Posted on 08/12/2006 8:59:57 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Senator Joe Lieberman’s decision to run as an Independent sets up a lively campaign season for Connecticut voters. In the first General Election poll since Ned Lamont defeated Lieberman in Tuesday’s primary, the incumbent is hanging on to a five percentage point lead. Lieberman earns support from 46% of Connecticut voters while Lamont is the choice of 41% (see crosstabs).
A month ago, the candidates were tied at 40% each.
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Lamont is toast. My dearest hope is that Lieberman will remember who did and who did not support him after the primary.
Highly improbable. A Lieberman running as an Indepedent is far more likely to siphon Democrat votes than Republican ones; he's a liberal on every issue except national security. The GOP candidate will also no doubt be a hawk on the WOT, so what about Lieberman would attract even that small % of GOP voters you speak of?
Just random comments I've read on this forum alone lead me to believe that a large-enough percentage would indeed allow themselves to be siphoned.
I do so hope you are right, believe me.
For the Democrats, that's what this election is about.
This afternoon on The Beltway Boys, Mort & Fred said that Karl called Joe and said they wouldn't be endorsing him or anything crazy that would curse him with the kiss of death...but, Karl wanted him to know the RNC would not be sending any money into Connecticut to work against him.
Who cares if he is in?
I'm surprised so many here think Lieberman is worth supporting. He may not be as extreme as Lamont, but he is pretty far to the left.
Lamont and the media have tried to present the Connecticut Senate race as a referendum on the War on Terror. If Lamont wins, the media will trumpet this as proof that the public opposes the WOT (never mind that Connecticut's opposition hardly implies nationwide sentiment). But if Lieberman wins, that will show that even in Connecticut people support the WOT much more than the media claims.
Alan Schlessinger is the ONLY candidate is the race who doesn't have a 90%+ liberal platform. The Liebermont Democrats support partial birth abortion, total gun confiscation, gay "unions", tax hikes, union thugs, illegal alien amnesty, affirmation action, envirowacko extremeists, throwing out overseas millitary ballots and want Rummy driven out of town on a rail. I gag when people like him are NOT in the race. You'd love the Illinois Governor Race, the two main candidates are both crooked socialists and the Constitution Party guy wasn't "allowed" on the ballot.
Keep voting for liberal scumbags and they'll keep running them. If a guy who voted conservative 8% of the time but supported the Iraq war is "acceptable" to you, then you'll just luuuuuuuuuuuuuv President Hillary.
I don't vote for liberals, regardless of party.
Hillary has opponents in both the primary (Steve Greenfield, far-left wacky Dem) and the general (Howie Hawkins, far-left wacky Green) attacking her for her support of the WOT and the war in Iraq.
Guess we better "get behind" the Hilderbeast to "send a message" on the WOT, eh?
Politics is the art of the possible. I would consider it very unlikely that a Republican is going to win Connecticut. Further, I perceive Mr. Lieberman's support for the WOT to be sincere. Mrs. Clinton supports it only because she knows she'd have zero chance of winning national office if she didn't.
Of course. I was talking about Lieberman running as an Ind. in the '08 Presidential election, not against Lamont this Nov.
Chuckle.
Joe Loserman lost support back when he abandoned his established Senate positions on major issues to become the VP fo Al Bore!
I love to see these consequences!
The Republican candidate, ex-state Rep. Alan Schlesinger, is polling 6%, with the remaineder undecided. Schlesinger has been discovered to have a gambling problem, to the point of having been sued by two Atlantic City casinos for unpaid debts. He is not viable, but refuses to leave the race. So conservatives and Republicans have no real choice.
That's understandable. And in addition, if Lieberman does win as an independent, he will feel less bound to members of his caucus and more willing to break with them on key votes.
"The GOP candidate will also no doubt be a hawk on the WOT"
As of right now, the GOP candidate is a joke.
If the Republican candidate was viable, you would see far more support for him.
i think the article said the repub has 6% of the vote.
I was speaking of the GOP candidate in the Presidential election of '08, not in the CT Senate race.
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