Thread by @lara_putnam

Another wk & the pace of party reg changers has barely slowed: 4,646 voters changed party reg in PA last wk, bringing YTD changers to over 39,000. While in first 6 wks of 2021 big trend was GOP to Other, this wk continued last wk's trend: folks came home to parties, just new ones

(for excessively long previous threads on topic, including important caveats re uneven data reporting, see👇)

https://twitter.com/lara_putnam/status/1363660207927287813

Regions in blue quadrant👇 saw net losses to GOP & net gains to Dems. White quadrant saw net losses to both: distance above green line reflects frequency of loss from major parties to Other. Almost everywhere has seen rate of movement to Other slow in last 2 wks (SCPA is holdout)

Sharp eyes will notice 👆stats are not by county but aggregated REGIONS🤯[How did it take me this long?]

(For even more obsessively long thread on these regions & why they're grouped as they are, & what political trends have been in them, see 🧵

https://twitter.com/lara_putnam/status/1328007510851276800

For last 2 wks, pattern of voters changing reg has really diverged by region, with central & western PA seeing both increased losses to Dems & increased gains to GOP—in contrast to prior 6 wks, when those regions saw net *losses* from GOP to Other, albeit not as fast as elsewhere

But that swing to GOP gains from registration changers in west & central PA is a tiny piece of the big picture of PA registratn changes: because those regions have relatively small #s of the extremely highly engaged voters motivated to formally change registr. While SEPA has LOTS