Poll: Lieberman Would Lose 2012 Re-Election In Landslide

[babylonsister]

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Poll: Lieberman Would Lose 2012 Re-Election In Landslide
By Eric Kleefeld - February 10, 2009, 9:16AM


If Joe Lieberman decides to run for a fifth term in 2012, a new Quinnipiac poll suggests that it may be a lost cause.

The new poll tests Lieberman as an independent against Democratic Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. The numbers: Blumenthal 58%, Lieberman 30%. Yikes.

Lieberman's active campaigning against the Democratic Party last year hasn't won him too many friends back home. Democrats go for Blumenthal by 83%-9%, and independents are for Blumenthal 55%-29%. Lieberman is the de facto Republican nominee in this match, and with GOP voters he scores 67%-23% over Blumenthal.

Lieberman's job approval is also at only 45%, with 48% disapproving. Among Democrats that's a 21%-70% rating, Republicans 75%-20%, while independents give him a narrow approval of 48%-46%.

A lot can happen in four years, but right now it doesn't look like Lieberman has too many options. He can't run as a Democrat, he would still lose as a Republican, and there's no reason to believe that staying as an independent will provide much more of an opportunity.

[Bonn1997]

1. I bet the media doesn't touch this story, unfortunately

[Eric J in MN]

2. Richard Blumenthal is another Lieberman.

Richard Blumenthal crusades against MySpace over the fact that people can setup accounts anonymously (just as we can at DU) and some of the people with accounts are sex offenders.

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

6. He also fights for the environment, opposes utility rate hikes to

finance executive compensation increases, forces predatory lenders to reimburse borrowers, etc etc. For some reason, MySpace privacy issues don't seem too important to me.

[Eric J in MN]

7. If Richard Blumenthal gets a bill passed to end anonymously joining websites,

...then people won't be able to join DU anonymously.

[Arugula Latte]

3. I would love nothing better than to see that Rat Bastard get his ass handed to him.

:grr:

[sharp_stick]

4. I don't see lieberdouche

running again. Nobody in CT thinks he's useful in anyway, the pukes hate him almost if not more than the Democrats.

[bdamomma]

5. I hope Connecticut does not repeat old mistakes and vote him in again.

He needs to go.