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Monday, March 31, 2008

4,119,213 Democrats in Pennsylvania

There's more Democrats running around Pennsylvania these days than you can shake a stick at.

Preliminary figures released by the state last week showed Democratic Party registration topping 4 million in Pennsylvania for the first time.

Updated figures released Monday show 4,119,213 registered Democrats in the Keystone State.

And that number will probably grow some more.

The latest totals reflect ongoing work by county officials to process registration applications that were filed or mailed in by the March 24 deadline, according to The Associated Press. State officials said it is likely to take another week or two to finish the job, the news service says.

The number of Democrats grew by 235,000, or 6 percent, since last November's election.

Republican Party enrollment dropped by 1.5 percent to 3,197,586, according to state officials.

The number of independents slipped by 3 percent to 953,562, the AP says.

A Democratic governor, a Democratic U.S. Senator, a Democratic majority in the state House, 12 Democratic U.S. House members out of a total of 19 in the Pennsylvania delegation. This state is turning a little too blue for my taste.

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