Report from West Hartford CT

[kstewart33]

TheC chimes in with a report from West Hartford:


I am in West Hartford, and let me tell you folks - West Hartford is for Ned! I was working at one polling location and it was easily 50+ votes for Ned and maybe 3 for Joe during the time I was there. And people were pumped up. They would give me thumbs up or come talk to me for a while. People are motivated.

As for that vaunted Lieberman army, I haven't seen them yet. There were only Lamont workers at the polls I visited including one in an African-American neighborhood in Hartford. While at the West Hartford campaign offfice, I overheard telephone conversations where the staff member was asking if Lieberman people were out at other polls and, to their surprise, there were none. Same report I got from a Malloy volunteer who supported Lamont from another poll where he had been. Granted, this is all annecdotal, but its the best we can do right now. West Hartford is only one town, but it is fairly decent sized and it votes. They expect 50% turnout today, which is huge in a primary. I had heard there were already 1000 absentee ballots turned in from West Hartford alone. There is still a lot of day left, but I feel really good so far. People are out in force and they want change. Keep up the hard work fellow Nutmeggers! We can win this one today! Share your stories below!

Link: http://connecticutblog.blogspot.com/

[MrCoffee]

1. K'N'F'N'R!!! Thanks for the update!

[hogwyld]

2. Great News!!

Thanks for the motivational update!! K'n R

[jonnyblitz]

3. kick

:kick:

[cal04]

4. My DD:At the polling place

I spent 8am-noon this morning at a polling place in eastern Connecticut, where turnout was steady through the morning. It felt more like general election level turnout than a primary. My job: hand Ned Lamont palm cards to voters approaching the polling place.

"Why are you doing this today?" asked one voter, "everybody's already decided!" A half hour later, another voter glanced at the card and answered, "I ain't makin' up my mind 'til I get into the poll." Another voter at first declined to look at a card, remarking, "I'll do my own thinking." I pointed to the bold text and replied, "this is to let people know what Lamont is about, then you can make up your mind what you think of it." The bold rext on the card reads:

Voted for a Democratic Senator who will finally stand up to Bush!

One man declined my card on the grounds that he's a Republican, but on the way back, he remarked to me, "I was a Democrat for 25 years, and I think Joe's got a problem today."

There were no Joe Lieberman signs or volunteers at this polling place, or at another one I passed on the way. In fact, I only saw one Lieberman sign driving in this morning, randomly placed by the side of the road. Luis, a poll worker who came out for some fresh air, said "lots of Democrats today!" - the polling place had separate doors for the Republican and Democratic primaries, and I could see fewer than 1 out of 10 voters were going in the Republican door. Luis said he's seen a lot of new voters and young voters today. "They want change."

http://www.mydd.com/

[lyonn]

14. Sounds good so far! Thanks

[AzDar]

5. Go Ned!!! n/t

[robinlynne]

6. I had a deja vu reading this post. I remembered the 2004 election.

I was in nevada, working with moveon for GOTV. We (dems) were everywhere in every neighborhood. People cheered. Republicans were nowhere. We knew Kerry had won....

(do not mean to bring bad memories to a good post, and I am cheering for Ned, but i just remember that feeling of we won in 2004, the same as when watching the supreme court in 2000, i remember the exact moment when gore's lawyer socked it to them and I knew we had won...)

[kstewart33]

7. Know how you feel.

But let's keep heads-up and see what happens.

[rusty_parts2001]

8. Ugh--did you have to bring that up!

Talk about depression.........

[robinlynne]

13. sorry. I almost held it in. I guess the good part is knowing that we have

been winning all along.
And one more positive note: I think the repugs think that they have a better chance when the "centrist dem' loses the primary. They are, of course, wrong, but...

[calico1]

11. Just keep in mind that this is just one State and

one with no Diebold.

[AndyA]

9. Go Connecticut voters! Vote for Ned Lamont - we need men like him now!

Remember, you're not voting just for Connecticut, but for the rest of the United States as well. WE NEED NED LAMONT!!

[adarling]

10. well this is good news, but how long are the polls open?

he could get a get some more people later in the day...i hope not but it tends to happen when people get off work.

[matcom]

12. GREAT UPDATE!!

thank you!! keep updates coming!!

[Swamp Rat]

15. Yaay! DOWN WITH LIEBERMAN!!!!!!!

[speedoo]

16. Thanks!!

K&R!!!

[Ganja Ninja]

17. I hope Joe loses big and runs as an independent that draws ...

votes from the republican candidate.

[gristy]

18. This makes no sense.

Lamont workers at the polls? What, there are all these guys in Lamont T-shirts helping me vote? Aren't there still laws that forbid campaigning withing some distance of a polling site? How does this guy know how people are voting at the polling locations? What is he talking about? I am so confused...