Democracy North Carolina, a group advocating election reform, claims the number of registered voters in the state has increased by 210,000 since 2008. Over the same period, the number of Democrats has shrunken by 102,800; Republicans, 12,400. At the time of the report, the number of registered voters in North Carolina was 6,465,000. What does this mean?

  1. More kids from the up and coming generation are named Ulysses, Uma, and Ursula.
  2. Democracy North Carolina wants to light a firecracker under the seat of GOTV campaigners.
  3. Election reform in one year of nonexistence has already wrought enough damage to cancel five years of progress.
  4. Parties are becoming irrelevant as the Wee People can now mine data on candidates issue by issue online.
  5. DNC wants to downplay the fact that the Libertarians netted half a voter.
  6. We love counting colors. On the twelfth day of Christmas, my truelove gave to me: twelve black Hispanics, eleven other males, ten white transgenders, nine lady UNA’s, eight undocumented biracials, seven senior Repos, . . .
  7. Slow news day.