If the Democratic Party were a hospital patient, every monitor would be blaring emergency alarms.
The party is bleeding voter registrations – nationally and in North Carolina.
After the 2020 election, there were over 373,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans (2,620,162 to 2,246,540) in North Carolina.
Today, there are just over 15,800 more registered Democrats than Republicans here (2,312,027 to 2,296,173).
In four years, Democrats lost 95% of our registration advantage.
That’s not reassuring news for Roy Cooper’s Senate race next year – or for any Democrat on the ballot in 2026 and 2028.
Soon, North Carolina Democrats could rank third in registration, behind Republicans and Independents, who are in first place with over 2.9 million.
The New York Times reports (“The Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis”) that the same thing is happening across the country:
“Of the 30 states that track voter registration by political party, Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between the 2020 and 2024 elections — and often by a lot.
“That four-year swing toward the Republicans adds up to 4.5 million voters, a deep political hole that could take years for Democrats to climb out from.”
The Times quoted one non-partisan analyst: “I don’t want to say, ‘The death cycle of the Democratic Party,’ but there seems to be no end to this.”
The Democratic Party can’t get well until we admit it’s sick.
We need a head-to-toe examination of what’s wrong.
Or we’ll be doing an autopsy next.
