New Voters, Unaffiliated Rush To Join Democrats (in CT)

[zippy890]

Hartford Courant 8/5/06

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.

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"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

This adds up to 20,000 new registered democrats since May in CT.

I'm just wondering if they're all democrats. I can't help the cynicism, having been through so many f***d up elections.

:tinfoilhat:

CT Duers, help me out here! tell me these new democrats are really motivated to vote democratic- for Lamont.

[cyclezealot]

1. They can't be REpugs. rushing to help Liebermann.

Hope this is not the case. Who are the unaffiliated? Formerly non partisan? Could be good or bad?

[zippy890]

2. I assume unaffiliated means registered Independents

I'm really hoping they are registering democratic because they are sick of lieberman.

we could REALLY use a victory here, and i'm just getting nervous about shenanigans on voting day.

[maddezmom]

3. duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2437355