LaMont's got the win here I think, he's got the momentum with the media coverage I see/hear regarding this race.
Will the last Classical Liberal please close the door when they leave the Senate.
And if he wins as an "Independent" then do the Dems have one less seat in the Senate?
Smokin Joe has said if he runs and wins as an independent, he would caucus with the Dems in the Senate.
Polls have suggested that even if Smokin Joe loses the Dem primary, he is favored to win in the general election. I don't have any confidence in that - the trend has been Lamong gaining, Joe losing. 3 months later, there's no reason not to think that Lamont's momentum would continue.
Wait and see. Looks bad for Smokin Joe.
Hillary would like nothing better. It will show the moonbats they can win in the primary but lose in the general election.
If Lieberman were to lose in the general election, Hillary! has got big problems for 2008. Because she will be unable to convince the moonbats that the nominee in 2008 has to be a centrist. And she'll either lose the nomination or have to run so far left in the 2008 primaries that she will have a hell of a time getting back to the middle by November.
The real losers will be the citizens of Connecticut, I say let them hang themselves. Joe is a good man, for a democrat, at least on the war on terror issue, but on most other issues he is a liberal democrat. I for one could give a r@t's @ss if he gets re-elected or not. So what if Connecticut elects an even more liberal Senator. It really does not change the make-up of the Senate. What it does is lessen any power Connecticut may have in the Senate.
Looks like Clinton doesn't have the pull he used to have. Maybe he's even dragging him down.
One of the interesting angles to this story that hasn't gotten a lot of attention is that Lieberman is paying the price for his "campaign laziness" over the last 12 years. He didn't have a serious primary opponent in 1994 and ran his entire campaign in 2000 on the free publicity he was getting as the vice presidential candidate, so he came into 2006 with almost no party organization to support him against a primary challenger.
Stick a fork in this mediocre hack . . . he's done.
Unlike others, I don't rejoice in the ongoing rejection of sanity in the Democratic Party. I would much rather have to deal with the likes of Harry Truman and JFK than those of Howard Dean and "Kos".
The Old Joe-mentum. I hope he now realizes that if you lie down with dogs you wake up with fleas.
A little craziness here--and I know the polls say otherwise-- but I think the primary might turn out to be pretty close, possibly even with Lieberman winning the primary.
I think Joe should sue Quinnipiac University for the bad polling results, ala Crazy McKinney. Might start a trend.
And to think that the guy was a few hanging chads away from being our Vice President.
Does the Republican candidate have any chance with the scenario being Lamont & Lieberman splitting the dem vote?
Wouldn't a Republican candidate have an advantage or is CT 99% democrat?
CORRECTION:
'Senator Lieberman's campaign bus seems to be stuck in reverse,' Schwartz said. 'BECAUSE of visits from former President Bill Clinton...'
The Dumbo party is about to lose its last adult.
Whats the Democrat/Republican breakdown in Connecticut? If its 50-30-20 (ie 20 independent) and Lieberman gets 40% of the Democrap vote, he'd need 60 % of everybody else; quite doable, I would think.
If he does run as an (I), how likely is it that he and Lamont split the dem vote and the Republican wins? I'm not that close to CT politics.
Nutmeg, another one for your ping list.