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Originally Posted by Xantar
And then there's the question of Schlessinger. The smartest thing Republicans could do is get him to drop out because his support base would largely break for Lieberman over Lamont. But there's no indication yet that he will do that.
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I actually agree that th Rep should do that. It makes sense and Lamont is a borderline loon from what I've heard from him.
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Anyway, the Democratic Party establishment did in fact see this coming, and they gave a lot of support to Lieberman. For whatever reason, Lamont won anyway. And I would also point out that as recently as late June, Lamont was trailing Lieberman in polls. We've got twice as much time from now until November, and there's simply no telling which way the polls will go in that amount of time.
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What do you consider support? I've never seen so LITTLE support for an entrenched high profile candidate like Lieberman from his own party. Hillary at best abstained from supporting either candidate until the writing was on the wall. And I'm not referring to lip service, I'm referring to real support, like the kind Lamont got from the far left during the run-off.
As for poll, as I said, I wasn't sure how recent that data was. Thanks for correcting it. As for the Independents in that state, I believe Lieberman has dominated their vote historically, although having such a liberal win a run-off has never entered the picture before and that could be a factor if Xantar's belief is accurate. Also, I think Lieberman will get a lot of Republican votes for the sheer terror that lamont instills in them. They'll recognize that either Lieberman or Lamont will win and vote for the "lesser of two evils" for lack of a better term.
Still, Lieberman has a better than average chance of winning, and that would make the democrats look quite silly. This is what the Dems didn't see coming, Xanny. I really think they thought Lieberman would just stop running for office if he lost the pre-lim. I just don't understand how the Dems could create such an opportunity for success to become a potential media nightmare and embarrassment.
How the dems could abandon one of their most powerful and visible members over one issue (the Iraq war, and that is the ONE issue) I have no idea. By the time all of this Middle East nonsense is over, American will have two parties: Facists and Communists and I'll be in Australia tossing another shrimp on the God Damn barby.