CT-Sen: The Vote Will Come In Late

by DemFromCT

From First Read:

Election officials in Connecticut can begin tallying precinct results from around the state as soon as polls close at 8:00 pm.  According to a Dan Tapper, spokesperson for Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz, the first cities to submit their results tend to be smaller towns such as Litchfield and Somers, which Bush won in 2004, and Kent, which supported Kerry.  Toward the end of the night, a little after 10:00 pm, Tapper says, results from the state's largest cities like Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven, Waterbury and Stamford should begin to trickle in -- all towns that overwhelmingly voted for Kerry in 2004.  While it's hard to predict what time they'll have the official results, Tapper says he hopes to have an answer just before midnight.  Until then, they'll be updating results on their website.

I posted at Daily Kos today my closing thoughts, which First Read agrees with.

Opposition to Lieberman now seems based partly on his support for Bush on the war; partly on his support for Republicans on other issues; partly on his approach and tone; partly on anti-incumbent sentiment; and perhaps also on neglect for his home state.  Press coverage of Lieberman on the stump over the last several weeks has been peppered with remarks from residents that they'd never seen him before that day, or hadn't seen him in years.

We'll have to wait until MN to see how things went.

Comments

[demtom]

Oh, dear god. I'd told myself as I arrived at work today that at least it would all be over in 12 hours. You're telling me I'll have to keep checking all night? How will I be able to enjoy the Daily Show? (To say nothing of Yanks/White Sox)

Whatever happened to those ten-minutes-after-closing exit polls? They made life alot simpler.

[DemFromCT]

No exit polls.

[Mimikatz]

Two big advantages to living on the West Coast: You get to watch West Coast baseball games in their entirety and it's 5:00pm when the polls close in the East, and only 9:00pm when the results come in.

[demtom]

Absolutely right, Mimikatz. When I made a trip to LA in the late 80s, the biggest surprise was watching the late news and seeing no third-inning baseball scores.

[DemFromCT]

ah, shaddup, it's about the war.

link

[freepatriot]

the biggest advantage to living on the west coast is LIVING ON THE WEST COAST

what is this "snoe shovel" contraption that I've heard so much about ???

(heh)

[Sara]

Snoe Shovels -- they come in various sizes, and with different shaped handles, each shape a realization of a theory about the origin of back pain. Right now they are all in storage, along with the ice melt left over from last season.

The advantage of living in the Upper Mid West is profound. We don't have earthquakes. It is unlikely part of the land will disappear assuming sea rise and global warming. We have a more than adequate supply of water, thus we water everything. No bricks in the Toilet, no flow restrictors on the shower, no TV reminds not to take baths in a full tub of water. If we put up enough wind generators, and master power generation from ag waste, and add that to Ethanol from various sources, we can potentially be a net exporter of power.

Living here requires four times as many clothes as the Left or Gulf Coasts. Summers can be in the 100's, winters can crash to -20 or less. You need a different sort of outdoor wear when it is -20 than you require at +20. Goretex and Thinsulate are the greatest inventions of the late 20th century.

Because the weather changes every few minutes, we have a massive culture (Linguistic and otherwise) about living in and with nature. People who move here take a few years to acculturate, but once that process is complete, they rarely leave.

[DemFromCT]

The advantage of living in CT is that the rest of the year, it's CT. But fall is glorious.

Here's an interesting piece by MP on primary polls. Instructive, not predictive.

[demtom]

So, if you peruse other blogs, you'll find everyone screaming frantically about the Lieberman web site crash/accusations of hacking against Lamont. My guess is the crash happened because the Lieberman camp didn't know how to insure against heavy traffic, or, at worst, some anonymous jerk did the hacking -- but Joe's camp has, with no foundation, accused the Lamont campaign, and apparently the toadies of cable news are repeating this as if it's gospel (aided by their likely utter ignorance of tech issues). A few thoughts about this:

1) This may be a last-ditch effort by Lieberman to get people to support an indie bid ("I mighty have won if it weren't for those dastardly hackers")

2) People who are watching TV all day are obsessed with/fearful over this affecting the outcome, but how much can it matter to voting -- even assuming 100% of watchers suddenly decide Ned is evil? Many people have voted already, and those that haven't aren't at home watching TV; they're at work. Most of them will stop to vote on the way home, not drop in to watch a little TV first.

3) This whole incident -- the way they Lieberman camp has played it, and, in fact, much of what they've done in the past few weeks -- gives me yet another reason to hope Joe loses: he's campaigning like Rove. I know people like to denigrate recent Dem campaigns as compared to the GOP's, but even our recent successful ones -- Clinton's presidential effors, the winning Congressional campaigns of '98 and '02 -- fought hard but fought fair. They didn't try to get the press to focus on irrelevant (and frequently concocted) minutia; that's Rove's style. And, in his hour of need, Lieberman has shown himself to be at home with that same full-of-it process.

[DemFromCT]

demtom, bless you. We're (my wife and I) not auto-Nedheads. We thought long and hard about who to vote for and why. But i can't begin to tell you how many ways, small and large, joe has ticked us off.

there's a pattern, as I tried to explain with my dKos posts, but out-of-staters only want to foucs on angry leftists and the war.

[bboop]

As I was preparing to go to Town Hall,(I'm Absentee Ballot Moderator)I had an automated call from Joe Lieberman - Joe speaking where he promises me that I can always count on him to vote his conscience - to be sure that the right thing gets done regardless of what the political consequenses will be. Whoa, Joe!! Since I voted for Joe three (3) times to vote for my interests and that of the rest of his constituency, Joe's promises read like his Independent campaign title, 'Connecticut for Lieberman'......it's all about Joe! It was always about Joe and what Joe feels is good for Connecticut, not what the voters may want or even need. He's speaking now from the Goodwin hotel in Hartford now. He lost. He's going to run as an Indie in the November election....he has the 7500 votes ...he's running down Ned's campaign as partisan and polarizing! All the Democratic bigwigs have left the hotel, they are nowhere to be seen...its just supporters and media. Dodd and the rest of the boys seem to have deserted Joe. Haven't seen the coverage of Lamont's win yet. This is coming via local Channel 3 TV.