Posted on 08/08/2006 12:18:28 AM PDT by YaYa123
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Sen. Joe Lieberman closed his anti-war opponent's double-digit lead yesterday to just six points as both candidates scrambled across the state ahead of today's Democratic primary. The latest polling results were a relief to the veteran Democrat, who has represented this state in the Senate for nearly two decades and who just six years ago was his party's vice presidential nominee. Mr. Lieberman predicted yesterday that the movement in polls showed momentum at his back and said he expects to win today. "I feel they were flirting with the other guy for a while, wanting to send me a message," he said at a campaign stop yesterday at the Rajun Cajun restaurant. "I got their message. I think they want to send me back to Washington to continue working with them, fighting for them and delivering for Connecticut."
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I expect bill clinton to take the credit.
From Hartford Courant:
"Lieberman Cuts Into Lamont's Lead
4:53 PM EDT, August 7, 2006
The Associated Press U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, fighting for his political survival, appears to be cutting into anti-war challenger Ned Lamont's lead the day before Connecticut's Democratic primary election, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday."
I've been following this race on the web, and I am impressed with how principled a guy Lieberman is. To hear the left tear at his heels really says a lot about the lack of principles they have.
I hope as a person that if a Democrat has to win - he wins, but on the other hand I think if the Dems are 100% undiluted Bush haters it will make them that much easier to defeat in November. Sure would be nice to deprive the senate of that much touted 90% democrat voting record.
I've held a belief that Ned Lamont's sizable lead was never even there, but that the lead was trumped up by the media and leftist kook-fringe moonbat liberals who don't even reside in CT.
I do not believe that it is one bit 'cynical' of you, cause other than Joe's one vote for going into Iraq he is as liberal as they come. So why not have the guy who is not hiding who he is.
See Joe's one vote to remove old Saddam does not nearly make up for his desire to be veep that he would participate in NOT counting military votes. Imagine that kind of character as waiting in the wings to be 'commander-n-chief.
Good old Dan Balz, you can always count on him. He had one sentence in this article about Lieberman gaining in the polls. It was: "A poll Monday showed Lieberman behind but gaining ground in a tight race."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14219656/
Dan Balz, WashPost, 8 Aug: "......The Connecticut race has drawn national attention because of what it may say about the president and the politics of Iraq heading into a critical midterm election and the 2008 presidential campaign, as well as what it may reveal about a Democratic Party that often has been at war with itself over foreign policy since the Vietnam era......"
Polls go all over the ballpark in the weeks and months before an election. The only poll that matters is the one on election day, because people who have NO interest whatsoever in day-to-day politics are suddenly beginning to make up their mind.
KosKid, the Kiss of Death.
I like opponents with principal [sic] but they are still opponents and I still want to defeat them.
Neither one has any principle. One is running against Bush and the other is running against his own party. This election boils down to one issue. The WOT. Lamont just happens to find himself on the wrong side of the singular issue that will define the 2006 election year.
This argument about "need to fill jobs", "provide better healthcare for citizens of my home state of [fill in the blank]", etc. being flailed around by Lamont, is gobbledygook trotted out every election year by democrats hoping to win votes.
Appealing to the sick, homeless, jobless, women and children with false hope built upon a foundation of false promises is part of the 40-year old democrat playbook.
If anyone is being honest and upfront about their record of accomplishments to the good people of the state of Connecticut, it's Senator Lieberman.
Republicans don't stand a chance of gaining the Senate seat in Connecticut held by Lieberman anyway. This election will be an election of the lesser of two evils.
Me too but also because of Joe's leading the effort to exclude military votes in Florida.
The polling data concerning the Senate Democrat primary in Connecticut is proof that polls are skewed by the polltakers. This is a common ploy of both Charlie Cook and Stuart Rothenberg, well known, but not respected, pollsters use all the time. They skew the poll in favor of the Democrat they like, and when reality time comes around, they change their poll numbers so that they do not look like idiots, which they are.
Joe Lieberman has a good shot to pull this race out because the American Jews that reside in Connecticut are realizing that Lieberman is right in defying terrorism. These Jews are now coming to reality grips that "their" heads will be chopped off in a New York minute by the same lunatics that attacked Israel. Goodness, maybe GW Bush has it right. Amazing!!!
However, if Mr. Lamont wins, you can kiss the Democrat Party goodbye. The Pubbies will paint the Democrat Party for what it really is, a traitor and treason political party operating against the best interests of the USA. If Lamont wins, the Democrats win win neither the house or the senate. On the other hand, if Joe Lieberman wins, The Democrats still lose the house and senate, because it would reveal that Democrats in Connecticut side with Joe Lieberman and GW Bush on continuing the war on terror in Iraq and around the world, rather then the "cut and run" platform of the Democrat Party. Whoever the people in the Democrat Party who let this moron, left-wing idiot Lamont out of his cage is certainly not too bright.
I've thought it, but you're the only one I've seen to discuss the impact the Lebanon-Israel war will have on the Connecticutt run-off. Jewish voters there have to be concerned about losing Lieberman in the senate. The war is 27 days old, plenty of time for voters to reconsider the wisdom of voting for a Lamont.
We can always depend on him to be the Senator from Israel.
Lieberman is not as terrible as the rest of the left, but don't be fooled - he is very skilled at giving the impression of being principled, but when it comes down to it he will just like any other politician say anything and do anything to further his personal ambition. This is the same guy who gave us the proposal to "censure" Clinton rather than have the Senate do its Constitutional duty, and then turned around and became the VP candidate under Al Gore.
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