Facing South reports:
North Carolina has witnessed a surge in voter registrations this election year. Nearly 89,000 new voters have registered to vote in the last three months, according to new statistics released last Friday.
http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2 008/03/89000-new-voters-in-north-carolin a-who.asp
This is great news for Dems in the upcoming primary on May 6th.
46% of new voter registrations Democrat; 37% Unaffiliated; 17% Republican.As for Democrats, here's a very important statistic: 63% of the growth in N.C. Democratic voter registrations since January has been due to new African-American voters. Black voters make up 45% of registered Democrats in the state, and 20% of the overall N.C. electorate.
A final interesting tidbit: the demographic groups that have added the most voters since January are those identifying as "Hispanic" (10% increase) and "Other" (4%). Those two groups still represent a relatively small share of the state's voters -- 134,000 state-wide, or just over 2% of North Carolina voters. But in a close primary, that could make a difference.
This is most certainly a factor in recent polls that show Obama pulling ahead of Clinton in the state.
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