It appears that Lieberman is going to drink some real lemonade tonight, according to
Chris Bowers
just talked with Eddie, and he told me that yes, turnout was very high in some places and pretty low in other places. However, he told me, there was a consistent pattern where it was very high in Lamont wards and very low in Lieberman wards. This is not surprising. We have poll watchers all over the place, and canvassers to back them up in those same wards. Lieberman, by contrast, has no one at the polls, has cancelled the rest of his public appearances today, and has invited his supporters not to volunteer, but instead to attend a party at 5pm, during peak voting. Things seem to be going well today for Ned Lamont, and Joe Lieberman is on the brink of a defeat--possibly a defeat that would surpass expectations, thereby finishing Lieberman off
I don't want to get my hopes too high. Please recommend this diary, I will try to find more tidbits and update the situation minute by minute.
10 cups of lemonade for Lieberman!!
Home to the UCONN Huskies, Mansfield is among CT's most liberal towns. It regularly gives 30%+ margins to Dem candidates.
It is a place where anti-war sentiments run high -- even when the nation is not at war. The kind of place, in short, where Lamont ought to do quite well.
But will voters from a college town turnout in the dead of August, with many students and professors away?
Apparently yes, says Mansfield's Democratic Registrar Andrea Epling.
"This is unbelievable," said Epling about about 4 o'clock. With some wonderment in her voice, Epling said she and others in the Town Hall were digging through old primary results to find a comparison. She said the closest thing they could find was the '92 Dem PRESIDENTIAL contest when Jerry Brown upended Bill Clinton and 173K CT residents voted.
Epling reported that as of just after 1 p.m., Mansfield's three precincts were reporting turnout of 25.5%, 30% and 33%. And, she added, voter turnout had picked up since then.
Asked if turnout would thus crest the 50% mark, she replied, "Oh yes, it will probably get closer to 80%."
Look for an update in this space soon.