{"id":20454,"date":"2019-11-03T12:21:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T17:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20454"},"modified":"2019-11-03T12:41:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T17:41:44","slug":"make-new-friends-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20454","title":{"rendered":"Make new friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is already pretty obvious, but Spectrum reports,&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/capital-region\/politics\/2019\/11\/02\/new-york-keeps-getting-bluer-as-republican-enrollment-continues-to-slide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Keeps Getting Bluer As Republican Enrollment Continues To Slide<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;There are now 18,287 fewer active enrolled Republican voters in New York state in the three years since <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">President Donald Trump<\/a> was first elected, new voter enrollment statistics released by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elections.ny.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Board of Elections<\/a> show &#8230; The new numbers show there are now 2,630,555 active <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nygop.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Republicans in New York<\/a>, a decline from 2,648,842 GOP voters in November 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydems.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Democrats<\/a> have added more than a quarter million enrolled active voters during that same time period \u2014 273,684 voters, according to the new data &#8230; In the rear view mirror for Republicans is the growing number of voters who have chosen to not enroll in party or \u201cblanks.\u201d Statistics show there are now more than 2.5 million voters who do not identify with a party, a gain of 62,639 voters over three years. The ranks of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpnys.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Conservative Party<\/a> have also fallen in the last three years, declining by 4,224 active voters during the same time period &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>People are not putting up with the GOP and CP being little more than rubberstamps for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Governor Cuomo<\/a> and the far-left.<\/p>\n<p>There is no alternative for 2A advocates but to be involved in Democrat politics.\u00a0 Gun owners must attend their events, take part in their candidate selection process and vote in their primaries.\u00a0 Even if all Republicans in the legislature vote in unison they have no ability to advance or block legislation.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D20454&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; 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