Poll: Lieberman gets support despite support of Iraq war

[sabra]

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct--poll-lieberman0111jan11,0,1047511.story?coll=ny-region-apconnecticut

Poll: Lieberman gets support despite support of Iraq war

HAMDEN, Conn. (AP)_ Sen. Joe Lieberman's support of the war in Iraq apparently has cost him some support, but not enough to cost him re-election to a new term in November, according to a Quinnipiac University poll.

Sixty-two percent of Connecticut voters approve of the Democratic senator according to the poll released Wednesday. Sixty-four percent said that he should be re-elected.

While 41 percent of Connecticut voters agree with Lieberman's support for the war in Iraq, and 51 percent disagree, only 24 percent of voters disagree strongly enough to vote against the incumbent on just that issue.

"While Sen. Lieberman has lost support among some Democrats, probably because of his strong support for the war in Iraq, he helps make up for it with support from Republicans," Douglas Schwartz, the poll director said.

[brainshrub]

1. Has he won his parties nomination yet?

I thought progressives were going to run a real Democrat against him?

[leesa]

2. Let the Repulicans run him then.

[Eric J in MN]

3. Can we support a liberal in the primary? (nt)

nt

[bigscott]

4. there has been no primary

yet - at least 2 are considering a challenge

[SaveElmer]

5. We need to wrap our brains around the fact that Joe...

Is gonna win...he is....and we are gonna just have to live with it. I am not a member of the leave Iraq now crowd, nor do I believe like Lieberman does that this war can still be considered a noble effort, and I too am disgusted by the way he backs up Bush's most ridiculuous assertions....but on this issue he is not taken seriously by other Democrats so the damage he can cause is limited...

ANd on other issues of importance such as women's rights and the environment he has been very good...

[saigon68]

6. He is a DINO

A piece of "Crumb-Cake"

[SaveElmer]

8. Brilliant response...

:sarcasm:

He's also a vote for Harry reid as MAJORITY LEADER...

And a reliable vote to filibuster any attempt at drilling in ANWR...

And for protecting a woman's right to choose...

[gratuitous]

9. Lieberman will certainly win if there's no opposition

I'd like to see him defend his record in a primary fight. The issues he'd have to answer for among Democrats aren't likely to be used by a Republican opponent against him -- can you imagine a Republican opponent knocking Holy Joe for being too close to Chimpy? Not a chance.

Let's give Joe a real test in the primary, and see just how popular he is with the Democrats in his own state. If he survives that challenge, then fine, go with him in the general election.

[yurbud]

12. with entrenched DLCers like Lieberman, just have to wait them

out and make sure when he leaves he isn't replaced by someone equally corrupt.

[SaveElmer]

15. Sorry Joe is not corrupt...

That is an incorrect term...you may not like what he stands for, and I too think he bends over way too far to accommodate Republicans...but there is no hint of scandal surrounding him.

[mmonk]

16. part of my father's legacy in fighting

against Nazi Germany were the eventual established protocols put forth at Nuremburg about illegal and aggressive war. It's a big damn issue. It's at the heart of human decency (the neocon pre-emptive war and conquests).

[zalinda]

7. I know he's a dem in name only but

why throw money down the drain to try to defeat him. When the Senate returns to dem control, he'll vote with the dems. I say, leave him alone this election. Maybe go after him when we are in control to change the face of the dems.

zalinda

[Isere]

10. Leave Lieberman alone...

it's a waste of valuable time and money to mount a challenge to him when we don't even control Congress.
As soon as we are in the majority, give me a buzz and I'll join the anti-Lieberman parade.
In the meantime, we have lots of work to do defeating REPUBLICANS!

[Larkspur]

11. Too late, Ned Lamont is setting up a campaign to challenge Lieberman

See My Left Nutmeg for more info on Lieberman and Lamont http://www.myleftnutmeg.com/

[yurbud]

13. great blog--Lieberman worried enough to say he'd run as

an independent if defeated in primary--that's a good sign.

http://www.rep-am.com/story.php?id=1349

[yurbud]

14. if Joe claims to be sincere, bust his balls about leaving Iraq's oil

alone and letting them decide when we leave.

[ikojo]

17. There's an article in the Jan 30 issue of the Nation about how

some in Connecticut are less than satisfied with Holy Joe....

Are voters ready to dump Lieberman?

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060123/biuso

At the close of a regular Democratic Town Committee meeting in Manchester, Connecticut, in December, 79-year-old Joe Rafala, a World War II veteran and party worker for more than sixty years, decided he had had enough with the state's junior senator, Joe Lieberman.

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"I was upset about our boys and girls in the armed forces getting killed, coming home in body bags," Rafala says. On January 3, the committee overwhelmingly passed the resolution. Rafala, who considers himself a moderate Democrat, speaks for many in the state who have tired of Lieberman's constant cheerleading for the war and for President Bush. "This man has gone too far," he says.

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Keith Crane, a member of the Branford, Connecticut, Democratic Town Committee, was so infuriated with Lieberman that he founded DumpJoe.com. He started the group in February 2005, the day after Lieberman voted to confirm Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and built the organization--which has attracted more than 300 members so far--using connections and skills he gained participating in meet-ups for the Howard Dean presidential campaign. At a recent state Democratic fundraiser, Crane and some others handed out buttons that featured a picture of Lieberman kissing the President--an act that got them thrown out of the event. "Most people agree with us that he's a crummy senator and an even crummier Democrat," he says.

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But are Connecticut voters really ready to dump Joe? Recent polls suggest that Democrats, at least, are starting to consider it. Remarkably, Lieberman's approval ratings are higher among Republicans and Independents than among members of his own party. Among Connecticut liberals, Lieberman is essentially tied with a potential challenger in the 2006 election, the maverick Republican Lowell Weicker.