Brain Fertilizer

Ace asks How many new registrations are real?

He then goes on to note:

It could be that Republicans -- who, let's face it, do a lot less of this outright criminal crap; this is a product of the old Democratic machine politics -- are doing a lot better in terms of registrations that will actually produce votes than we believe.

Well, isn't that already reflected in the generally-accepted premise that Republicans usually do better in pollings of "likely voters" than "registered voters"?