Looking For A Silver Lining?
Well, I’ve found one.
If Joe Lieberman decides to run for a fifth term in 2012, a new Quinnipiac pollsuggests that it may be a lost cause.
The new poll tests Lieberman as an independent against Democratic Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. The numbers: Blumenthal 58%, Lieberman 30%.Yikes.
Lieberman’s active campaigning against the Democratic Party last year hasn’t won him too many friends back home. Democrats go for Blumenthal by 83%-9%, and independents are for Blumenthal 55%-29%. Lieberman is the de facto Republican nominee in this match, and with GOP voters he scores 67%-23% over Blumenthal.
Color me ecstatic, and just a little bit petty, but this strikes me as an appropriate punishment for the Linda Tripp of the Senate.
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In 2006, Lieberman garned a percentage of Democrats and a majority of Republicans against Lamont and Schlesinger. I highly doubt the Republicans will do the same again. This time they will vote for their own Republican candidate. The usefulness of Lieberman to them is over.
Reading these numbers again, I am wrong. Lieberman in this poll does garner two thirds of Republicans. I can’t imagine that will continue, especially when a Republican candidate steps forward.
I have to think that Lieberman will retire once polls show him running third behind Blumenthal and the GOP nominee.
Used to live in CT before I moved here. Still have friends up there, and they can hardly wait to get rid of Joementum! 2012 can’ t come soon enough!
I’m reading thsi thinking “Poor Tom Carper.”
He is going to lose his BFFs Castle and Lieberdouche.
For too long in America it was true that you could win just about any election simply by getting to the right of your opponent. If you reached adulthood around 1980, this is all you have ever known.
Now that game is over, but Lieberman is still living in the fantasy.
OH THANK G-D !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is easily the best news I’ve heard in weeks. No more will my home state be under that jerk’s thumb. No more will I be ashamed to be a Jew from Connecticut! HOORAY!!!!!!!
I can’t wait until Lieberman is defeated. Do you think he’ll retire or will he run again? I think he’ll run – I think he has an inflated sense of his own importance.
Jason,
Perhaps Carper will be so lonely without Lieberman and Castle that he’ll decide to retire, too.
I think Lieberman is hoping with the Republicans for an Obama failure, then he will run again.
I think what happens politically – good or bad – won’t help Lieberman. This is personal. Nobody likes the guy.