Lieberman loss offers signs of angry electorate

[rodeodance]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060809/pl_nm/usa_politics_connecticut_dc;_ylt=AvkmsvB6iZIzG1fzwYavgPqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-

Lieberman loss offers signs of angry electorate

By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent 2 hours, 21 minutes ago

HARTFORD, Connecticut (Reuters) - U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (news, bio, voting record)'s defeat in Connecticut offered tangible evidence of Democratic anger with President George W. Bush and the
Iraq war and could be an early sign of a strong anti-incumbent mood before November's election, analysts said on Wednesday.

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Lamont had cast the race with Lieberman as a referendum on the Iraq war. A CNN poll released on Wednesday showed 60 percent of Americans oppose the war in Iraq and a majority would support a partial withdrawal of troops by year's end.

Lieberman's defeat came on the same night two House incumbents, Republican moderate Joe Schwarz in Michigan and liberal Democrat Cynthia McKinney in Georgia, lost in their own primary challenges.

Each had special circumstances contributing to their losses, but, along with the defeats of more than a dozen incumbent state legislators in Pennsylvania earlier this year, they offered a cumulative warning signal for November, when control of Congress will be up for grabs.........

[Child_Of_Isis]

1. Oh, those angry, angry Dems.

Is that the best they got? :eyes:

[partylessinOhio]

2. The people are angry. The people interviewed on cable channels

and the callers on C-Span had a litany of reasons why they could no longer support Lieberman which included the war, increasing costs of the war, the loss of jobs, the millions without health care, the Medicare drug program and the bankruptcy bill which Lieberman voted for. This was not a one issue rejection of Lieberman, it was eighteen years of him and the many many reasons they want a change.

[saigon68]

3. Ah yes don't forget Limpmann voted for the bankruptcy bill

You are 75. Your only asset is your house.

Your husband dies with $200,000.00 worth of unpaid medical bills.

You can't go bankrupt without jumping through all kinds of hoops

And you will lose your house

NICE GOING JOE YOU FUCKING COCKSUCKER

[cliss]

7. Saigon,

you said it better than I could. I rest my case (and that's rare for me....:smoke:)

[saigon68]

8. Sorry I got really angry at Zell Limpmann

I should have been more refined in my criticism

NAH---

[warrens]

4. The dozen in PA got the boot because they met at midnight

To give themselves a huge raise, while slashing the budget for everyone else. That's why they lost,not because they were incumbants.

[UCLA Dem]

5. I think most people are pretty angry right now, hopefully...

it will be used constructively and put in a Democratic Congress this Fall.

[bemildred]

6. And why should we not be angry? nt

[krkaufman]

9. Ah, the headlines. They be more accurate to say "hopeful"

The voters in Connecticut aren't necessarily "angry." They're just as likely *HOPEFUL* that Lamont can help restore sanity to Congress, and that he'll negotiate from a position of strength -- rather than from his knees, as the senior Senator from Connecticut has been doing for nigh on 6 years plus.