Rasmussen Report on Lieberman-Lamont race

[Larkspur]

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2006/State%20Polls/June%202006/connecticutsenate06162006.htm

The size of Senator Joseph Lieberman's advantage in his reelection bid depends on which general-election race Connecticut voters are asked about.

The latest Rasmussen Reports poll of the race shows likely voters awarding Lieberman an almost-forty-point lead, 61% to 23%, over Republican Alan Schlesinger, assuming Lieberman runs as a Democrat.

When voters consider him as an Independent, though, he collects just 44% support, versus Democrat Ned Lamont's 29% and Schlesinger's 15%. Our April survey showed Lamont winning only 20% in a three-way scenario.

The reluctance of many Democrats to support Lieberman was highlighted early in the campaign season when our December poll found former Senator and Governor Lowell Weicker picking up 32% of the vote while running as an independent against Lieberman.

Due to the anger many Democrats have about Lieberman’s continuing support for the war in Iraq, it is not clear whether Lieberman the three-term Senator will win re-nomination from his own party. The latest Rasmussen Reports poll on the Primary Race shows Lieberman nursing a six-point lead over Lamont. Lieberman had a 20-point lead over the challenger in our previous survey.

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Lamont has made significant gains in the 3-way race and that along with the primary polls should get better for Lamont.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. This will be an interesting race

and one that, I feel, will show how anti-Iraq war the people are (I'm assuming that there will be no voting hijinks in CT). Whoever wins the race in the Democratic primary MUST be supported by all Dems, even if it is Joemomentum. Otherwise, we are as hypocritical as many repukes.

[Cosmocat]

2. I HATE it ...

But, the way it looks now, Rs would turn their backing to him if he went indepedent just too make sure it fell out of Ds control ... Not a reason not to give the turd the boot ...