Posted on 08/05/2006 10:55:07 AM PDT by Checkers
HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 3 -- Democratic challenger Ned Lamont, riding strong antiwar sentiment, has surged to a significant lead over embattled Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) heading into Tuesday's Senate primary, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released here Thursday.
The poll showed Lamont ahead of Lieberman by 54 percent to 41 percent, underscoring the challenger's clear advantage.
Facing a likely defeat, Lieberman has scrapped plans for a massive and costly get-out-the-vote operation on primary day, according to several Democratic sources. Instead, he will shift some of his resources into more television commercials designed to highlight his accomplishments for the state, in hopes of boosting his battered image.
The three-term incumbent and 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee announced earlier that he will run as an independent in November if he loses on Tuesday to Lamont, a millionaire Greenwich businessman with limited political experience. But a landslide loss to Lamont could complicate Lieberman's hopes of winning a fourth term in a three-way general election contest.
Many Democratic leaders have endorsed Lieberman in the primary, but most of them have said they will back whoever wins the nomination.
Lieberman, a leading centrist Democrat and one of the Senate's most prominent advocates of bipartisanship, seemed invincible until a few months ago. But he has suffered from his strong support for President Bush's conduct of the war in Iraq, in a state where opposition to the war and the president runs high. And he has alienated some voters, who complain that he has neglected his home state over the years.
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Liberman = Lieberman
Just one issue? Hardly.
If Republicans tried to beat one of our incumbants, the MSM would be calling us Nazi purgers.
Kerry is their only electable candidate.
There is a strong virulent anti-semitic undercurrent in the Moonbat purge of Lieberman.
I don't understand his take on the Senate. That is not close to 50 to 50. Maybe 25 percent, 30 percent chance tops. The way I see it there are 15 races that are not completely over. The Dems need to win 13 of them. They have a huge to pretty clear edge in 9 of them, granted. They have some slight edge in 2 of them and one is truly 50/50 (MO). But all the other 3 have a fairly decent GOP lean to them. I think 11 out of 15 would be closer to an average result from that hand, fully considering how bad the current environment is for the GOP.
The right hand does not know what the left is doing. The Dems will have to get really lucky to win 6 Senate seats, and assuming they hold all their own, they need to get PA, RI, Montana, Ohio, Missouri, and then bag Tenn or Virginia. That scenario is a royal flush.
Looks like the dems are in trouble! Good thing the republican voters agree that Bush is fighting the War On Terror with 100% aggression without the democrat PC crap that lost us vietnam.
Right, and if we can't even manage to throw them off the train for all those issues they're wrong on, then it's definitely interesting that the rabid left has become so foaming that they're willing to sacrifice Lieberman over Iraq.
Republicans and Conservatives should go out and vote for Lieberman on Tuesday, payback for the Michigan, New Hampshire, and South Carolina Democrats that voted in the 2000 Presidential Primary.
Also, Georgia Republicans should vote for Johnson in the 4th District against Anti-Semite and anti-American Rep Cynthia McKinney.
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