Campaign Polling May Have Mislead Lamonts on Support for Tolls.

Tolls—how many and on whom—have vexed Governor Ned Lamont since he abandoned his campaign pledge to impose them on trucks only Last February. You can see more details here in this article. An email from Ann Huntress Lamont, the governor’s spouse, suggests the Lamonts misread polls or paid for an outlier in the wealthy Democrats’ self-funded 2018 campaign.

Poll numbers shared in a message that Emily Huntress Lamont, one of the wealthy Greenwich Democrats’ daughters, provided at the request of her mother includes odd results. The poll numbers from the campaign, according to the message, show total support for electronic tolls at 68% in the general election, 41% of those surveyed are identified as strong supporters of tolls. That leads to the odd result of 27% as somewhat supportive of tolls. The result suggests a passion for tolls that has not revealed itself any place else. The tolls numbers didn’t make sense to Mrs. Lamont, who loves data.

Mrs. Lamont shared the poll numbers last summer with Lamont chief of staff Ryan Drajewicz and spokesman and former NBC Connecticut reporter Max Reiss. Drajewicz has been eager to elbow his way onto the center stage of the tolls debate as Ned Lamont’s proposals have continued to change.

Senate and House Democrats May want to see some of the data at their Tuesday caucuses.