Lieberman-Lamont Showdown: The Results are coming in

[Cubby]

I just thought I should let you guys know.

I'm working at the election tomorrow (in 6 hours!!). I'll be there for the morning shift (6 AM- 1 PM).

I got a call tonight from my town's registrar of voters. She said that thousands of independents across the state have switched their party registration to "Democrat" over the past few weeks in order to vote. She says it will be kind of chaotic because some people might think they're eligible to vote when they aren't, and I've worked enough elections to know that people can get very angry in those cases.

The polls open at 6 AM and close at 8 PM. I have to be there at 5:15 AM due to the unusual nature of tomorrow's election, we expect a lot of SNAFUS. I have to get some sleep now

[Cubby]

I just thought I should let you guys know.

I'm working at the election tomorrow (in 6 hours!!). I'll be there for the morning shift (6 AM- 1 PM).

I got a call tonight from my town's registrar of voters. She said that thousands of independents across the state have switched their party registration to "Democrat" over the past few weeks in order to vote. She says it will be kind of chaotic because some people might think they're eligible to vote when they aren't, and I've worked enough elections to know that people can get very angry in those cases.

The polls open at 6 AM and close at 8 PM. I have to be there at 5:15 AM due to the unusual nature of tomorrow's election, we expect a lot of SNAFUS. I have to get some sleep now

Cubby,

Do you think these new democrats intend to vote for Lamont or Lieberman?

I ask because in 2002 Rendell got several Republicans and indies to switch to vote for him the primary...he also mailed them forms to switch back.

I have the feeling that the newly registered voters are going to be strongly for Lamont. They wouldn't have taken the time to go to town hall and do the paperwork just to support an incumbent.

Connecticut has a stupid law that you have to wait 3 full months after you switch from Republican to Democrat , or vice versa, before you can vote in your new party's primary.

[Cubby]

Glad to see you support Joe Lieberman, Cubby.

Yes, I'm not as liberal as I appear at first 

I just got back from the polls. Turnout was low compared to November general elections, but above-average for an August primary (as expected).

There were the expected snafus where people showed up thinking they were registered when they officially weren't. Other people went to the wrong town to vote, and were annoyed that they had to drive somewhere else.

One guy was a registered Republican but said he really wanted to vote today. I felt bad when we had to turn him away, we have such strict laws here!

[Cubby]

As someone who knows a lot of the towns, its funny to see the class split in the voting. All the working class places voted Lieberman/DiSteffano (Centrist/liberal) while the upper middle class (what the rest of the country calls "rich" but we don't) places voted Lamont/Malloy  (left-wing liberal/DLC Centrist).

I never thought I'd see the day when Greenwich and the Gold Coast went for a liberal blogosphere candidate. The times they are a changing.......

Interesting stuff at the polls today. I described most of it earlier in this thread.

[Cubby]

1.  I am not the only person who thinks Lamont is ridiculously creepy.

You certainly aren't, ian.  His victory speech was, imo, one of the worst I have seen, period.

Lamont is a nebbish, plain and simple, to use terminology of the region.

I've lived here most of my life and I've never heard the word "nebbish". I hope its not one of William F. Buckley's words. That guy has caused more damage to public literature than Thomas Friedman.