Rasmussen-CT: Lieberman ONLY 2 POINTS Ahead Of Lamont

[kpete]

LIEBERMAN LOSING GROUND
by JOEL1954
Tue Aug 22, 2006

Here is the latest from behind the curtain of Rasmussen premium membership.Rasmussen did a poll monday and right now it is Lieberman 45, Lamont 43, the gambler 6. Not much information available, all he says is lieberman still has good favorables but is down.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/8/22/8364/21841

[Kahuna]

1. Of course.. I have no doubt that lieberman's alliance with Rove

and cheney will be his ultimate undoing. Face it, when bush, cheney, rove and ken mehlman want you, something is definately rotten in the state of CT.

[The Backlash Cometh]

30. Do you think there are Republicans in CT who won't vote for

Lieberman under any circumstance?

[Kahuna]

38. I don't understand the question.

S'plain please.

[endarkenment]

2. Said it before, saying it again

That pompous arrogant asshat Lieberman runs a pompous arrogant campaign that starts high and ends low.

However now that he has the full support of Rove: Team America we should expect an endless stream of directed media bullshit, swiftboating, and dirty tricks all directed at putting the future secretary of war back in the senate so he can yield his seat to a republican.

[jsamuel]

3. Lamont will win by making more points between now and Nov.

[Nickster]

4. This is what we were expecting. Lieberman falling down a well after

the primary. I'd still like to see some more Democratic Party pressure to get him out all together.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. I said this before

dweeberman would have a temporary boost simply because of all that post-loss coverage. Then, people would tire of his schtick. They would appreciate the professional calm and quiet from Lamont, and after considering the real issues in the race, realize that they don't want Liebs any more.

Lamont's team is handling this perfectly. Watch for Lieb's numbers to fall and with that fall, watch for MSM to nose into other campaigns and issues. If Liebs is down by more than 5 pts, the newsies will quit covering him.

[fjc]

6. Wonder when this poll was done,

like perhaps b4 Lieberman began garnering all that Republican support.

[calico1]

9. I doubt that.

Why would Rasmussen wait until now to release the results of an old poll?

[fjc]

12. Yet we have another thread here showing something very different.

[calico1]

14. Can you point me to that thread?

I can't seem to find a thread with a different poll.

[fjc]

16. Here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1959277

[calico1]

19. You pointed me to THIS thread.

:crazy:

[fjc]

21. Then look at the top post in this thread. Same one.

[calico1]

22. I am still not getting it.

You said there was another poll showing different results yet you are referring me to this thread with this poll. :shrug: Maybe I misunderstood you. The only other poll I am aware of is the Quinnipiac poll which was taken right after the primary. Is that what you were referring to?

[fjc]

24. Daily Kos is reporting a Rasmussen poll.

That is what the top post links you to.

[calico1]

26. And you posted:

"Yet we have another thread here showing something different." That is what I was asking you about.

[fjc]

28. Well, I meant that thread regarding Rasmussen.

Sorry if that was confusing.

[ariesgem]

37. Here's an ARG poll that came out today that shows

similar results:

http://americanresearchgroup.com/ctsenate/

>>>>snip

Joe Lieberman and Ned Lamont are in a statistical tie in the race for United States Senate in Connecticut according to the latest survey from the American Research Group. Among likely voters in November, 44% say they would vote for Lieberman, 42% say they would vote for Lamont, 3% say they would vote for Alan Schlesinger, and 11% are undecided.

>>>>>snip

Here's the link about information on the latest Rasmussen poll

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/8/22/111212/953

[calico1]

7. And it's still August...

This is very bad news for Lieberman. Of course now he will get more whiny, nasty and negative which will bring his numbers down even more.

[Poiuyt]

13. What calendar are you using?

It's August in my part of the country

[calico1]

17. Duh....

:crazy:

Corrected it.

[napi21]

8. And there's still 77 days to go! Ifeel very positive that Ned will win

by a comfortable margin. I only wish I lived in Ct. so I could vote for him.

[TlalocW]

10. As soon as Lieberman turns nasty

We'll know that his internal polling is showing him in trouble - just like before.

TlalocW

[bigtree]

11. of course, the other poll was bullshit

there's still the question of whether republicans will bother to come out and vote for lieberman as some say they will.

[William769]

15. I sent a donation to the Lamont campaign

I may be a thousand miles away from CT, but I want to put Lieberman even farther away from me.

[helderheid]

27. I did too - and I'm in Utah :)

[warrens]

18. Not measured...

How many Repukes are just going to stay home election day. They may get a kick out of busting Dem chops by "backing" Lieberman, but how many are really going to go out and vote for him? All we need is Bush and Cheney to keep backing him, and Lamont wins easily. Or Joe drops out. Same thing.

