Poll: Conn. Voters Still Back Lieberman

[Kadie]

Poll: Conn. Voters Still Back Lieberman
By SUSAN HAIGH, Associated Press Writer

Wednesday, January 11, 2006


(01-11) 12:30 PST HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) --


Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman's support of the war in Iraq apparently has cost him some support, but not enough to threaten his re-election in November, according to a poll released Wednesday.


Sixty-two percent of Connecticut voters approve of the way he is handling his job, while 24 percent do not and the rest didn't know, according to the telephone survey.


Seventy-five percent of Republicans, 61 percent of unaffiliated voters and 59 percent of Democrats said Lieberman deserves to be re-elected.


"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," said Quinnipiac pollster Douglas Schwartz.


"Any senator running for re-election this year would be extremely happy to have Lieberman's poll numbers," he said.

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[movonne]

1. Ah yes, but things can change between now and the election....

[Warpy]

2. Lieberman serves his area well

in much the same way Hillary Clinton serves urban NY. They're both pro corporate, antilabor fiscal conservatives with decent records on civil rights issues and kneejerk support for Israel.

They just suck when you try to translate them to a national level.

[KingFlorez]

3. Why wouldn't they?

He still represents their interest well, except the war.

[Nutmegger]

4. Lieberman's support for the war

is unacceptable. I will work damn hard for a viable candidate who is anti-Iraq war.

[movonne]

5. Yes, I agee...

[Tom Joad]

6. So many dead Iraqi children. That is Lieberman's legacy.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. 75% of the Republicans like him. That pretty well says it all.

The DLC must be proud.

[William769]

10. Yes we are.

Nothing like being able to reach across the Isle,stay to one side and your doomed.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. The DLC reaches across the aisle with their lips puckered.

And, their hands out to the corporations and their capitalist masters.

[Clark2008]

12. But the only reason he's popular with them is because

he votes like a Republican, which isn't good for the common man.

That doesn't bother you?

Oh - and Mr. Benchley, below, I'm in Tennessee - hardly a state that produces too many "leftist loonies." I just don't like corporate ass kissers.

[yodermon]

14. Please.

List examples of where Republicans have "reached across the aisle".
List examples of where Republicans were "doomed" for NOT "reaching across the aisle".
Go ahead.
List them right here ===>________________________________________________________________________________.


The only "reaching" going on is the reach-around that the repukes give the DLC while systematically fucking the grassroot Dems up the ass, if not outright killing them a la Paul Wellstone
or RFK
or MLK
or John Lennon
or JFK.

That's right.
As a bonus, list all outspoken right-wing activists who have been assassinated in the last century.
Go ahead.
List them right here ==>_____________________________________________________________.

The DLC are enablers at best and agents provacateurs at worst. The truth is probably somewhere in between, i.e., they are power-hungry corporatists for which Power and Politics trump Principle
every
damn
time.
good day.

[Marr]

15. Lieberman's more of a "reach around" than a "reach accross the aisle".

[Bob3]

8. Pretty much pure Spin - since he has to run against a real republican

in a race loss of his Democratic base support would NOT be automatically made up by cross over Republican voters- who would I assume be voting for a man who was just as or even more supportive of the Ape's Iraqi catastrophe So that's a wash. Leaving the race down to who is more moral or some nonsense about gay marriage, taxes, or some other GOP frothing at the mouth point.

If there was a primary he'd have to face someone who would take him on at his most vulnerable point - his support of the war and his very cosy relations with the Ape. Screaming about video games wouldn't help much during a primary. Of course the little creep has said if he lost in the primary he'd run as an independent so we see his main loyalty is to Joe Lieberman since that would pretty much ensure that the GOP candidate won -which is the whole point of the exercise there - trying to head off a primary challenge that he could well lose by threatening to split the Democratic vote.

And we don't know what the corrosive effects of the continuing blood bath in Iraq is going to have along with the GOP's apparent inability to refuse a bribe will have on Joe's standing since he's been so buddy bud with them. Lie down with dogs get up with fleas.

[MrBenchley]

9. Not surprising

Connecticut is a state that has always valued bipartisanship....extremism doesn't play well there from either side.


Connecticut Democrats are trying to oust a popular Republican governor--they're not going to toss the popular top of their ticket out just to suit a bunch of out of state lefitst loonies.

[Larkspur]

13. But Lieberman's support has DROPPED 11 pts

He's going DOWN, not up or staying in the stratosphere. His numbers are coming back to Earth and he will be very vunerable, especially if Ned Lamont runs a very good campaign. Also as the war in Iraq continues to get worse and Lieberman keeps supporting it, Lieberman's numbers, especially among Democrats, will decrease. This will make Lieberman very vunerable in a primary.

Another thing to consider, Lieberman has threatened the CT Democratic Party. He has threatened to run as an Independent in the general election if he loses the Dem Primary. To do this, Joe must file a petition with the appropriate number of signatures a day or two after the primary. That means that Joe will be collecting signatures to run as an Independent while he's campaigning as a Democrat during the primary election cycle. This is clear evidence that Joe is in office for HIMself, not for CT citizens.

Joe must be feeling the pressure, if he has had to toss out his trump card -- running as an Independent -- this early in the election cycle. Lieberman is a moral hypocrite and coward.