According to Jay Newton-Small at Swampland, during the last weekend of voter registration for the primary "33,281 Republicans and Independents changed their voter registration to Democratic and 44,867 new voters registered" as Democrats. (Newton-Small mistakenly says that's one day's take, when in fact it's all registration from that three-day weekend, which all hit the boards of election offices on Monday because they're closed weekends.)
As of today's count, there are 4,119,213 registered Democrats in Pennsylvania. Last Monday, it was 4,044,952, a jump of 74,261. To give you a sense of scale, only 2.9 million people voted for John Kerry in Pennsylvania in 2004.
Apparently, they're still not done counting. Final totals next week. Why? It hadn't occurred to me, given that I was physically collecting registrations and walking them over to the office, but a lot of people mailed their registrations in. They didn't even hit the office until later that week, and some may still be in transit.
Wow.
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