Posted on 08/08/2006 8:28:41 PM PDT by psychopuppy
Breaking News Lieberman Concedes Senate Race, Will Run as Independent Just a headline right now....
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
They did, didn't they and I wonder why...
Huh?
The de-mokkker-rat party has been weighed in the scales and found wanting.
He may have been hoping that the NJ supreme court would rule that Lieberman couldn't run as an independent.
Does anyone know the laws for Senate races where no candidate get 50%? Do they have a run-off, or just declare the top vote getter the winner? I see little chance Lamont can get 50% of the vote, though I think he will be the overall vote winner.
Lieberman will have to pull at least 20% of the total vote to give the GOP candidate a chance, assuming Lieberman doesn't draw GOP voters (which he probably will, since he is a better alternative to Lamont and actually has a chance of winning). CT is a 65%-35% Dem-GOP split.
Sorry, none here.
Lieberman's a sore loser, just like he was in 2000. You run in the primary. If you lose, tough darts. All he's proving here is that it's all about Joe. I hate the DEMs, but if they want a moonbat, they have every right to vote for one, and if Joe had any real class, he'd concede and move on. It's interesting the sense of entitlement that overcomes incumbents. They think once they've got the office, it's inconcievable that the peon voters might vote them out and pick someone else. Again, I hate the moonbats and Ned Lamont is an idiot, but Lieberman is being a sore loserman. He ran, he lost. Now he needs to get over it.
Lieberman wins as an independent, and the Dems lose another vote in the Senate. This *could* mean that we get the nuclear option.
What a BRILLIANT Democrat strategy!!
What committee assignments will he lose now? I'm sure this question has been answered before--can I have a link?
I understand the GOP candidate is very weak.
No sympathy here. He's a sore loser.
The Democrat Party is now officially the party of cut and run cowards and traitors (of course, they were all along, but this just puts a sharper point on their pointy heads).
He said he was running as an independent DEMOCRAT.
I predict Lieberman winning this fall which could energize other third party candidates for future races. Exciting!
Have you been following the polls? The registered Dems make up less than 1/3 of the registered voters in Conn, The majority are registered as Independents.
Thanks for the info, don't really know the subtleties of the Cut's political scene
No more calls, folks. We have a winner.
It is going to be exciting..
:D
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