The Associated Press is withdrawing its call of Democrat Dan Malloy as the winner of Connecticut’s race for governor.
The Associated Press based its call on statements by the Connecticut Secretary of State. Susan Bysiewicz that Malloy had defeated Republican Tom Foley by 3,103 votes and that there would be no statewide recount, if her preliminary totals held.
AP’s vote count now shows Foley with a lead of 8,424 votes over Malloy, with all but 1.5 percent of the precincts counted. Bysiewicz has not released any vote results to support her statements earlier Wednesday.
UPDATE: Jeez. Both Malloy and Foley are declaring victory and announcing transition teams.
LATER UPDATE: Taniel, in the comments here and over at his own blog points to some pretty seriously sloppy number-counting by the Associated Press, amounting to a significant under-reporting of Malloy’s vote in the city of New Haven. I’ll note here that as someone who has more than a few liveblogs under my belt, I can think of several instances where the AP has made significant errors in their tabulation of results. (For instance, they made big errors in their OH-15 and SC-01 results reporting last cycle.) While an invaluable resource, they’ve been known to make mistakes!
I was surprised that they called it then with Foley ahead in early returns, and they rescinded that call a few hours later. This is now tied with GA-02 for most “un-calls” although that was worse because they called it for the wrong guy the first two times.
This is what some of us get for being happy about CT…
Jim Himes still trails there. 84% of the vote is counted. Dan Debicella has already conceded, but, if the race is certified, and he is the winner, does it matter that he conceded?
This and Maffei would be a real kick in the balls.
The AP claims New Haven is all in, and Malloy leads 7000 votes to 1500 votes. But the New Haven Independent has Malloy leading by 16000 votes in the city of New Haven, however: http://www.newhavenindependent…
But I’m afraid I’m mixing up “county” and “town”, perhaps?
I hope they reconsider this next year.
…as the Dems’ version of Katherine Harris.
Could be awhile.
It isn’t often that the rest of the country gets to make fun of Connecticut. It’s usually Florida or Louisiana.
As the outgoing governor, she has to help the governor elect with their transition. With both candidates already beginning their transition, this could get awkward for her. It could also be awkward for them. I mean, what if they happen to be moving furniture into the bedroom at the same time?
a huge clusterfuck.
Hopefully the AP is wrong and Malloy will be Connecticut’s next governor. But talk about starting out on the wrong foot.
I don’t really trust this SoS from Connecticut. She was the one that said anyone wearing anything with WWE logo on it would be turned away from the polls. That to me seems unconstitutional. I wouldn’t put it past her to fudge the numbers here.
The Hartford Courant obtained vote totals for New Haven from Secy. Bysiewicz’s office. Gov.-elect Malloy will net 18,600 votes there, which will be sufficient to…well, I already used the title. Bysiewicz is expected to make a formal announcement at noon.
http://www.courant.com/news/po…
http://www.courant.com/news/po…
Sounds fairly insurmountable.
and the CT-04 race should be un-called, actually.
n/t
Who would want to get a phone call from Alan Keyes, even if it was to concede?