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To: LindyBill who wrote (175809)	8/8/2006 9:10:29 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793717

Lieberman lost his own precinct.

To: LindyBill who wrote (175809)	8/8/2006 9:41:18 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 793717

It's tightening up. CT SEN: Lamont 52.13% \| Lieberman 47.87% \| 50.27% in hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com The smaller towns report first, now the cities are reporting in. The CW has been white collar goes for Lamont, blue collar goes for Joe, we'll see...

To: LindyBill who wrote (175809)	8/8/2006 9:43:47 PM
From: dvdw©	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793717

Big deal, think about this....using 1992 data the last time an Independent was considered on National ticket. According to one network reporting tonight the current voter registration in CT is showing some 40 odd % as independent. Going back to 1992 when Perot was considered as a true alternative to the parties, Perot was able to gain only a 16.5 % share of the presidential electorate....not much of a statement about the independence of those CT voters is it? CT is a state of 3.6 million odd folks, its voting age population about 2.8 million voters old enough to vote. From the early returns your reporting, it looks like the polling is running below the run rate of the 92 election by a substantial margin. 17% reporting yet only 8% of 1992 vote for dem presidential candidate. The Only constant in American politics is the enlightened self interest of the more than 51% who refuse to participate, because they know, both parties reflect odd lots of special interests. The parties are not representative of the population, they are representative of pockets of largess, all the rest of us can hope for is that their greed, is by one miracle or another, reigned in.