Sunday, August 13, 2006

Lieberman Favored Over Lamont In Poll

Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) may have lost the Democrat primary in Connecticut earlier this week to Ned Lamont, but a new poll taken after his primary loss shows that he is leading Lamont as an independent candidate in November. The widely respected Rasmussen Reports shows Lieberman leading Lamont by a 46%-41% margin. That's better than Lieberman's showing in a pre-primary poll. The Republican candidate, Alan Schlesinger, is getting support from only 6% of Connecticut voters. More than a third of the state's Democrats still plan to vote for Lieberman.

Sun-Times columnist Robert Novak writes that "old-line Connecticut Democrats who backed insurgent candidate Ned Lamont against Sen. Joseph Lieberman were appalled to see their candidate flanked at his Tuesday night primary election celebration in Meriden, Conn., by two contentious African-American political activists from out of state." He is referring to the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton. Novak says that "faithful Democrats" are urging Lamont to distance himself from the two. They see a danger in the two driving Republican, independent and some Democrat voters into supporting Lieberman's independent candidacy. From the looks of Rasmussen's poll that is already happening.

4 comments:

Wilson46201 said...

on the other hand, I found it appalling that Joe Lieberman in his non-consession speech was surrounded by a lily-white crowd of supporters ... kinda like the GOP members of the Indiana Legislature or Congress ...

Wilson46201 said...

http://www.Sore-Loserman.com

Anonymous said...

Most of those around Liberman were his family, Wilson.

And, uh, they're white.

God, why does this always have to disintegrate into a shouting match about race?

Anonymous said...

On the other hand, anything Novak writes is suspect. His political neutrality credentials died three decades ago.

He always looks like he just sucked on a lemon. What a sourpuss.