to 187.0 million registrants. Statistics from the twenty-nine states that have partisan voter registration suggest that the national increase came primarily from Independents and Democrats. Among these twenty-nine states, the number of registrants identifying with the Democratic Party increased 10.8%, compared to 0.5% for Republicans and 12.0% for Independents.