A Ray of Hope

Every day until the election,?Slate?will offer up one reason to be optimistic for your candidate.

Today?s Good News for Romney: Don?t talk too loudly about it, but the campaign to kill ACORN?and by extension, lots of voter registration drives?has neutralized one of the Democratic Party?s long-time advantages. As Molly Ball reports in The Atlantic, the great ACORN panic of 2009 resulted in the collapse of the organization and a crop of new Republican legislators who tightened voter registration laws. In the cause of preventing bureaucrats from dealing with a few junk petitions, states have effectively slashed the sort of independent efforts that a young Barack Obama managed in 1992, at Illinois?s Project Vote. For example: In 2008, Nevada had 100,000 more registered Democrats than registered Republicans, and the Obama-Biden ticket carried the state by more than 120,000 votes. In 2012, the Democratic advantage is down to 55,000.

See Mitt Romney?s good news from Day 43.

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