Pendulum swings wildly among electorate

The front page story, “Southeastern CT sees voter registration surge,” (Aug. 18), superbly recounts numerous factors responsible for this remarkable surge in citizen activity. However it underestimates the so-called “Trump Effect.”

It is a virtual certainty that had Barack Obama not been a leftist-activist, President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign would have never approached the success he achieved. During the Obama era, Republican voter registration surged not only in conservative “Red” states but in “Purple” swing states as well (Ohio, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Wisconsin, etc., all of which Trump carried.)

That was a conservative groundswell reacting to Obama’s far-left agenda, which ironically put Trump in the White House.

Almost immediately after our current president began his right-wing crusade in office, democratic registration began surging in similar fashion. What we are seeing now is the pendulum swinging the opposite direction in “blue” states like Connecticut.

This is why impartial professional analysts currently believe the Democrats are a slight favorite to capture a Congressional majority on Nov. 6. However, given that 50 out of 51 Senate Republicans voted down funds allocated to combat Russian manipulation of our electoral process, Democrats best not count their chickens before they hatch. Martin Crane New London