Equally big story in Conn as the Lamont win, is the registration

[durrrty libby]

of boatloads of new Democrats

I want to know more about this. Who is responsible and are they working nationally on this? I truly believe a key to winning upcoming elections, including 08, will be massive registrations of new dems.

Is this a goal of Howard Dean’s strategy and has he given any updates?


It should be something we talk about, email about, and help accomplish on a continuous

basis. What say ye?


:dem:

[Nite Owl]

1. I heard that many of the new

democratic registrations were repukes switching for the primary to vote for nomoJoe. Someone from CT would know more about that though.

[calico1]

5. Republicans had until May 8th to

switch to Democrats. At that time Lieberman was up in the polls and not worried. Neither were his followers. The high number of new voters and non-affiliated to Democratic was due to the intense interest in this race and the desire to participate.

[Renew Deal]

7. Some exit poll said that 20% of voters were first time primary voters

That sounds good.

[Nite Owl]

8. That's certainly

good news!

[Exultant Democracy]

2. Yes it is very big news

even if as some people say many were past republicans it still turns out to be good news because Ned's win makes it obvious that many more were anti-war and anti-Bush voters. I think that the people who are worried about too much national attention (ergo cash) going to this "safe" race are forgetting that a rising tide lifts all boats.

We are about to see a windfall across the nation in democratic fund raising.

[calimary]

3. I think that's part of it. Hey, look, we had a DNC representative

canvasing our neighborhood, which is predominantly Dem, and he described it as "part of the 50-state strategy." It's ABOUT DAMNED TIME. And it's not as though California needs a whole lot of conversion and soul-saving (except at arnold's house, maybe), but they're working HERE, too. Taking NOTHING for granted, which is as it should be.

And all we need is even just ONE win like this one, with Ned Lamont, that gets EVERYONE talking, and we're almost there.

And, again, it is INCREDIBLY blessed good fortune that Lamont is a win, and such splashy news all over everywhere. Believe me, if he'd lost to Lieberman last night, along with the fishy loss that Cynthia McKinney suffered, THAT would be all over everywhere with bells and gongs and trumpets blaring about how the anti-war crowd is a bunch of losers and it's THEY who are the poisonous ones you need to stay away from and keep on hard "ignore" if you hope to win elections. Now, with all the noise generated about Ned Lamont, McKinney's defeat won't even be covered by a lot of outlets. The pack mentality will all go with the herd - to parsing the Lamont victory. If it had gone the other way, the loser stench would be applied all over us with crazy glue. Ain't gonna play that way, though.

[durrrty libby]

6. Imagine if every active

dem took a newbie under-wing? Wow, what we could accomplish!

The round table on Dobbs just mentioned there were 28,000

new dems who voted in Conn.

That is impressive to me for a summer primary

[tech3149]

4. Not sure of party affiliation but

the way I saw it was 14K new registrations and 14K change of registered affiliation. Judging by the candidates available, I'd guess that 90% of the new registrants were for the Democratic Party. For the same reason, I'd expect that affiliation change was driven by the same thinking. It would be impossible to say how many changed over to influence the opposition party candidate or wanted to support a party candidate.