Quinnipiac Poll: Lieberman leads by 12 points over Lamont [View All]

[jerry611]

According to a Quinnipiac poll, Senator Lieberman has a 12 point lead over Ned Lamont in a 3-way race. Lieberman has a 22 pt lead over Lamont among registered independents, and a 75 point lead over Lamont among Republicans. The vote among Democrats is still split almost 50/50.

This is very bad because if Lieberman wins, he will no longer be considered a Democrat. Which means the Democrats lose a seat that should have been easily won. That means we would now need +7 net gain to retake the Senate. And that my friends, just might be too much to ask.
If the GOP holds control...Lieberman, as an independant, can then ally with the GOP for organizational purposes and get back on the committees that the Democrats strip him from.

The Republican candidate, Alan Schlesinger, has plummitted to only 4 pts. It appears that practically every single Republican voter in Connecticut has jumped on Lieberman's bandwagon in order to defeat Lamont. That combined with the independants that love Lieberman may give him a lead impossible for Lamont to overtake.

From the article:
"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."

Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060817/pl_nm/connecticut_lieberman_dc