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Jodi Rell, the “Republican” governor of Connecticut, has announced that she will not seek re-election. In a surprising announcement, Mrs. Rell, 63, did not immediately give a specific reason for her decision, saying only, “At some point, you know inside that it is time to begin a new chapter in life.” Her announcement came during [...]
Joe Lieberman continues to tweak Democrats at every opportunity. U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an independent who supports Democrats in Congress despite his backing of the Iraq war, said on Thursday he was not ruling out endorsing a Republican in the White House race. The 2000 Democratic vice presidential candidate said he also wants to see [...]
A gentleman is going around trying to give away stickers with a slash through the name “Rudy McRomney.” He’s not having much luck. Asked by your intrepid reporter why he should want such a sticker, it was explained that good conservatives should be opposed to all the current frontrunners for the GOP nomination (Rudy Giuliani, [...]
Matt Stoler has given up on Congressional Democrats, deciding that, “It’s pretty obvious at this point that the Democratic leadership isn’t serious about ending the war in Iraq. They won’t defund the war, and keep repeating the meme that cutting off funding for the war means cutting off funding for the troops.” As a result, [...]
The NYT gives prominent attention to news that Democrats run relatively conservative candidates in key House seats they are trying to keep or snatch from the Republicans. In their push to win back control of the House, Democrats have turned to conservative and moderate candidates who fit the profiles of their districts more closely than [...]
Joe Lieberman is once again running away with the Connecticut Senate race. Senator Joseph Lieberman (I) has increased his margin over Democrat Ned Lamont by eight points. He now leads the antiwar candidate 50% to 40% (see crosstabs [$]). Thirty-nine percent (39%) are certain of their Lieberman vote, while 30% definitely expect to pull the [...]
The Senate Democrats are hedging their bets, apparently promising Joe Lieberman he will retain his seniority if he’s re-elected as an Independent and joins their caucus. Sen. Joe Lieberman, the longtime Democratic senator from Connecticut running for re-election as an independent, says the party leadership has assured him he would keep his seniority if he [...]
Ned Lamont touts himself as a teacher of inner city kids. The Lieberman camp says that’s stretching the truth. On the campaign stump, Democratic Senate candidate Ned Lamont often tells audiences that he teaches at Harding High School in Bridgeport. On his Web page, Lamont states, “I teach in a 50-year-old inner-city public school,” referring [...]
Writing for USA Today, Bruce Kluger uses some rather strained logic to argue that the power of the blogosphere is largely mythological. His evidence? Bloggers failed to kill of Joe Lieberman’s independent campaign for the Senate and “Snakes on a Plane” had only modest success at the box office. On Aug. 8, Connecticut businessman Ned [...]
An article in today’s NYT discusses the concerns of Democratic leaders that Joe Lieberman’s “independent” senate campaign will bring more Republicans to the polls, hurting the Democrats’ chances of winning a couple of key House races. As Senator Joseph I. Lieberman begins to mount a vigorous and well-financed re-election campaign as an independent, many Connecticut [...]
Joe Lieberman willnot endorse Conneticut’s Democratic candidates for Congress, he announced yesterday. Declaring himself a “non-combatant,” U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, in remarks at a New Haven press event Friday, raised anew the question of whether his “independent” candidacy will help Republicans hold onto three Congressional seats in Connecticut — and control of the U.S. House [...]
Democrat/Connecticut for Lieberman/Republican backed Joe Lieberman called for Donald Rumsfeld’s resignation on yesterday’s “Face the Nation.” Sen. Joe Lieberman, attacked by fellow Democrats as being too close to the White House on the Iraq War, on Sunday called on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign but said the United States cannot “walk away” from the [...]
Jason Horowitz reports that, a source at the National Republican Senatorial Committee confirmed in a phone interview that the party will not help Schlesinger or any other potential Republican candidate in Connecticut, and it now favors a Lieberman victory in November. “We did a poll and there is no way any Republican we put out [...]
Political Wire’s Quote of the Day: “Even if Joe Lieberman leaves the race, it will still be a three-way race, me, Schlesinger and Gold. So it’s going to be crowded.” — Connecticut U.S. Senate candidate Ned Lamont (D), on Hardball, referring to GOP rival Alan Schlesinger’s (R) gambling name, “Alan Gold.” Great line. There’s something [...]
“Independent” Joe Lieberman holds a twelve point lead over Democrat Ned Lamont in the latest Quinnipiac poll, Taegan Goddard reports, thanks to support of 3/4 of Republicans. In Connecticut’s U.S. Senate race, a new Quinnipiac poll finds Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I) leading Ned Lamont (D) among likely voters, 53% to 41%, with Alan Schlesinger (R) [...]
