Republicans unable to stop the post-primary bleeding

After a deluge of Republicans switched party registration to vote in April's historic presidential primary, the state GOP was hoping it could regain some lost ground once the primary was over

No such luck.

The Inquirer reports that Democrats have added more voters than Republicans in 62 of the state's 67 counties since the primary. Almost 1,500 voters have left the GOP in the same period. 

With the state electorate leaning gradually more Democratic over the last decade, Democrats now have an edge over Republicans of about one million voters, and the shifts have been significant in the critical Philadelphia suburbs.

"That's part of the long-term trend," Chris Borick, a political science professor at Muhlenberg College, told The Inqurer. "The primaries were, if you look at it, a peak or a little bit of a spike, but they weren't some kind of outlier event."