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Democrats have a good chance of taking three GOP House seats in CT, but, of course, the Lieberman "independent" bid is complicating matters. One of the reasons the GOP is going all out for Lieberman in CT (discarding their own GOP nominated candidate to back Traitor Joe) is to help the GOP House majority. Joe's strongest constiutency according to the polls are among the states Republicans (a recent poll gives him 75% of the GOP vote, compared to 53% of the independent vote and 35% of the Democratic vote). It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that Lieberman's GOTV effort will be to bring as many Republicans out to vote on election day as possible. If Lieberman hadn't run as a indie and respected the choice of the free and open Democratic primary--there is a good chance that many republicans would have just sit out this election given that their own Senate Candidate has a gambling problem and has aroused little popular support. Not only has Rove, Bush, and most other national republicans endorsed Lieberman, but so has the three endangered Republican representatives. They are banking on their endorsement of Lieberman to strengthn their own "independent" credentials with the states large bloc of independent voters.
If all of this wasn't enough, Lieberman's new pollster, Neil Newhouse, has strong ties to the GOP (including Jeb Bush) and is planning to share his polling, according to Daily Kos, with the GOP congressional candidates so that they can all have the same message! and they don't have to pay for polling and can concentrate on GOTV.
So Joe's "indie" bid could potentially risk defeating a truly progressive anti-war democrat in Ned Lamont, and also help re-elect three endangered GOP representatives, making it harder for Democrats to win back the house.
But, of course, Joe Lieberman is a man of "unimpeachable integrity" right? Lieberman has and always has been out to further his own career. If he wins it will be payback time and he'll do it by caucusing with the GOP or becoming an out and out Republican. He'll stab Harry Reid in the back--and Reid nor any other Democrat shouldn't surprised because this is the real Joe Lieberman.
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