The winners in tomorrow's primary elections will be voters from both political parties. It will be they who make the final decision on which candidates will be on the November ballot, not an exclusive cabal of wealthy bankers and corporate CEOs. Not some boss of a creaky political machine. Not a convened mob of hand-picked mannequins speaking on cue from the party's old guard.
Primary elections turn on turnout.
But unlike years when turnout meant the number party loyalists who dutifully trekked to the polls with their marching orders, tomorrow's turnout will benefit the challengers of the favored. They'll also boost the chances of one of their own, Vince D'Anna, for president of New Castle County Council. But party faithful are in for a primary day ambush. Those voters will nominate William Swain Lee over Burris, Jim Baker over Sills, and Chris Coons over D'Anna. It doesn't matter with which political party NSFs are affiliated.