Tuesday, November 7

CNN finds two Lamont Voters in Connecticut

By all accounts Senator Lieberman will retain his Senate seat, being elected as an Independent over millionaire Democrat Ned Lamont. But somehow CNN managed to find not one, but two people who declared that they voted for 'Ned' today:

Unsurprisingly, the chairmen of the Democratic and Republican parties talked optimistically as voters went to the polls Tuesday. "I believe we're going to defy the experts and maintain our majority in the House and the Senate," GOP Chairman Ken Mehlman said on CBS's "The Early Show."

Countered Howard Dean, his Democratic opposite number: "If you want change, we can give you change." That's just what 60-year-old Ron Bowman, a Democrat from Windsor, Connecticut, 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. - CNN

I just wonder how many voters the reporter had to interview in Windsor, Connecticut to find these two? At least now Connecticut Democrat voters are giving 'Joe' a reason not to listen to them. They better hope that they don't need to count on his seat to take over the Senate.

1 comment:

Fred Fry said...

Gee. Democrat Lamont loses to the guy he beat in the Democrat Primary. Election night wasn't a total disaster after all.