Report: Obama Registration Efforts Flagging


Despite pouring resources into scores of voter-registration events in the last week alone, a Boston Globe analysis found that the Obama campaign has failed to significantly swell the rolls of Democratic voters in battleground states.





In five battleground states the for which the Globe was able
to analyze registration data, Democratic registration increased by
39,580 voters, while Republican registration increased by 145,085.



The Obama campaign says that its successful registration efforts in
2008 largely exhausted the pool of unregistered Democrats, while the
Republican primaries earlier this year provided a registration
opportunity that Democrats were not afforded.



The Globe cited a study released earlier this week by Third
Way, a left-leaning think tank, that showed Democratic registration down
800,000 people in eight battleground states and Republican registration
down by 80,000 in those same states. Independent registration, on the
other hand, has grown by nearly half a million voters in those states.