Finch Will Not Concede.

Mayor Bill Finch will not concede what appears to be a humiliating defeat at the hands of Joe Ganim, the former Bridgeport mayor convicted of corruption and driven from the office he moved closer to seizing tonight. Democrats who went to the polls today gave Ganim more than a 600 vote margin.

Absentee ballots have become the focus of both camps. There are about 1,400 of them. Finch would have to win those absentee ballots by a margin far exceeding what he’s achieved in any other aspect of the contest with a resurgent Ganim.

Finch and Ganim will both be on the ballot in November, though the Democratic nomination is the great prize in the long race.