Blue Tide: Cumberland County

by: Thurman Hart

Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 12:33:25 PM EDT

As of Tuesday -- the last day for a New Jersey resident to register to vote in this year's presidential election -- there were almost 10,000 more registered Democrats in Cumberland County compared with registered Republicans.

In February of this year, the difference was only about 4,000.

The largest bloc of voters, as in most NJ counties, are the unaffiliated voters, which number 47,482.  As I've noted elsewhere, given the lack of any reason to expect differently, those unaffiliated voters will likely split in a similar manner as the partisan voters.  That would mean a likely near-20,000 vote surplus for Democrats in Cumberland County.