Key Democratic Party leaders are angry at Joe Lieberman for running against their nominee and there is now talk of stripping his seniority within the caucus. A group of Senate Democrats is growing increasingly angry about Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (D-Conn.) campaign tactics since he lost the Democratic primary last week. If he continues to alienate [...]
Republican pollster Rob Autry* contends that Joe Lieberman remains the odds-on favorite to retain his Senate seat despite being beaten in his own party primary and holding a narrow lead in the latest three-way polls. The key to winning Connecticut is not winning Democrats…it’s winning moderates. After all, Republicans do hold three of the five [...]
Although the Republican Party is running a candidate to vy for the Connecticut U.S. Senate seat currently held by Democrat Joe Lieberman, the GOP establishment is refusing to endorse him. Taegan Goddard reports, “White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said this morning that President Bush will not endorse Connecticut U.S. Senate candidate Alan Schlesinger (R) [...]
In today’s Hartford Courant, Sen. Ted Kennedy authored an op-ed responding to comments made by Vice President Dick Cheney about Ned Lamont’s victory in last week’s Democratic primary in Connecticut. Here’s the bulk of what Kennedy had to say: The comments he made on the result of the Connecticut Democratic primary – that it might [...]
Scott Lemieux cites several bloggers on the right touting yesterday’s announcement that a mega 9/11 reprise had been foiled as evidence that the war on terror has been a success, that liberals are fuddy duddys, and Ned Lamont is a joke. He argues the idea that “This whole war on terror thing is a phony [...]
Rudy Giuliani was on H&C tonight to weigh in on the news of today’s foiled terror plot and the war on terrorism in general. And one thing is for sure, unlike lots of politicians, Giuliani isn’t running away from President Bush or the war in Iraq; he calls the President’s decision to go on the [...]
Interesting how The New York Times decided to frame Lieberman’s comments today as him “seizing” on today’s news to “attack” Ned Lamont: Senator Joseph I. Lieberman seized on the terror arrests in Britain today to attack his Democratic rival, Ned Lamont, saying that Mr. Lamont’s goals for ending the war in Iraq would constitute a [...]
Taegan Goddard has an early look at Rasmussen’s numbers on the Connecticut general election poll, believed to be the first survey since Tuesday’s primary. Rasmussen Reports began polling the Ned Lamont-Joe Lieberman general election match-up last night. After 375 interviews, preliminary numbers show Lieberman ahead of Lamont by 3 percentage points. Republican candidate Alan Schlesinger [...]
Ned Lamont flanked by fellow irate moderates Al Sharption and Jesse Jackson Martin Peretz has written a scathing post at The Plank on Ned Lamont’s buddies on the dais: So Ned Lamont did defeat Joe Lieberman. But Lamont won by just under four percentage points, a far cry from the huge margins he’d captured in [...]
He’s doesn’t seem to be doing all that bad considering. Lieberman makes it known that he’s in it until November and argues that he’s going to be the candidate that will fight against the partisanship which helped move his opponent to victory and unify Connecticut voters of all political stripes. Lieberman also argues that Lamont’s [...]
Taegan Goddard has obtained the CBS/NYT exit poll results from the Lamont-Lieberman race. The results are somewhat surprising. Overall, 78% disapproved of the decision to go to war in Iraq and, of those, 60% went for Lamont. Going in, I’d have guessed both numbers would be higher, especially the second. That Lamont only got 60% [...]
WaPo’s Jonathan Weisman sees a trend: In the shadow of the Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut, angry voters in three states showed their discontent last night by unseating two incumbents and choosing a candidate who campaigned against his primary opponent’s bipartisan past. The defeat of Georgia’s outspoken Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D) and Michigan moderate Rep. [...]
Markos Moulitsas Zuniga rightfully gloats over last night’s victory by Ned Lamont over Joe Lieberman. While it has seemed inevitable for a few weeks now, it wasn’t long ago that it seemed unthinkable. Indeed, many of us were chuckling over Kos’ appearance in a Lamont television ad and making fun of the netroots for whooping [...]
7:45: The polls are set to close in about 15 minutes here in CT but the general consensus is that it’s going to be a while until the results are known. In the meantime, I’ll be updating this post with all the info I can throw your way and probably some video highlights (or lowlights) [...]
Via The Hotline: According to Lieberman’s campaign communications director, Marion Steinfels, “Yep, we’ve been hacked.” “There’s a coordinated effort to overloaded our bandwith and that has brought down our website and our e-mail,” she said. The attack began around mid-morning, she said. Steinfels said the company that hosts the campaign website is investigating. It’s the [...]
