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Skriven 2006-08-17 11:35:00 av JIM HOLSONBACK (1:123/140)
Ärende: Bad News for Cut&Run Dems
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Hello, ALL

In the Connecticut primary, the Church of Liberalism succeeded in
excommunicating Old Joe for heresy against one of the essential
doctrines of its faith.

Now a completely anathemized and declared a persona non grata, Joe was
only six years ago good enough to bear his party's standard as candidate
for Vice President, and the Dem ticket even carried his home state
(unlike his running-mate, the hapless Algore).

With Lieberman showing such strength running as an independent (a twelve
point lead is a _lot_), I'm sure we can expect a lot of money to be
coming in from out of state to support both Lieberman and Lamont. The
poll numbers indicate that Repubs are willing to give up Schlesinger and
support Lieberman in order to defeat Lamont and the 'church' he
represents.

Of course, the Repubs would be glad to see Joe win, since there is
little chance of a Repub candidate winning in such a blue state.  The
Dems will redouble their efforts to assist Lamont (who has seemed so
far to be pretty much a single-issue candidate), in order to maintain
party loyalty to the McGovernite position, and since every
closely-contested Senate race is critical to their hopes to regain
control of the upper house. (As shown by Sen. Jumping Jim Jeffords in
2001, it is possible for a single independent Senator to swing the
balance of power in the Senate).

The Rev. Sharpton was already onboard.  Harry Reid donated $5K to Lamont
just after the primary, and both Bill and Hill have offered to come help
Lamont with his campaigning. This promises to get even more interesting.

What say ye?

- - -  JimH.

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Reuters 8/17/2006
Lieberman leads opponents in new poll

U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (news, bio, voting record), a three-term
Democrat now running as an independent candidate, leads the man who beat
him in last week's primary vote by 12 points in a three-way race, a poll
released on Thursday shows.

The latest Quinnipiac University poll, conducted between August 10-14,
shows Lieberman leads Democrat Ned Lamont, a wealthy businessman with
little political experience who has played on anti-war sentiment, by 53
percent to 41 percent among likely voters in November's election. The
Republican candidate Alan Schlesinger drew 4 percent, the poll shows.

Democratic voters selected Lamont as their candidate on August 8 with 52
percent of the vote after an increasingly bitter race dominated by
Lieberman's support for the Iraq war. Lieberman vowed to stay in the
race as an independent candidate in order to face Lamont and Schlesinger
in the general election in November.

The survey found that Lieberman polled best among likely Republican
voters, leading the others with 75 percent of the vote compared with
Lamont's 13 percent and Schlesinger's 10 percent.

"Senator Lieberman's support among Republicans is nothing short of
amazing," Douglas Schwartz, the university's polling director said in a
statement. "As long as Lieberman maintains this kind of support among
Republicans while holding onto a significant number of Democratic votes,
the veteran senator will be hard to beat."

Likely voters said by a 53 percent to 40 percent margin that Lieberman,
the Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate in 2000 and once a
presidential candidate himself, deserves to be re-elected.
Copyright © 2006 Reuters Limited.

... "I belong to no organized party.  I am a democrat." - - Will Rogers

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