Posted on 08/29/2006 8:55:16 AM PDT by rface
Liebernman (I) - 49.4%
Lament (D) - 39.4%
Schlesinger (R) - 2.1%
Lieberman held a 12-point edge over Lamont in an Aug. 17 Quinnipiac poll.........
A new poll by Zogby International suggests that the Connecticut gubernatorial race has begun to tighten, placing Gov. M. Jodi Rell ahead of New Haven Mayor John DeStefano by 17 points.
But a Rell spokesman discounted those results, saying Zogby doesn't use a random sampling process and that it questioned only about half the number of "likely voters" surveyed in another poll.
And while the Zogby poll tracks Rell's lead at about half the 32-point margin she held in a Quinnipiac University survey released this month, the two polls are relatively similar when it comes to the race for U.S. Senate.
Zogby found U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, a New Haven Democrat running without his party's endorsement, leads Democratic nominee Ned Lamont of Greenwich 49.4 percent to 39.4 percent, with 2.1 percent going to the Republican nominee, former Derby Mayor Alan Schlesinger. Lieberman held a 12-point edge over Lamont in an Aug. 17 Quinnipiac poll.
That same poll had Rell, a Brookfield Republican, leading DeStefano - fresh off a Democratic primary win over Stamford Mayor Dannel P. Malloy - 60 percent to 28 percent. Quinnipiac had surveyed 1,083 voters deemed "likely" to vote in November after a series of screening questions.
But Zogby, which surveyed 533 likely voters between Aug. 15 and 21, found Rell leading 53.1 percent to 35.7 percent. That poll has a 4.2 percent margin of error.
"It certainly doesn't track with any of the other polls we have ever seen," Rell spokesman Rich Harris said today. "There's some real questions about Zogby's methodology."
Besides using a relatively small sample, Zogby also relies on voters who volunteer to participate in polling, rather than those selected through random sampling, Harris said.
DeStefano spokesman Derek Slap said Zogby's results are "consistent with what we're seeing and what we're hearing. This race is going to tighten. With gas prices, property taxes, and health care premiums remaining sky high, people are going to take a closer look at Governor Rell's record and see that she's not getting the job done."
Lamont spokeswoman Liz Dupont-Diehl declined to comment about the Zogby poll. The Lamont camp consistently has said it is not basing its decisions on poll numbers.
Lieberman spokesman Daniel Gerstein noted that Zogby results for the Senate race are similar to those from Quinnipiac. But he added that while the campaign is cautiously optimistic, "we're running as if we're running behind. We know we have a tough race. We're challenging the conventional way of politicking."
Ah... never mind. Helps if I open my good eye.
Good. I wonder if this remark portends how he'd behave in the Senate.
Oooohhh...Rell is up on DeStefano by ONLY 17 points...she had better watch out, or she may only win by 15 now! /sarcasm
I was at the Pilot Pen tennis tourny on Saturday. Destefano got up to speak...LORD! That voice would make a preacher kick out a stained glass window.
Good news about Rell. And it sounds as if Lieberman is doing better than the MSM has been saying, if an Islamist like Zogby says he still holds a lead.
Not even Zogby can skew these results.
Zogby isn't very reliable these days.
You are right. I think once they start having televised debates, DeStefano will lose ground because he comes off rather badly on TV.
He really got it handed to him in the last presidential election where he was cooking the books right up into receiving bogus exit poll results and updating his thereby wrong "predictions" after the fact. Total humiliation. He better fix his methodology this time. Rassmussen came back from the dead by coming close to the actual result after a wildly wrong prediction the previous election.
I would not vote for Lieberman if I lived in Connecticut, but it will be funny if Lamont loses after all the victory parties the far-left had when he won the primary.
Governor?
I was wondering about that too?
This doesn't make sense.
Is there a lesson that conservative motivated voters should take away from this in their views of who to vote for in the Presidential primaries of '08? Hopefully there is no national Perot or other Lieberman equivelent, but the instruction offered by this occurance isn't limited to a third party feint, but instead focuses in on Party versus ideological purity.
Barring some major scandal hurting Lieberman, this one's over. Though the state is overwhelmingly "blue"/lefty as a whole, there's still sufficient Republican (or-Stop-Lament) energy to, well, Stop Lament.
The "victory" (at the primary) of Lament and NeverMoveOn.Duh truly was self-defeating. Even if Joe doesn't Jump Like Jeffords (and I don't believe he will) after he wins, still his @$$ is gonna be chapped. Don't look for Joe to filibuster any judicial nominees, for example.
Very nice.
I'm under no illusions about Mr. Lieberman, but I do really want him to win his seat back---as an Indie.
I's are not D's and the fewer D's there are in the Senate, the better I like it. Even if Joe caucuses with the Rats (and he will), his seat still won't count toward a Rat majority for leadership positions, etc.
Plus it would be a major blowback to the moonbat left.
Wait -- I thought Joe was already running as an Independent, since Lamont is the Rat candidate.
If he's running as an (I), isn't he already Jumpin' Jeffords? Or am I missing something here.
Joe's firmly stated (daily, by now; almost hourly in the news cycles just before the primary vote) that he's remaining a Democrat; my point in referring to Jeffords was to stress that Lieberman, upon re-election in November, will continue to caucus with the Dems.
In any case, Joe says he's "an independent Democrat," although for state-ballot-rules purposes he may be listed as an "Independent." Dunno.
Oh, then I have been sorely mistaken.
I thought if he ran as an "I," he had to govern as an "I."
Hmmmm.
Well . . . in any event, I hope he wins. It would be a slap in the face to the moonbat base.
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