Over at The Corner today, Byron York wonders if a Lamont victory tomorrow will “truly be the Triumph of the Blogs” and provides some interesting numbers concerning the netroots and Lamont’s campaign war chest: A new poll of the Lamont-Lieberman race has Ned Lamont ahead in Connecticut, 51-45. A look at the lefty blogs shows [...]
TIME Magazine’s new Washington Editor Ana Marie Cox of Wonkette-fame has a new feature called Ana Log in which she allegedly “translates the Beltway scene.” You be the judge, but I find it neither insightful nor amusing: •DONALD RUMSFELD, facing the Senate Armed Services Committee, claims that “you’d have a dickens of a time trying [...]
A Greenwich Time headline proclaims “Lieberman shows signs cutting into Lamont lead, poll shows.” The story, however, does not necessarily support that attention-grabbing title. U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, fighting for his political survival, appears to be cutting into challenger Ned Lamont’s lead the day before Connecticut’s Democratic primary election, according to a Quinnipiac University poll [...]
Gallup analyst Lydia Saad looks at a poll taken last week that shows Joe Lieberman is more popular with Republicans than Democrats, not only in Connecticut but nationally. U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman has faced mounting difficulties among fellow Democrats in his home state of Connecticut over his pro-Iraq war stance, possibly culminating in his defeat [...]
Stuart Rothenberg challenges the conventional wisdom that Joe Lieberman is a shoe-in for re-election if, as now looks likely, he loses to Ned Lamont in Tuesday’s primary. A resounding Lamont victory would make it very difficult for Democratic elected officials (and for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) to stick with Lieberman in a three-way general [...]
A rather innocuous HuffPo post by Jane Hamsher yesterday, entitled “On the Ground with Lamont/Lieberman,” was illustrated with a PhotoShopped image of Joe Lieberman and Bill Clinton depicted at right. Michelle Malkin and a slew of conservative bloggers jumped on it yesterday and the image was quickly and quietly removed. Oddly, the bottom of the [...]
The Republican Party now feels it has a legitimate shot to snag the Senate seat belonging to Joe Lieberman. It appears that Bob Dole is the key to making it happen. And, no, he’s not going to be on the ticket. Last week’s Rasmussen Poll showing Ned Lamont winning handily the Democratic primary and in [...]
If it wasn’t already, Alan Schlesinger’s campaign for Joe Lieberman’s Senate seat is toast. Kevin Rennie: The Hartford Courant sent a bunker bomb in to Connecticut Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Alan Schlesinger’s flagging campaign today with revelations that the former legislator was successfully sued for thousands of dollars in casino debts he ran up in [...]
Joe Lieberman is now lagging former unknown Ned Lamont among likely Democratic primary voters. Sen. Joe Lieberman, under fire from activists in his own party, has lost ground to his challenger and is narrowly trailing him for the first time in their race for the Democratic nomination, a new poll released Thursday shows. Businessman Ned [...]
*Updated Below The Fold The festivities begin in 5 and I’ve got my precious with me to liven it up a little more. To whet your appetite, Allah Pundit has a little preview. 7:02: Rules of engagement. 7:04: Lieberman: I’m running on my 18 years of service to Connecticut and Lamont is running against me [...]
Underdog Ned Lamont is running neck-and-neck with Joe Lieberman in the latest Rasmussen poll. Senator Joe Lieberman (D) might be better off skipping the Democratic Primary and running as an Independent this November. The latest Rasmussen Reports survey of the Primary Election shows Lieberman leading challenger Ned Lamont by just six percentage points, 46% to [...]
Via Memeorandum, I noted with amusement a post entitled “Ned Lamont Deserves Enthusiastic GLBT Support” by Pachacutec at Firedoglake. While I have no doubt that a theoretical Senator Lamont would be more predisposed to vote for legislation favoring gays, lesbians, and transgendered persons than an actual Senator Joe Lieberman, one would think Lamont will need [...]
Lieberman Wins Nomination, But Lamont Forces Primary! is the headline of a story in the Hartford Courant describing the rather unusual events of last evening. U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman was nominated for a fourth term by state Democrats Friday night, but his anti-war challenger garnered enough delegates to force a primary in August. Backers of [...]
Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, the proprietor of DailyKos, is seen in ads for Ned Lamont, who is running against Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primaries. Presumably, he is meant to represent the “netroots.” While I’m clearly not the target demographic, I find them rather strange and am not sure why they would motivate someone on the [...]
ConnecticutBLOG reports that Joe Lieberman has refused to rule out an independent run for re-election this November if he is defeated in the primary. Will I always be a member of the Democratic party? I hope there’s not a primary. I’m confident if there is one, I’ll win it, but I’m not gonna rule out [...]