After canvassing for the Lamont campaign yesterday I am feeling very positive about the outcome of this race. Me and my canvassing partner spoke to between 50-75 undecided unaffiliated/democratic voters and only one individual was leaning towards Joe Lieberman. For about 90% of the poeple I spoke to the war was by far the most important issue and they all visibily demostrated that they were leaning Lamont in thier (pro Lamont/anti Lieberman comments). This was due to the fact that they were sick Joe Lieberman staying the course in Iraq and continuting to ignore the needs of the people of Connecticut.
On Tuesday, Connecticut voters will have the opportunity to repeat history again like they did once durring the primary, but in a way that nobody in American political history has really ever seen in my life-time. Connecticutians want to change the course of this country and right at home the massive pro-Lamont wave will shock the citizens who live in my state.
In about less than 65 hours, the state of Connecticut has the potential to unseat three incumbent republicans in nationalized congressional races and one defacto incumbent republican in a very important senate race. Currently, Joe Courtney, Chris Murphy, and Diane Farell, look poised to win and all could win big because of the hotistile gop. political climate in-state.
Furthermore, the democratic base as well as the pro-dem (vote for change) unaffiliated-republican base is very ready to shut up the critics on Tuesday!!For starters, the weather is going to be in the high 50's-low 60's, with a slight chance of light showers later in the day. PERFECT WEATHER FOR VOTING. I NEED THE ENTHUSAIAM OF A DEAN SCREAM FOR THIS COMMENT!!
At this moment, both the internal pollings from the Lamont and Lieberman has this race at that statistically cirtical margin-of-error. The numbers every second-minute-hour are getting better for the Lamont campaign.
In my opinion, the unaffiliated voters will decide who wins this race on Tuesday. On the contrary, to what poorly conducted opinion polls are saying about how unaffiliated voters are going to vote for in this race. The numbers are showing that becasue of the war they are going to easily erase that 15% margin being shown by this group in polls. (As a side note the largest bloc of unaffiliated voters are those who are young (under-35)with cellphones that aren't homeowners.
There is no doubt in my mind that the percentage of democratic turnout in Connecticut will not only be the highest in the country, but top 65%. (Also, there is a good chance that it supasses the 70% mark). On the hand, republican turnout no doubt will be less than 50%. ( it could be stuck or below the 40's percentage-wise.
My final words are that if Alan Schlesinger is Ross Perot than Ned Lamont is Bill Clinton. At the same time if pro-democratic (Lamont) turnout is as high as it will be than the Schlesinger factor (major Gop candidate with the first line on the ballot) will have less impact on this race. Finally, I believe if the people of Connecticut show up to the polls in record numbers as I belive they will, Ned Lamont will be the next senator from Connecticut.