"Personally, I love the way this has the Democrats twisted up in knots."
Posted on 08/21/2006 9:34:20 AM PDT by rellimpank
The giddiness from those on the far left after Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman went down in his Democratic primary against Ned Lamont, who ran an anti-Bush, anti-Iraq campaign, may be short-lived.
A poll released last week finds that Sen. Lieberman, now running as an independent in the general election, has a comfortable lead over Mr. Lamont.
The survey, conducted by Quinnipiac University pollsters, found that 53 percent of likely voters favor Sen. Lieberman, while 41 percent back Mr. Lamont. Just 4 percent supported the Republican candidate, who is being encouraged by members of his own party to withdraw from the race.
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Was 6% now 12%. According to the dimocRATS that is confirmation of the Iraq war and the war on terrorism. Hahahahaha.
Maybe the previous 6% poll was of all registered voters?
I'd rather concentrate on picking up a few more Republican seats in the Senate. Like in MD (Steele), Florida, and New Jersey for example.
I'm really getting tired of hearing about both of these RATs.
This would be a psychologically crushing blow to the Daily KOS/MoveOn/DU gang, a major bitch-slap to the Democrats' hopes of pulling off an electoral coup this year, and a huge excuse for a pull-out-the-stops Schadenfreude Party here at FR.
I mean, I have a feeling Lieberman may pull it off on his own, but if he gets significant Republican support, it'll be a sweep, and Lamont will feel like Cynthia McKinney. And we ALL want that, don't we? ;)
[PARTY LOYALTY STATEMENT: I wouldn't suggest such a thing if the Republican was a player in this race, but sometimes ya got to be realistic.)
I don't think that is in the best interests of anybody but Lieberman the hack politician!
Or is that Lament running around in a Lieberman suit...?
Actually it should come as no surprise. Indepednents outnumber both republicans and democrat in connecticuit. Probably more then likely the latest poll took samples from independents as well. The republican candidate has no chance sorry to say. Personally I want Lieberman too win. I'm glad he has the moral clarity when it comes to the war on terror. I also want Lieberman to win because of he vile racist black face attack on him as well. I can't believe I'm actually hoping for a liberal to win, but in this very rare case I am.
Yeah, I understand, and I knew I'd catch some flames for saying that. But with 4%, the Republican's not in the race, and it's a chance to rub Neddie Lamont's nose (as well as the rest of the leftwing looneys who supported him) in poop.
Check out this link.
Personally, I love the way this has the Democrats twisted up in knots.
"Personally, I love the way this has the Democrats twisted up in knots."
I could not agree more. We should ignore CT. Let the Dims spend their time, money, energy and effort deciding WHICH Dim wins the seat. The GOP should concentrate on winnable races and pick off a few seats.
Parties want to get primaries over early so that the differences and divisions caused by the primary fights are over early and the party can unite and try to win the general election. In CT, the "primary" fight (and internal Dim party divisions) will be magnified and highlighted right up to the general election. No matter who wins, this will be a great opportunity for the GOP. The Dims will take money, campaign time, TV time, etc. that could be used for Md, NJ, OH, etc. and spend it on Lieberman trashing Lamont AND on Lamont trashing Lieberman! Karl Rove could not have orchestrated this race any better!
More pressure can be put on Schlesinger to withdraw, if it's widely enough publicized that the man has a long history as a degenerate gambler who has been tossed out of casinos for card counting (under alias, "Alan Gold") and sued twice for being a gambling debt deadbeat (he was forced to finally pay up).
Schlesinger may be a weasel, but he's not stupid. He knows this sort of publicity would hurt his chances in future runs for offices he actually has a chance of winning. That could prompt him to "spend more time with family" instead of staying in the Senate race.
Judging from the scant information on Schlesinger's positions at his website, he's MIA on all but one foreign policy issue (illegal immigration). He doesn't even give his position on the WOT, the #1 national issue. He tried to hide who he was from the casinos and now he's apparently doing the same thing with the voters.
Lieberman: 45 (46) Lamont: 43 (41) Schlesinger: 6 (6)
My feelings on the two recent polls (of today):
Rasmussen's poll is within the range of what would be called MOE movement. It is too soon to tell without future polls whether this is "real" movement, or just wobbling within a certain range.
ARG appears to mirror the Rasmussen result, and because of that should be included in a polling estimate. I caution though, that ARG, historically, has only been found to be reliable in NH polling and little else. Of all the major polling companies to do a large amount of races in 2004 (and 2000, iirc), they consistently had the strongest Democrat lean, in a field (polling) which by its nature tends to leave its lesser contestants leaning towards the Democrats (demographics in telephone numbers).
So, we are in a tough spot to believe on this one. Of course, the logic of "what have you done for me lately" would lead one to think that the Q has the better result, but the Q's LV screen has always sort of troubled me.
I would tend to hold that, because of the fact that no polls have shown Lamont in the lead (MOE thingy), that Lieberman is leading somewhere outside of the MOE of these polls (5%-7%). However, I do agree that it will tend to get closer.
Lamont has nowhere to go but down. Soon the ugly truth will hit the airwaves and Ned will have a tough time getting up off the canvass. Lamont runs a non union shop and belonged to an all white country club. Uh oh, it's gonna get nasty! :-}
We shall see. I don't think the country club is going anywhere but the non union shop might, depending on the details.
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