CT-GOV: Who wins the Democratic Primary?

[JMT]

Lamont wins, and it won't be all too close

[wesmoorenerd]

Safe Lamont

[ctrepublican512]

65/35 Lamont

[choclatechip45]

Lamont.

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

Joey G's got this!

(not actually, but Lamont is going to get destroyed in the general and Ganim is legitimately the best choice.)

[Politician]

Lamont wins a landslide.

[wesmoorenerd]

Joey G's got this!

(not actually, but Lamont is going to get destroyed in the general and Ganim is legitimately the best choice.)

How exactly is a felon a better choice than a respectable businessman?

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

Joey G's got this!

(not actually, but Lamont is going to get destroyed in the general and Ganim is legitimately the best choice.)

How exactly is a felon a better choice than a respectable businessman?

Someone who runs hard and well >>> a dilettante self funder with a repeated record of failure. I’ve never heard anyone with knowledge of campaign operations Lamont has run speak highly of them. Ganim has a good platform, is playing to win, and knows where Democratic votes are coming from this cycle (hint: not the Fairfield moderates). According to all sources his operation to get on the ballot was disciplined and gutsy. IDGAF if he’s a felon, at least he doesn’t live with his head in the clouds. Lamont is going o be nominated and will lose, barring significant Democratic investment that would be much better spent elsewhere.

[warandwar]

Joey G's got this!

(not actually, but Lamont is going to get destroyed in the general and Ganim is legitimately the best choice.)

How exactly is a felon a better choice than a respectable businessman?

Someone who runs hard and well >>> a dilettante self funder with a repeated record of failure. I’ve never heard anyone with knowledge of campaign operations Lamont has run speak highly of them. Ganim has a good platform, is playing to win, and knows where Democratic votes are coming from this cycle (hint: not the Fairfield moderates). According to all sources his operation to get on the ballot was disciplined and gutsy. IDGAF if he’s a felon, at least he doesn’t live with his head in the clouds. Lamont is going o be nominated and will lose, barring significant Democratic investment that would be much better spent elsewhere.

This is all true.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Lamont is going to get his second wind.

[The Other Castro]

Lamont's going to win in a big landslide, and is favored for the general election (assuming a Boughton, Herbst, or Stefanowksi nomination)

[MT Treasurer]

The next governor of CT, Ned Lamont.

[Zaybay]

The next governor of CT, Ned Lamont.

[wesmoorenerd]

Joey G's got this!

(not actually, but Lamont is going to get destroyed in the general and Ganim is legitimately the best choice.)

How exactly is a felon a better choice than a respectable businessman?

Someone who runs hard and well >>> a dilettante self funder with a repeated record of failure. I’ve never heard anyone with knowledge of campaign operations Lamont has run speak highly of them. Ganim has a good platform, is playing to win, and knows where Democratic votes are coming from this cycle (hint: not the Fairfield moderates). According to all sources his operation to get on the ballot was disciplined and gutsy. IDGAF if he’s a felon, at least he doesn’t live with his head in the clouds. Lamont is going o be nominated and will lose, barring significant Democratic investment that would be much better spent elsewhere.

This is all true.

It's really not. Joe Ganim would be a good candidate but the dude literally went to prison for the better part of a decade. I know you may not care if he's a felon but with all due respect the voters of Connecticut assuredly do.

[warandwar]

Joey G's got this!

(not actually, but Lamont is going to get destroyed in the general and Ganim is legitimately the best choice.)

How exactly is a felon a better choice than a respectable businessman?

Someone who runs hard and well >>> a dilettante self funder with a repeated record of failure. I’ve never heard anyone with knowledge of campaign operations Lamont has run speak highly of them. Ganim has a good platform, is playing to win, and knows where Democratic votes are coming from this cycle (hint: not the Fairfield moderates). According to all sources his operation to get on the ballot was disciplined and gutsy. IDGAF if he’s a felon, at least he doesn’t live with his head in the clouds. Lamont is going o be nominated and will lose, barring significant Democratic investment that would be much better spent elsewhere.

This is all true.

It's really not. Joe Ganim would be a good candidate but the dude literally went to prison for the better part of a decade. I know you may not care if he's a felon but with all due respect the voters of Connecticut assuredly do.

What in there do you disagree With tho? Anyways, it's not like he isn't forthright with being a felon - he mentions it all the time (and ofc there's plenty of people, me included, that do care about it). I don't particularly like him (cuz his pd left a kid to die in the street, and then he treated all protests as "potential riots") but I've seen him and his skill at campaigning (which is what Bernie hack was writing about) is undeniable. I moved from CT 2 months ago but had I not, I'd probably leave a blank vote for gov. (Tbh I believe that UNITE HERE should run the state rather than any candidate...).

I'm not gonna pretend to know the ins and outs of campaign working like SBH does, but I have spent 4 years living in CT and i know a thing or two about the dynamics of new haven and statewide politics (in the expansive, socialistic sense of the term) so if you have any questions/arguments, I'm certainly capable of giving it a shot!

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

Yeah I'm not suggesting that his criminal record isn't a factor (even though I personally don't care) it definitely is. But 1) I just fundamentally distrust self funders to run the kind of tight campaign that the nominee is going to have to run, and 2) I suspect anyone for whom Ganim's criminal record would be a deciding factor is lean R anyway even with Lamont as the nominee. If the Dems are going to survive this year it's going to be with sky high urban turnout, not by persuading the Nice Suburban Moderates that have budgets and taxes as their #1 issue.

Also yeah @warandwar - pretty sure spending the first 18 years of my life with the Connecticut Dems is what made me into the (essentially) state-syndicalist I am today lol.

[ctrepublican512]

I've come to notice that a lot of party elders aren't too quick to dismiss Ganim, and don't want to be naive and underestimate him. The man beat an incumbent Dem in his mayoral election post-incarceration. He's pretty moderate anyways. He'll do well in the cities, the Valley, and maybe Eastern part of the state

[choclatechip45]

I've come to notice that a lot of party elders aren't too quick to dismiss Ganim, and don't want to be naive and underestimate him. The man beat an incumbent Dem in his mayoral election post-incarceration. He's pretty moderate anyways. He'll do well in the cities, the Valley, and maybe Eastern part of the state

I’ve seen more Joe Markley and Mark Boughton signs in Stamford than Joe Ganim signs.