California set to break voting records

Posted by Rick Orlov on October 28, 2008 1:05 PM | | Comments (0) |

California is set to break voter registration records in an election that could result in the nation's first African American president or first woman vice president. Sacramento Bee.

The deadline for reporting pre-election registration is Friday, but preliminary counts already exceed 17 million - higher than the state's previous best of 16.6 million, Nicole Winger, spokeswoman for the secretary of state, said Tuesday.

The soaring rolls are good news for Democrats, who held a lead of nearly 12 percentage points over Republicans in statewide voter registration through Sept. 5, the most recent figures available

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