Lieberman shows signs cutting into Lamont lead, poll shows

[MaineDem]

HARTFORD, Conn. --U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, fighting for his political survival, appears to be cutting into challenger Ned Lamont's lead the day before Connecticut's Democratic primary election, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday.

The poll shows Lamont, a wealthy Greenwich businessman, with a slight lead of 51 percent to 45 percent over Lieberman among likely Democratic voters heading into Tuesday's primary.

Last week's Quinnipiac poll showed Lamont leading 54 percent to 41 percent. Lamont also had a slight lead in Quinnipiac's July 20 poll.

"Obviously we are very thrilled," Lieberman spokeswoman Marion Steinfels said. "People who are making this decision are taking a serious look at Lieberman and Lamont and believe that Joe's the one who has been fighting for them."

http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2006/08/07/lieberman_shows_signs_cutting_into_lamont_lead_poll_shows/?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News

[DeepModem Mom]

1. I was worried we had assumed this race was over. nt

[rodeodance]

6. yes, we can't count the chick before it is hatched.

[saigon68]

2. Joe has been "FIGHTING " for the Special Interests that PAY HIM

[ananda]

3. Is this because the GOP are..

.. going to vote for him?

[jpkenny]

4. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot the new Dem registrants were not former

Republicans switching over to vote for Joe.

[Robbien]

8. GOPers couldn't switch, they missed the deadline

Only Independents could switch over. It is possible that many of those Independents were GOPers who didn't want to declare their GOP status in the Democratic state of Connecticut

[IndianaGreen]

15. Many self-described independents and libertarians are really Republican

they just don't use that party label.

[leveymg]

5. Is this an "open" Democratic primary where anyone can vote?

I've always thought that was an invitation to great mischief. That loophole needs to be closed.

[Dhalgren]

9. For a "run-off" like this, I think you have to be a registered

Democrat in order to vote. Of course, I could be mistaken, a shock, I know, but it has happened before... :hi:

[Robbien]

11. No it is not open. You can only vote in the party

you are registered to vote. That is why so many Indies hurried and switched their declaration.

[Norquist Nemesis]

7. "Lamont, a wealthy Greenwich businessman"...awww poor Joe

He's just a commoner, NOT! So far, every time I see Lieberman campaign staffer or Joe on about this race, it appears they've hired people who have references from Rove! Where did these people come from? And an even better question...where have they been before this race? Why didn't Joe sign them up and fight like this before this race? hmmmmmmm....

[leesa]

17. I know. Poor Joe's destitute. Must be why his wife's working as a lobbyist

for fat cats.

[w4rma]

10. It's time for one last big campaign push against LIEberman.

There is no way that he can be allowed to keep his office. And he needs to lose by 10 % or more to give him enough of a wallop to not give up his distraction of a run in the general election in opposition to the Democrat.

Also, the people LIEberman has working for him do not appear to be Democrats at all. They appear to act like Republicans do. And LIEberman has spent far more time attacking Democrats in this race than he ever did against Republicans in *any* other race. If that jerk had attacked Cheney like he does Lamont, then maybe he would have been Vice President and the Bush nightmare would have never come to pass.

Connecticut Dems supporting this LIEberman are wimps, imho. They are wishy-washy pro-war wimps.

[Strawman]

12. MTP this weekend was pro-Joe propaganda

They kept repeating and showing graphics about how Lieberman votes with the Dems 90% of the time. But it's not the raw percentage of times Joe votes with the Democrats that matters. A vote with the party on some non-controversial issue simply is not as salient as the war, where he has been George Bush's Democratic bodyguard. It's absurd to treat all votes as equivalent. And it's also more than his mere floor votes that should matter. It's his pro-war rhetoric.

The way Lamont's statements about Kerry's withdrawl proposal and Levin's proposal were parsed was equally stupid. Bottom line, if one doesn't like this war and wants us out, vote for Lamont. If one doesn't believe that Lamont is more likely than Lieberman to vote and speak on behalf of getting us the hell out of Iraq, well that person is a fucking moron.

What Lanny Davis did on MTP this weekend was a con job for Joe with some help from Timmy. And Jim Dean was overmatched. He did a poor job of defending Lamont. He was disarmed, I think, by Davis' feelings about the nature of contemporary political discourse and went out of his way to be nice to Joe.

[Zorra]

16. Joe should vote with the Dems 100% of the time.

That's what DEMS elected him to do.

And the reason he is going down is because he votes with the republicans and Democrats no longer trust him.

With very, very few exceptions, TV news programs are nothing but corporate sponsored fascist propaganda outlets.

[Nederland]

23. NO!

Senators are elected to represent the people of their state, not a particular national party.

[Norquist Nemesis]

21. I'd like to see a little more in-depth analysis about that 90%

Is that over his entire career?
Does that percentage hold since Bush has been in office?
How many of those votes were close? What about fillibusters? Were those 10% crucial votes where it would have been won by the Democratic side of the aisle had he voted with them?

The 90% of the time doesn't mean shit in my book. It's a meaningless number that's been thrown out there as part of Joe's Dog and Pony Show.

[depakid]

24. MTP is an utterly worthless show- misinformation

and propaganda.

Quite possibly the worst of the airwaves.

Every time I've made the mistake of watching it over the past several years I've regretted it.

[skipos]

13. Joe is "thrilled" to be losing by 6%?

Things must be really bad for him.

[sam sarrha]

14. CNN and all the media have been campaigning free for him..

[WhiteTara]

18. sounds like re-interpreting the polls

reading the inside of the curve agains the outside of the other curve...assuming a 4pt +/- spread.

[rocktivity]

19. And old Republican trick enjoyed by old Republicans

The race mysteriously "tightens up" right before the deadline, then the Republican manages to win by a recount-proof margin--sound familiar? DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE, CONNECTICUT--GET OUT THERE AND VOTE!!!

:headbang:
rocknation

[onehandle]

20. "error margin of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points"

I'm pretty thrilled, too.

[Little Star]

22. Lanny Davis said..............

I was out running errands this morning. Mike Barnacle had Lanny Davis on his radio show talking about Joe. Davis basically said that all the big papers in CT of endorsed Joe and that they are right. He said Ned is a liar!!!! Joe's voting record shows that he votes with the Dems 90% of the time. Blah, blah blah. He was at Yale, 2 yrs behind Joe, and knows him well. He knows who Joe really is and Joe is a Dem.

It was like he was bragging about how the establishment is pro Joe and Ned is just a rich liar buying adds with his own money to smear Joe. It made me sick! I use to really like Lanny Davis. Now, not so much. He was playing a very nasty game of pool today.