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Primary: Lieberman vs Lamont


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The answer to that would be ignore us and lie to us.

For a politician, Lebierman I believe has been very candid and up front on a lot of issues. Ignore us? How so? How quickly people forget, that the sub base was about to close, fortunately his clout in the senate saved it for us. If Lamont was in there at that time, we would be talking about, what to do with the land at the old sub base.

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I can't stand Lamont. It's the popular point of view on this board.... I think he's a hypocritical jackass and the fact that he received so much support from special interests from outside the state while at the same time criticizing congress for having 63 lobbyists per congressman is an outrage. What are the campaign finance laws like? Could a "self made man" like our least favorite JP Morgan millionaire heir fund most of his campaign? If so, then I don't see how he could be so against some special interests, while taking money from others.

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Why haven't I heard anything about the republican running for this seat? I don't even know who it is, but whoever it is - their campaign must be loving this! Lieberman could very likely split the democratic vote with Lamont, allowing the republican to win with a minority of overall votes.

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Why haven't I heard anything about the republican running for this seat? I don't even know who it is, but whoever it is - their campaign must be loving this! Lieberman could very likely split the democratic vote with Lamont, allowing the republican to win with a minority of overall votes.

in the races for some of the CT congress-people, you never heard about the other guy running because they're usually a nobody. take the new haven area US representative race for example. rosa delauro is the current person in that role... she basically has gone unopposed the last few times she's run (obviously that's not entirely true, but the person running against her is a basic nobody that you never hear about until you see their name on the ballot). the same has gone for the senate races in CT in the past.

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The current republican candidate goes by many names. His legal name is Alan Schlesinger, however he also gambles under an alias at CT casinos as Alan Gold and was banished from Atlantic City for card counting. He stands no chance and Gov Rell and other top GOPers have been begging him to drop out. But he's stubborn like Lieberman. So if anything, Lamont will win the Dem vote and Joe and Alan Gold will split the GOP vote. Lamont will more than likely cruise to victory now with the Dems in congress lining up behind the Democratic candidate, that being Lamont.

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The national GOP is trying to get that Republican guy to step down so they can put in a more powerful candidate. They would love for Lieberman to pull enough votes from Lamont so their candidate would win.

i'm not so sure lieberman's votes will mostly be split between him and lamont... i have a feeling he'll take needed votes from both the dems and republicans so that he ends up winning. i don't see him losing in november.

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It's gonna get ugly for Joe though. He has an uphill battle. His entire party is lining up to throw him under the bus right now and his funding is in jeopordy of drying up if he is percieved as an underdog. Lamont will now have Democratic funds and his own money.

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So if anything, Lamont will win the Dem vote and Joe and Alan Gold will split the GOP vote. Lamont will more than likely cruise to victory now with the Dems in congress lining up behind the Democratic candidate, that being Lamont.

I totally diagree with your assesment. If anything Joe will win. Why? Because Lamont only got a little over half the Democratic vote. Joe got the other half of the Democratic vote, lastly many Republicans in state have voted for Lieberman is prior elections. More so than the Republican candiate. Add Lieberman's Democratic base and many Ct Republicans, and Lamont will have trouble. With this being the case, I highly doubt Lamont will win.

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I totally diagree with your assesment. If anything Joe will win. Why? Because Lamont only got a little over half the Democratic vote. Joe got the other half of the Democratic vote, lastly many Republicans in state have voted for Lieberman is prior elections. More so than the Republican candiate. Add Lieberman's Democratic base and many Ct Republicans, and Lamont will have trouble. With this being the case, I highly doubt Lamont will win.

We'll see. I really doubt most dems are really willing to lose the seat to a non dem like Joe is now.

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he's anything but a republican...

I didn't say Republican, I said non dem. Democrats are hungry and tired of being kicked around and I find it hard to believe that we would allow the seat to go to someone no longer affiliated with the Democratic party. That's just how I see it. I could be wrong. We'll have to wait and see how this goes with the early polls and whatnot to have any real idea of how this will turn out.

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It does matter when the leaders of the party start begging Dems not to vote for Joe. Most good Dems will at least here those arguments out. He did not go into the primary with that type of adversity. Now it's there and I'm very interested to see how he responds to it.

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We'll see. I really doubt most dems are really willing to lose the seat to a non dem like Joe is now.

It's not about willing to lose. The voters ultimately decide the candiates faith. The makeup of the race is making it interesting. And now that there might be a green party candiate thrown into the mix, it will only diminish Lamont's chances. If the race was only between Lamont and Schleinger, then I would say Lamont has this one locked up.

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It's not about willing to lose. The voters ultimately decide the candiates faith. The makeup of the race is making it interesting. And now that there might be a green party candiate thrown into the mix, it will only diminish Lamont's chances. If the race was only between Lamnont and Schleinger, then I would say Lamont has this one locked up.

exactly... and i will not be surprised if the dems want lieberman back if he does win... either that or he'll be a good start for a third party in CT...

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All I said is it's gonna be tough for Joe and Lamont is in a pretty good place considering the underdog that he was when he started his campaign. I can only congratulate him, he got it done and I don't feel his politics were dirty. Joe talked about him way more and way worse with personal attacks. All Lamont said was the truth, that Joe has done a good job and served us well on a variety of issues, but right now he has not done enough to fight the Bush White House. That is sentiment that I really and truly wholeheartedly agree with and that's what Joe's up against.

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