THE POLLS LED DOUGLAS CAMP ASTRAY.(MAIN)

Byline: FRED LEBRUN

At 9:12, the first call came in from an election district to Tom Connolly, the Rensselaer County Democrats' chief numbers cruncher sitting at the one desk at headquarters.

The call wasn't from the polling place at City Hall, which is right next door. It was from the AOH in South Troy.

``Go ahead,'' he said as he began to madly scribble numbers. Marilyn Douglas had four lines and Henry Zwack two, plus all the other county and city races, too. A page of little squares getting filled in at a furious speed. Six anxious men, several of them former Democratic chairmen, casually rushed to encircle Connolly for a peek at the numbers. The …