New Voters, Unaffiliated Rush To Join Democrats

[cynatnite]

As Tuesday's primary draws near, town halls across the state are being inundated by people who want to register with the Democratic Party, according to the secretary of the state and town registrars.

From May through Friday, 11,496 unaffiliated voters became registered Democrats. From May through the end of July, 10,344 new voters became registered Democrats, said Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz. "If you think about those Democrats, those are people who are obviously motivated to participate. That could have an impact on not only turnout, but election results," Bysiewicz said.

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.

"Every vote counts," said Douglas Schwarz, director of the Quinnipiac University poll that put Lamont ahead of Lieberman 54 to 41 percent among likely Democratic voters.

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-newdems0805.artaug05,0,6036325.story?coll=hc-headlines-local

I don't know if this is good for Lamont or not. I hope so.

[Renew Deal]

1. Motivated voters are more likely to be motivated for something.

And I doubt Joe is it. Are they so motivated to keep him around? I doubt it. www.mydd.com talk about this.

[Speck Tater]

2. Might be good, might be bad.

Let's just hope all those new "Democrats" are not Republicna sleepers signing up to pack the ballot box for Old Joe.

[DLnyc]

4. Oops. Great minds think alike,

I guess.

(posted similar thought below)

[DLnyc]

3. Hmmm. Could be a lot of republican types who hope to tilt the primary to

their buddy, joe.

Makes me more determined to try to help get out the definite Lamont voters the next few days.

Anyone want to sign up? here's the link to the main page (choose "get involved"):
http://www.nedlamont.com/blog

[felman87]

5. Lieberman was an ok guy

He just had a few missteps. But I guess when you're as close to the edge as he is a few steps could mean political death. Lamont was awesome ont he Colbert report though. I'd vote for him. Good luck to him.

[Peace Patriot]

6. People did the same thing in 2004. They were flocking to the Democratic

Party. The grass roots GOTV campaign blew the Bushites away in new voter registration in 2004, nearly 60/40. And those people were registering Democratic to vote for Bush, according to Diebold and ES&S.*

Same here. Stay alert. I understand they don't have electronic voting in Connecticut**, but I don't know if they have central electronic tabulators (just as bad--ALSO run on TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming owned and controlled by Bushite corporations), or have cooked up some new way to fiddle the numbers, by piling on phony registrations. Really, our election system is so corrupt and non-transparent--and the warmongers have so far worked so many angles on election fraud--nothing would surprise me. And these are big stakes. This is a referendum on Bush and the war. The referendum on Republican Party corruption--CA-50 Bilbray/Busby--was filthy with secrecy and lack of accountability, as BradBlog, Landshark and others have been showing. Expect more of the same.

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*(However, the large majority of new voters actually voted for Kerry, as did the large majority of independent voters, and the large majority of Nader voters. If you figure Bush '00 and Gore '00 voters to be wash--who else is there? Karl Rove's "invisible" GOTV campaign? Right. "Invisible" is the word. There is no evidence of any significant success of that. None.)

**(I find it odd that Connecticut doesn't have e-voting, when one of the chief architects of the e-voting scam was CT's other Senator, Christopher Dodd. Well, if it has the central tabulators, then it won't be odd. So the guy foists this crap on the rest of us, and CT doesn't buy it? Somebody explain this to me. Any CT-ers here?)