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Skriven 2006-08-17 11:26:36 av Sean Dennis (1:18/200)
Ärende: More Lieberman
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Hello, All.

Just read this off of Reuters:

Lieberman leads opponents in new poll

2 hours, 44 minutes ago (as of 11:26 AM EDT)

U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (news, bio, voting record), a three-term Democrat
now running as an independent candidate, leads the man who beat him in last
week's primary vote by 12 points in a three-way race, a poll released on
Thursday shows.

The latest Quinnipiac University poll, conducted between August 10-14, shows
Lieberman leads Democrat Ned Lamont, a wealthy businessman with little
political experience who has played on anti-war sentiment, by 53 percent to 41
percent among likely voters in November's election. The Republican candidate
Alan Schlesinger drew 4 percent, the poll shows.

Democratic voters selected Lamont as their candidate on August 8 with 52
percent of the vote after an increasingly bitter race dominated by Lieberman's
support for the Iraq war.

Lieberman vowed to stay in the race as an independent candidate in order to
face Lamont and Schlesinger in the general election in November.

The survey found that Lieberman polled best among likely Republican voters,
leading the others with 75 percent of the vote compared with Lamont's 13
percent and Schlesinger's 10 percent.

"Senator Lieberman's support among Republicans is nothing short of amazing,"
Douglas Schwartz, the university's polling director said in a statement. "As
long as Lieberman maintains this kind of support among Republicans while
holding onto a significant number of Democratic votes, the veteran senator will
be hard to beat."

Likely voters said by a 53 percent to 40 percent margin that Lieberman, the
Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate in 2000 and once a presidential
candidate himself, deserves to be re-elected.

(Rather interesting, don't you think?  I think the Democrats really shot
themselves in the foot with this one...)

Later,
Sean

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