What Phil Giordano and Ned Lamont have in common
By the stroke of luck or something more than just that, Connecticut Senate challenger Ned Lamont finished with exactly the same as Lieberman's Republican challenger in 2000. Both 2006 Democratic Senate candidate Ned Lamont and 2000 Republican Senate candidate Phil Giordano had a total of 448,077 votes. Except this time Lieberman finished with more than 250,000 votes less than the amount he received in 2000.
Turnout in Connecticut was lower in 2006 than in 2000. This year, 1,131,692 people voted in the Senate race. In 2000, 1,311,261 contributed to the results in the Senate race. Turnout in 2006 was still very high, especially considering that it was a non-presidential year.
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