[jsamuel]

20. Yeah, and how many Democrats will get a kick out of kicking Lieberman out?

[calico1]

25. I don't doubt that many Republicans here

would be perfectly happy with Lieberman. After all, he has proven himself as a true Republican. The question is though, will they turn out en masse to vote for him? Do they like him THAT much? I think one thing that could bring a lot of Repubs out to vote is if the Gov. race tightens. But so far I don't really see that happening. With Rell still popular and Bush the ass that he is, how motivated will Republicans be to come out and vote for Joe? That is the question.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

29. I find it entirely laughable....

that Repubs who made so much fun of Lieberman during the */Gore 2000 travesty would go pull a lever for him. Idiots.

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

40. They may go to t he polls to vote for our Repub governor,

though - and vote for Lieberman . I think it is going to be a verrry close race

[Douglas Carpenter]

23. now that sounds a lot better

:applause: :bounce:

[90-percent]

31. Connecticut

I'm in Ct and voted for Ned in the primary and will of course vote for him in Nov. And prob give him some money and get some signs.

And I will also be sending some $ to Dr. Bob Bowman down in Fla., who is running for Congress down there. He is totally smart and was career military and he really wants to investigate 9/11 for real. I think he's got an uphill battle down there to win.

Hopefully up here in CT Joe will go into full overt Republican self destruct mode.

Nutmeggers need to show the rest of the Country we are progressive and anti-war and especially ANTI-BUSH!

-85% Jimmy

[bigdarryl]

32. American research polls have the same exact numbers

And i think what has happened to Lieberman is those dems that supported him in the primary are dropping there support for him because he's talking more and more like a REPUBLICAN!! and has gotten support from repubs. He willnot win with just republican votes. and I think the more the independents hear Lamont the more they will like him.

[DemonFighterLives]

33. Rasmussen runs high for repukes anyway

Probably means that Joe is actually behind.
They have dubby at 42% while most others are reporting w in the 30's.

The last time a righty threw Rasmussen in my face they were 10 points above the average of the polls on Pollkatz.

Give it up Joe (party of one)!
:dem:

[Warren DeMontague]

34. SCHLESINGER IS THE ONLY "PRO-LIFE" CANDIDATE IN THE RACE!

Just thought I would remind some of our trollin' visitors of that fact.

[cascadiance]

35. And the only xenophobic "anti-amnesty" immigration candidate too...

Schlesinger is a little less rabit about being anti-abortion, but he is pretty strong about supporting the House bill on immigration, something that neither Lamont or Lieberman have taken a stand on. I have to believe more than 3% of the residents in Connecticut (those hardcore Republicans) support the House bill position on immigration instead of the "guest worker" program. If not, then the Dems should use that nationwide as a way of showing that other races (like Busby/Bilbray) shouldn't be decided on this as a single issue. Granted Busby/Bilbray is closer to the southern border, but still it pokes holes in the idea that immigration is a "one issue" stand that will gain people votes everyplace. Unless of course Schlesinger starts picking more of these votes up, in which case the split will screw Lieberman.

[Warren DeMontague]

36. I think if Schlesinger starts polling above 10%, Joe is fucked.

Just my un-scientific political analysis, mind you. :)

[NewJeffCT]

42. Most CT Republicans are pro-choice

even though we have a very high percentage of Catholics statewide.

[Warren DeMontague]

43. Yeah, but if you peel enough of the pro-life ones away from Joe

he's screwed.

[pnwmom]

39. In that poll, Lieberman and Lamone TIED. The race is too close to call.

That two point spread is within the margin of error of any poll.

[kohodog]

41. Lamont will prevail

Lieberman votes 90% Democratic, and even in CT I think many Republicans will not be able to pull the lever for Joe. They man not vote for "Gold" guy, but they may move over to the next race without voting for either.

Joe has no ground campaign other than hired out-of-staters, and we don't know what his financial status will be unless the DCCC and DLC types with hold from giving to Ned and the Republicans and special interests pour money in. If it is a dead heat now, Joe will be dead come November. And after his appearance on Glenn Beck today, this scumbag should rot in hell.

Check this out from TPM Cafe: http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2006/aug/22/ct_sen_lieberman_tell_right_wing_radio_host_were_in_world_war_iii

[Cha]

44. So lIEman is a glen beck fan?

This deserves a post of its own, thank you.

"Lieberman agreed with virtually everything Beck said, and claimed he was "proud" of the conservative host. Lieberman agreed with Beck that we're in the middle of World War III. Lieberman agreed with Beck when he said that there was a risk that the "entire Middle East will be on fire." And Lieberman agreed with Beck when he said that the real reason we invaded Iraq wasn't over WMD but because we wanted to "pop the head of the snake in Iran." You need to be a member to listen -- but we've supplied some excerpts after the jump. You won't want to miss this one.



Here are some excerpts from the interview:

BECK: I am so afraid that we are going to see Lebanon fall into the hands totally of Hezbollah...that you're gonna start to see Iran come into Iraq. The entire Middle East is gonna be on fire. And we are going to find ourselves like Ray Nagin found himself with buses in a parking lot.

lieberman: Yeah."