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| Lieberman leads opponents in new poll |
| 2006-08-17 |
| Wonder if Jimmy Carter's heard about this? BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a three-term Democrat now running as an independent candidate, leads the man who beat him in last week's primary vote by 12 points in a three-way race, a poll released on Thursday shows. The latest Quinnipiac University poll, conducted between August 10-14, shows Lieberman leads Democrat Ned Lamont, a wealthy businessman with little political experience who has played on anti-war sentiment, by 53 percent to 41 percent among likely voters in November's election. The Republican candidate Alan Schlesinger drew 4 percent, the poll shows. Democratic voters selected Lamont as their candidate on August 8 with 52 percent of the vote after an increasingly bitter race dominated by Lieberman's support for the Iraq war. Lieberman vowed to stay in the race as an independent candidate in order to face Lamont and Schlesinger in the general election in November. The survey found that Lieberman polled best among likely Republican voters, leading the others with 75 percent of the vote compared with Lamont's 13 percent and Schlesinger's 10 percent. "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." Likely voters said by a 53 percent to 40 percent margin that Lieberman, the Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate in 2000 and once a presidential candidate himself, deserves to be re-elected. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #4 I've been paying attention to Joe since 2000. My feelings are to trust this fella for the defense of the U.S. |
| Posted by: Xenophon 2006-08-17 17:52 |
| #3 I suspect a great many people voting Republican right now are voting War on Terror only. I know I am. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-08-17 17:39 |
| #2 I hope this race gets really nasty. It certainly has the potential. |
| Posted by: TomAnon 2006-08-17 16:41 |
| #1 Senator Lieberman's support among Republicans is nothing short of amazing Why can't the Trunks do what the libs do? Vote based on a single issue. If I lived in Conn., I'd vote for Joe, but it's be more of a vote against Lamont, and the way he got nominated. And a vote against Soros, and Mikey Moore, et al. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2006-08-17 16:02 |