by Javier Manjarres
In what amounts to an embarrassing piece of news for the Republican Party in Florida, the number of people in Broward County registered as Republicans now trails both Registered Democrats AND Registered Independents. Broward Republicans now trail that highly organized political party, affectionately known as “Other” by close to 1000 votes. See results taken as of 27 Jan 11 from the Broward SOE. In early December 2010, the Republican party had only 50 more registered voters than “other”.
Unfortunately, this result for the Republican party is the culmination of a of lack of outreach and voter registration efforts in the county for years, and there is no way to spin this positively, only to say that this trend needs to be turned around immediately. The Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) is struggling with a 700,000+ voter registration deficit to the Democrat Party.
Jay Narang, the President of the largest Republican club in Broward County, Southwest Broward Republican Organization(SWBRO), has been leading the the efforts in his area of the county to help stem the Democrat voter registration tide:
“SWBRO’s Committee Chairs are now working towards developing their Project Plans for this year and will present an outline to the membership on Feb 7th. Once the plans are ready we will look to partner with organizations such as AnyStreet to aggressively pursue registration efforts. We are aware that Ms. Von Hohenzollern is working on such an initiative and we plan on discussing partnered drives towards this goal.”
Anystreet is a national grassroots organization that has recently focused it’s efforts on voter outreach and registration in the the state of Florida. With the assistance of State Committeeman and 2nd Amendment crusader Bill Bunting of Pasco County, Anystreet has managed to position it’s voter registration efforts all of the local gun shows in south Florida, especially focusing on the Fort Lauderdale Gun Show.
How much of an impact could this voter disparity could make on the 2012 elections remains to be seen, as Florida will once again become a battleground state for many key re-election bids as well as a critical state for Republicans if they are to win back the White House.
16 Responses to “GOP is Officially the “Third Party” in Broward County”
I think the RBN and some of the other clubs would have something to say about who the largest Republican club in Broward is. Once again, Javier gets it wrong as he tries to promote his buddy Jay Narang.
I bet more people would say I am more with the Tea Party movement then establishment republicans. SO could this be true… maybe, are they independents. No, the natural home of conservatives is the republican party.
Sorry, In the Tank, but the topic of the article was that there are more independents then Republicans or Democrats as registered voters. You seem very bitter in your nitpicking of a judgement made by the author of a rather inconsequential fact in the article.
You can thank the (former) leadership of the Broward Republican Executive Committee for those numbers. They drove many people away. Hopefully the new leadership will focus on developing the clubs and getting the membership up again.
lol…well not on my side of town….we went red, not purple…neighbors totally tea drinkers….someone slanted that report!
Maybe Rubio should have gone to the TEA meeting rather than hang with Rove
Javier, this is old news. Now Chairman DeNapoli brought up this stat when he appeared at the RBN candidate forum when he was running for chair last November. He also published the numbers the day Republicans went below NPAs and third parties on his facebook page in the beginning of this month.
Considering the direction of the democrat pary, at least on a National level, what does that say about both republican leadership and the people in the county? While one may argue that the secular progressive direction of the national party toward a socialist and anti-traditional America does not represent the local party, they do, indeed, always support the national party and their representatives. If Broward county residents prefer big government, high debt, gay rights et al, then they are not likely to register as republican. Hopefully that doesn’t represent America or Florida in general or we are all in trouble.
Given the actions of the RPOF under the crist-greer-McCollum cabal and the wholly inappropriate interventions they conjured up during the primary, why would these desertions be news? Couple that with the actions of Cornyn during this last cycle as head of the NRSC exhibiting his loathing of Conservatives along with the anemic performance of the republicans in the house and senate over the past two years, throw that show dog Steele in the mix to boot and who on earth could blame anyone for running like hell away from these Elitist Ruling Class scum?
Any faction of the republican party today should be glad they are still in business. It is hoped that “they” well understand that this is their probationary period. Screw us again and watch your cash cow wither away. Hopefully, they now know we actually do have somewhere else to go.
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I use to live in Broward County. I left because I spoke English and hardly anyone else did. Maybe there is a communication problem in understanding the difference between parties, so selecting other makes sense to people who just don’t know.
The official republican party in florida has been a dead fish for years. They don’t listen, but beg for your money. Many of us that used to give, and would give, don’t give to the official party. For they lack conservative standards. Don’t have a backbone. And are condencending to those that they try to pat down for votes and money. Just remember 2006 and 2008. If the republican leadership want a repeat of the exodus, but on a larger scale. Ignore the blood and guts of both this party, and the nation. “Conservatives” The REPUBLICAN PARTY will be the third party, if they fail to lead as conservatives. For there are enough conservatives, fed up with the lies of the party, to form their own. Yes we will lose. But jello republicans lose also, just a shade slower.
Just keep the real conservatives coming to the fore in the primaries. New Candidates needed. Not the “old guard” and that includes Bush , C.Mack, LeMieux, etc.
What do you expect with a corrupt and inept BREC that might as well be Dimocraps themselves. With those criminals and buffoons in charge its a wonder there are any Repubs at all in Broward.
everything I read is full of bitterness and prejudice statements….
“left Broward because she spoke English”? I hope that more like this person leave Broward….we do not need this type, everyone should know that the Independents vote Republican when Voting time comes, because they are CONSERVATIVE…and DEFENDERS of the Constitution….that’s what I did, I register Independent, was a Registered Republican, but as long as the Democrats stay on the far left progressive side they will not win…of course they lie, do you see any TRANSPARENCY????…the Republicans have learned their lesson, and if they don’t do what We the People voted them for, we will get them and any other Democrats, too. There are a few Democrats that are decent citizens that love our Country and our Constitution…..
If you think it’s prejudiced to notice that Florida is drowning in a sea of people who refuse to speak English, you need to 1) stop taking drugs and 2) stop kissing that statue of political correctness. That has been a Florida problem for YEARS.
As far as the GOP being the third party goes, I’m not surprised. You can only disguise the odor of trash for so long. If the clubs had the guts to be conservative, then I daresay they would have a problem keeping people OUT.