Posted by
Ohio Voter on Saturday, September 27, 2008 7:51:28 PM
In my previous post
on the subject, I explained how in the 2000 election, Gore ran up a
large vote advantage in 16 largely metropolitan counties and then Bush
ran up an even larger vote advantage in the remaining 72 largely rural
Ohio counties, giving the state of Ohio to Bush.
In
2004, team Kerry clearly understood the dynamics of the state of Ohio.
They ran the numbers and felt they could easily pull an additional
100,000 - 200,000 votes from the metropolitan areas Gore won in 2000.
If they could do this and eat into Bush's lead in the rural counties,
Ohio would turn blue.
The first
step in this plan was to register more voters, and register they did.
By November 2004, Ohio's registered voters increased by 450,000. The
remarkable thing about this was that almost 400,000 of this increase
came from 16 counties. Yes, the 16 counties that Gore won in 2000.
In
my next post, we'll look at how Gore used this increase in registered
voters to his advantage and how Bush counteracted its impact.
I will also be cross posting these posts on my blogspot site as I can track visitors better there: http://ohiovoter.blogspot.com/