Thousands of new voter applications flooded election offices around the state yesterday, with the number of Democratic voters already at an all-time record as Pennsylvania's registration deadline expired at midnight. Final numbers won't be known until the end of the month, after county election officials have processed all the applications. But registered Democrats in Pennsylvania already outnumber Republicans by an unprecedented 1.17 million voters - considered bad news for presidential candidate John McCain and everyone below him on the Republican ticket.
"For the past 15 years, from the early 1990s until last year, there were about half a million more Democrats in the state than Republicans. Since late last year, that number has doubled," said Philadelphia political consultant Neil Oxman, who normally works for Democrats. "It's a real statement about voters and how angry they are with the Bush administration."
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