Lieberman Up, Debate Has No Effect
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in ElectionsApparently, even if Lieberman did lose the debate, it hasn’t mattered. He’s up by 17 points over Lamont, and Schlesinger’s numbers haven’t moved at all.
Lieberman, running as an independent after losing the Aug. 8 Democratic primary to Lamont, leads the Greenwich businessman 52 percent to 35 percent among Connecticut likely voters in the poll released Friday. Republican Alan Schlesinger trailed with 6 percent, and 7 percent were undecided.A similar poll released on September 28 showed Lieberman with a 10-point lead.
And one last note about that debate:
The debate between Lieberman and Lamont on Monday was their first since the August primary. Among those in the poll who watched the debate or read or heard about it, only 3 percent said it changed their minds.“Ned Lamont needed to score a knockout in the debates to catch Sen. Joseph Lieberman, but he apparently didn’t lay a glove on him,” poll director Douglas Schwartz said.
So much for the “power” of the netroots…
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October 20th, 2006 at 2:07 pm
You might not like the netroots, but they were the driving force behind Lieberman’s primary loss. IMO, that is a farily sizable accomplishment. If CT had a sore loser law or a half way decent Republican nominee for Senate, Joe Lieberman would be semi-retired from the Senate right now. Unfortunately, CT has neither of those and Lieberman got a mulligan.
October 20th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
Well, my opinion about the netroots is two-fold. First, I respect what they’ve built, but second, I don’t think it will ultimately be very effective at getting people elected. It may sway some journalists here and there, but, as Markos of Daily Kos says he wants to do, will it be as effective as the Republican Noise Machine? Maybe. But honestly, who wants another noise machine?
Much like Howard Dean, Ned Lamont is turning out to be a paper tiger who isn’t ready for prime time. His message isn’t resonanting, and I think that speaks volumes about the ultimate effectiveness of the left-wing blogosphere.
October 20th, 2006 at 7:12 pm
Every couple of days Lamont releases another ad. They post a link at Kos or MyDD and the comments praise it to the rafters and swear it’s the greatest thing ever. Then Ned drops another two points in the polls and the Netroots geniuses have to come up with yet another theory of how they’re going to win despite being 10 points down. . . 12 points . . . 14 points . . .
It’s be funny if it weren’t sad.
Lamont has run a pitiful campaign and Lieberman — who I can’t stand — is going to clean his clock.
October 20th, 2006 at 9:44 pm
Lieberman is one democrat this centrist Republican would have NO problem voting for! In fact, I wrote him in for the last presidential election. For all the good that did…
October 22nd, 2006 at 5:03 am
Lieberman is NOT a democrat. He’s at best a DINO…he backs the neocon/Bush agenda far too frequently for him to ever be considered a democrat, or a decent human being.