20,000 People Register As Connecticut Dems Before Lamont/Lieberman Vote...

[CatWoman]

Revenge is a dish best served cold......

It's mighty cold in your space, Joementum :rofl:



New Voters, Unaffiliated Rush To Join Democrats

[The Straight Story]

1. "I see Dead People." - "Where?" - "At the polls, the repugs hired em"

heh :)

[Demeter]

2. Khan!!!

When men were men, and liked women. Sigh. I am a fossil and I'm only 51.

[CatWoman]

8. hey!! watch it!!

I'm one year behind you!! :hi:

[acmavm]

3. Wonder if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

[Libby2]

6. me too

[TheDebbieDee]

29. It could be a bad thing..........

Maybe these unaffiliated voters are right-leaning voters that have switched to Democrat to vote for Lieberman in the primary........

[mom cat]

4. Is this another McKinney type of republican dirty trick? Are these

really repukes crossing over to skew the Dem primary?

[danalytical]

16. Yup

That's what I think is happening. And I live here. Repugs and indys are registering as Dems because they support Joe and want to make sure he makes it through the primary. But what's 20,000 new votes compared to the 60% of already registerd Dems that are gonna vote for Ned? Is it enough? I doubt it.

[mom cat]

30. I sure hope not.

[femmedem]

20. No, they're not Republicans.

Republicans would have had to switch parties 90 days before the primary, one day before the state Dem convention, in order to vote for Lieberman on August 8.

This is entirely Unaffiliateds. Hard to say who they want to vote for--our R governor is pretty popular among the unaffiliateds--but I can at least reassure you that it isn't Republican dirty tricks.

[cool user name]

33. Gawwwwd, I hope you are correct.

I had the sneaking suspicion that this was a trick.

I want Joe to lose and I want him to lose baaaaaaaad. I want him never ever to think about entering politics again.

[insane_cratic_gal]

22. My Guess is: yes, they may be republicans

Unaffiliated voters.. independents, most independents I know tend to lean republican. You can't vote in primaries as a independent, my guess given Joe gets the full endorsement of Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity... there is potential for them to be republicans.

[elehhhhna]

25. I agree.

[eleny]

5. K&R

I'm suspicious but keeping my fingers crossed for Ned.

[bleever]

7. Link isn't taking me where you intend

(I think).

[CatWoman]

10. fixed it

:hi:

[bleever]

19. Gracias.

I recommended before your fix, because I knew that whatever this means, it's important either way.

Reminds me of the thread I saw this morning about Repug's luring people into switching their registration in CA to R after luring them in with a bogus "legalize marijuana" petition.

:hi:

[Crunchy Frog]

9. I hope most of these people are Lamont supporters.

I won't be doing any celebrating until the primary is actually over and Lamont (hopefully) has a decisive victory.

[CatWoman]

13. from the link:

The race for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate has drawn national interest, and challenger Ned Lamont has a double-digit lead over incumbent Joseph I. Lieberman, according to a poll released Thursday. Some have likened the primary to a referendum on the Iraq war, which Lieberman has supported.


Unaffiliated voters are not eligible to vote in Tuesday's primary.

The Lamont campaign says the numbers show that people are responding to the challenger's message.

"We see a lot of people who want change in Washington, who are willing to step up to the plate and be involved even though they might not have been involved before in the political process," said Liz Dupont-Diehl, a Lamont campaign spokeswoman. "We've always said that this would invigorate the party."

[insane_cratic_gal]

24. Ya but Lieberman's spokes person

laid the same claim to the new 20,000 voters.

"We expect that there's going to be a record turnout on primary day," said Marion Steinfels, a Lieberman spokeswoman. "And that's going to help Joe Lieberman. The more who come out to vote, the better he will do."

Truth is we will not know until tuesday, but I sure hope it's Lamont.

[charlie]

27. The fact that

Joe couldn't come close to his target of 4000 GOTV volunteers is encouraging. You'd expect that Republicans would've leapt to his call. So, the bulk of these new Dems might be genuine. But, as you say, we won't know until we know.

[wakeme2008]

11. I would hate to say it but these smell like repugs

tricks...

[Bucky]

34. That makes sense... if we assume Lamont won't inspire new voters

When there's a sudden upsurge in voter registration, it means somebody is turning on new voters. My hunch is that after 18 years in the Senate, Lieberman is not turning on new voters.

[Ishoutandscream2]

12. I dunno. This worries me somewhat

Hope this bodes well for Lamont.

[Nikki Stone 1]

14. 20,000 Repugs switching sides? Is this Joe's GOTV?

:tinfoilhat:

[charlie]

15. Good thing Lieberman cancelled his GOTV effort

Looks like it would've been money wasted.

I'm pensive about just who these newly minted Dems are. Republicans? Or maybe... young people? They were our best performing demographic in 2004. And a lot of them see Joe as the videogame-music-movie hating old fart who's beating the drum for wars they'll have to fight.

[madmom]

17. If these are repukes and liarmen wins than Lamont needs to run

on the independent ticket (maybe?)

[charlie]

18. Unlike Joe

Lamont has already promised to back the nominee.

[bleever]

21. I have to think that Rover does NOT want a unified, anti-war Dem party.

This is a bellwether, like the Busby-Bilbray race, that can change the whole conversation.

They had to win that one, and they need Joe to win this one.

I hope my suspicions are unfounded.

( :rofl: )

[spartan61]

23. My son is one of othe unaffliated voters who recently registered

Democrat in order to vote for Ned. I'm very proud of him.

[CatWoman]

26. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!

we are proud of him, too :hug:

[never_get_over_it]

28. There you go only 19,999 others for us to worry about

good for your son, I'm proud of him too!!!!!

[cmkramer]

31. Good for him for registering to vote and voting

More young people need to do that regardless of who they end up voting for.

Too bad he fell for lies and smears though.

I think unaffiliated voters who are registering as Democrats would favor Lamont. The only scenario I can see favoring Lieberman is one where Independent voters who have always favored him and would vote for him in the general election may be afraid now that if he loses -- especially if it's by a wide margin --- there will be much pressure on him to abandon the independent run. These voters may not feel comfortable with either of the two remaining choices so they want to make sure Lieberman remains in the mix.

[cool user name]

32. This is not good ...

Something tells me a they're all republicans.

[Bucky]

35. Because you're assuming that Lamont isn't connecting with voters?

Is it your contention that all these new voters are moles and that Lamont is having virtually zero impact on public enthusiasm? That's a bit cynical, even for a GD thread. For your suspicion to be true, that would mean that Lamont's 55%+ lead in the poll is somehow attracting registered Democrats exclusively and not drawing anyone new at all into the party. I think Lamont is a little more inspiring than that. I'm certain that Republicans aren't quite that well organized that they can run an entirely stealth groundswell campaign.

[Roy]

36. If there is such a ground swell...

of people putting themselves into position to vote for Joe L, then please explain why Joe's campaign don't recognize this and expand their GOTV efforts instead of virtually conceding the primary.

My opinion is they have identified these folks and know that it spells bad news for them.
Hence the increased focus on the Independent run.

[WhollyHeretic]

37. I am one of them

I've always been a registered independent but switched my registration to democrat to vote against