CT Senate Race Fuels High Voter Turnout

According to Courant.com State officials are projecting a strong turnout and reported a busy morning at the polls, which opened at 6 a.m. today. Turnout in Danbury, Wilton, New Britain and Vernon was outpacing that from two years ago, said Dan Tapper, spokesman in the secretary of the state's office. A suspected reason for the large turnout is the race between Sen. Joe Lieberman and anti-war challenger Ned amont. Lamont's primary victory was widely seen as a referendum on Iraq -- and a sharp rebuke of Lieberman's pro-war views. Two voters spoken to by the Courant were quoted this way: ...60-year-old Ron Bowman, a Democrat from Windsor, Conn., had on his mind when he went out to vote first thing Tuesday. "It was a chance for a change," he said, after casting his ballot for Democratic senatorial candidate Ned Lamont over incumbent Sen. Joe Lieberman, running as an independent. Another voter who echoed Bowman's sentiment, Shirley Swanson of Windsor, said that she, too, voted for Lamont. "He's not Lieberman. Joe isn't listening to us," she said. Hopefully this attitude will prevail throughout Connecticut since most polls are showing the Democrats could very well take over control of the Senate as well as Congress albeit by a very slim majority. The latest numbers I have seen are the Democrats taking the Senate 51-49. I just hope and pray that the 51st seat belongs to Lamont and NOT LIEbermann. Just the thought of this backstabbing turncoat weilding that much power that the Dems have to kiss up to him is unbearable. If the margin of victory is so close, then let's hope the seat count is Democrats 52 Republicans 48.