Quinnipiac Poll: Lieberman leads by 12 points over Lamont

[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

[Kagemusha]

1. You think a (D) beside the name makes him a Democrat?

Just asking...

[jerry611]

4. When it comes to the organization of the Senate....yes it does

If Lamont loses, Democrats lose a seat. That means Democrats will need to defeat another Republican somewhere else just to break even.

[Kagemusha]

5. Hey, holding the Senate and doing zip with it is not gonna cut it.

If the Democrats are nominally in charge and Lieberman undercuts them publicly and privately at every turn I can hardly call that "controlling" the Senate.

[jsamuel]

2. "has jumped on Lieberman's bandwagon in order to defeat Lamont"

or to support Lieberman...

goes to show you, Lieberman is in denial that he is a Republican

[Robbien]

3. A month ago the same poll had Lieberman ahead by 24 points

So Lieberman lost 12 points in just one month.

This is good news.

[Botany]

6. Don't worry be happy

http://www.surveyusa.com/50State2006/50StateBushApproval060815Approval.htm

bush = iraqi war = Joe L

[WI_DEM]

7. but Lieberman insists he is an "independent democrat" and

will organize with the democrats the way Jeffords has. Looks like the media assassination of Ned Lamont has been successful this far.

If Lieberman wins and decides to cast his votes with the Republicans to organize the next senate it proves what everybody has been saying about him all along. He cares nothing about anybody but himself.