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Being an Educated Voter

You often hear about the "educated voter." Who is that? What does it to take to quailfy?

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7-9-2006 Minutes

VOID Board of Directors - Meeting Minutes
Via Internet 3-way conferencing
Sunday, July 9, 2006 7:30PM - 9:00PM

ATTENDEES:
David R. Remer, President
Daniel Summars, Treasurer
Stephanie Crist, Secretary

PURPOSE: To review progress of current projects and to determine the prices to be charged for the newly acquired VOID window stickers.

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Incumbents Lieberman, McKinney lose.

Ned Lamont has won the Democratic primary election to run as the party's Senate candidate on November's ballot. With 97% of the vote counted, Lamont held a lead by less than 3.5%. My mild disappointment is not that Lamont won, but the small margin. If Connecticut were in the throes of an anti-incumbent fever, Lamont would have won over Sen. Joseph Lieberman by a landslide. On the flip side, another incumbent lost tonight, Rep. Cynthia McKinney lost her bid.

I will go on record now and say, November's race between Lamont as Democrat, and Lieberman as Democratic Independent, will go one of two ways. Either, Lamont will succeed in painting Lieberman as a divider of Connecticut and the Democratic Party, and a man who doesn't like playing by the party's rules. Or, Lieberman will succeed with a lot of help from Independent and Republican voters who see more conservative prospects from Sen. Joe than their own Republican candidate (who has little chance in this predominantly Democratic state). You can hold me to this call.

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