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Poll: Lamont 54%, Lieberman 41%Posted on Aug 3, 2006With only five days to go before their Aug. 8 Democratic primary, the political novice has opened up a commanding lead on the three-term senator from Connecticut. (Even with the 3% margin of error, Lamont is dusting his opponent.) h/t: Huff Po
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By albiegf13, August 4, 2006 at 9:55 am Link to this comment
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I don’t know who will win the primary, polls or no polls… However I’m hoping for Lamont. I do not vote in CT so I can not contribute. A Lamont win would send a loud and clear message into the Beltway… I think that it is important to send a signal to DC and I can’t think of a better way of doing this. It may already be too late.
Report thisBy Hondo, August 4, 2006 at 8:17 am Link to this comment
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Amicusbriefs, you need psychological help. You persist in your delusion that the 2004 election was stolen, despite all evidence to the contrary. Let me provide you with a list of the people/groups who investigated the 2004 and 2000 elections and who found ZERO evidence that they were stolen:
1. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
2. Civil Rights Division of the Justice Dept.
3. NY Times editorial board
4. Time Magazine
In addition, an absolute army of election lawyers and observers were at the polls in Ohio in 2004, because Ohio was predicted to be a very tight battleground state. Guess what? Bush beat Kerry by 119,000 votes in that state, and that army of lawyers and observers reported no trickery. Bottom line—We won, you lost, get over it!
Report thisPlease, sir, seek medical attention for your paranoid delusions. You’re a mess!
By Maybeline, August 4, 2006 at 7:18 am Link to this comment
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I agree with Hondo. This is also another reason why Democrats keep losing because they pick losers to run. Look at John Kerry Howard Dean and most likely Hillary Clinton. Joe Lieberman is a great Senator who does not always go down the left wing of the party line. He can think for himself. But if the Democrats don’t want him PLEASE send him over to our side Im sure the Republicans would love to have him.Lamont is just another pretty boy that Democrats like to promote
Report thisBy Amicusbriefs, August 3, 2006 at 6:51 pm Link to this comment
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Hondo. your statement that the 2004 polls were inaccurate is a repetition of mainstream media’s whitewashing of another stolen election. Odd that the Bush administration used to validity of the exit polls to support the Ukranians’ challenge to the presidential election there. Then, alakazam, exit polls were faulty because they didn’t tally with bogus machine tallies in the U.S. The odds of those polls being that wrong turned out to be 250 million to one. That kind of mathematical improbability is impossibility. Wake up and smell the dictatorship. Liableman is really old hat. Lamont represents fresh viewpoints, which is where voters have historically gone in mid-terms of a lame-duck. Add to that Bush’s meltdown and you have a Lamont victory, barring more Republican dirty deeds. But then, they’ve got the machine juiced.
Report thisBy ed_tru_lib, August 3, 2006 at 2:36 pm Link to this comment
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Hondo, I’ve read some of your other posts on Israel’s defense in the current attack on it by terrorists, and have generally agreed with you. And if Leiberman does win, and I voted in his state, I would, with no great enthusiasm, support him. But a far more important point has to made here. If, as I hope, Lamont wins, and Leiberman, a good but highly misguided man in his warm embrace of the Rove regime on so many key issues, runs as a third party candidate, he must be defeated, and the true democratic candidate, who has looked, acted and sounded much more like a true democrat than Leiberman has in years, must win.
Report thisThis will not happen if Lamont is marginalized by the media, which will happen if he is somehow perceived as a nutcase naderite extreme leftist with one issue, who just got lucky in the primary. I will make a prediction that this will happen if Connecticut and national democrats, liberals-all progressives, do not quickly forsake Leiberman, and embrace Lamont.
There are so many more issues at stake in the election this November than the mideast conflict, or Iraq. The rightwing extremists must be defeated, and replaced with common sense, progressive, TRADITIONAL democrats.
By Hondo, August 3, 2006 at 12:33 pm Link to this comment
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I’m going to walk out onto the proverbial limb and make a prediction. If I turn out to be wrong, I will freely accept all of your scorn. I predict that Lieberman will defeat Lamont, and that all of these polls the media cites will turn out to be just as accurate as the 2004 presidential exit polls. I just don’t believe that the good people of Connecticut will throw a great statesman like Joe Lieberman out of office.
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