Suggestion for office pool: pick a double digit, in the mid-20-percent region, for GOP turnout

Okay, so less than than 30 percent of Republican voters (actually 29.76 percent=124,754) found their way to the primary polls in 2010, when the marquee race was for U.S. Senate, in a nomination won by Linda McMahon and when Tom Foley of Greenwich won a three-way primary over Oz Griebel and then Lt. Gov. Mike Fedele. Initial reports today indicate that turnout may total in the low 20-percents. So for you office bookies, maybe that’s a way to pump up some action, if not actual interest, in today’s race between Foley and Senate Minority Leader John McKinney of Fairfield. So here are some numbers for you to work percentages before you take your service fee from the pool kitties.

Updated voter registration numbers fresh today from Secretary of the State Denise Merrill.

Democrats-705,403

Republicans-401,374

Unaffiliated (who cannot vote today)-801,407

Total active voters-1,927,115