WOW! Just in the last seven primaries, no less than a million people have joined the Democratic Party, increasing a margin the bluies have had by a stranglehold since the real start of the 2008 nomination campaigns.

What is heartening, at least to me, is that many of the new Democrats are not new voters but from the Republican/GOP camp or former third party/independent status. And I think their decision to go blue can be accounted for in a number of ways:

* excitement with the Dem candidates
* Bush - GOP scandals backlash
* that up to 80% of Americans feel the Bushies killed the economy and feel the country in all respects is headed 110 MPH in the wrong direction
* a desire to belong to the only party where they can even dream someone will listen to them
* absolute terror (and not of rogue bombers)
* fear for their children in Bush’s economy and Bush’s wars, given how John McCain praises his efforts