Lieberman Pulls Ahead Of Bush In Connecticut Poll (53%-42%)

[arcos]

Lieberman Pulls Ahead Of Bush In Connecticut Poll

HAMDEN, Conn. -- President George W. Bush, battered by daily killings of U.S. troops in postwar Iraq and a struggling economy, trails Sen. Joe Lieberman in Connecticut for the first time, according to a poll released Friday.

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Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, another Democrat seeking the presidential nomination, leads Bush 48 percent to 44 percent in Connecticut.

Among Connecticut voters, Bush narrowly leads three other Democrats seeking their party's nomination, according to the poll. Former Gen. Wesley Clark trails Bush 44 percent to 46 percent.

Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont, and Richard Gephardt, the Democrats' former leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, both trail Bush with 45 percent to the president's 47 percent.

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http://www.nbc30.com/politics/2546823/detail.html

[joeybee12]

1. Anyone will beat Bush in CT

The state has been veering Dem for a while now, the Repukes there are all country-club Repukes, and so they loathe what the right has done to the national party.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. Unless the Democratic Candidate screws up BIG TIME....

the Dem's will win CT 60%D to 40%R!

[jiacinto]

3. Of course he is ahead

It's his home state.

[Kahuna]

4. Clark "trails" bush 44 to 46. These reporters are getting worse...

Where the f*ck do they get their training?

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[RUMMYisFROSTED]

9. Although I think the poll is meaningless....

44 is less than 46. :shrug:

[DemDogs]

5. No offense - but it does not matter

Lieberman will never be the nominee. He has no way to get there.

[GOPBasher]

7. We must have Connecticut in the bag early.

If we aren't winning that state by at least 10%, we aren't even close nationwide. Gore won by almost 18%.

[robbedvoter]

8. Lieberman - for people who like bush but don't think he's Jewish

enough...Jon Stewart
Here's the guy who establishes litmus tests for being a Democrat:

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/34/news-ireland.php

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[Kolesar]

10. If LA Weekly is true, Holy Joe is 100 times the asshole I knew he was

Thanks for sharing that, robbedvoter!

Some excerpts:

Take the 1988 campaign in which Lieberman won a U.S. Senate seat by defeating liberal GOPer Lowell Weicker. In that campaign, Lieberman attacked Weicker — who espoused views Lieberman once held — from the right. He was so conservative in that race that William F. Buckley Jr., founder of the conservative National Review and a Connecticut native, formed a political action committee to raise money for Lieberman. For example, Lieberman redbaited Weicker for opposing the trade embargo against Cuba (and, then as later, raked in significant campaign cash from ultraright Cuban exiles).

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Prayer in the schools? Holy Joe lined up with the GOP’s religious zealots to push it repeatedly in the Senate. Subsidizing parochial schools at the expense of public education? Holy Joe has sponsored legislation to give parents vouchers to send their kids to parochial schools, draining money from the public schools to which most Americans send their kids. And Lieberman just last year joined with rabid gay basher Rick Santorum — the Pennsylvania Republican who compared same-sex love to bestiality and incest — to co-sponsor George Bush’s faith-based initiatives, praising Bush’s “leadership” in tearing down the constitutional barrier between church and state. The faith-based initiatives turned out in practice to be a political-patronage operation for churches and ministers that support Bush. Lieberman’s censorious partnership with slot-machine addict Bill Bennett in attacking the entertainment industry has been widely publicized. Less well known, however, are Lieberman’s ties to a skein of religious-right and conservative organizations. Holy Joe has been closely involved with The Empowerment Network (TEN), which proclaims that it “provides the winning edge” on “the unleashing of faith-based initiatives and cultural remedies.” Lieberman and his buddy Rick Santorum are listed by TEN as Empowerment Caucus chairmen.

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Lieberman, in 1995, joined with Lynne Cheney (OMG, WTF!?)— the wife of Dubya’s veep and a longtime left-baiter of academics in universities — to found the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA, formerly the National Alumni Forum), whose mission was to fight “political correctness” on campus. ACTA, which has helped whip up anti-intellectual hysteria in the post-9/11 period, came to public prominence when it issued and widely publicized a McCarthyite blacklist of 117 so-called “anti-American academics” who questioned America’s infallibility in wartime. One of them was Douglas J. Bennet, the president of Wesleyan University in Connecticut. After this incident was aired in the Connecticut press, Holy Joe expressed “regrets” to the university prez and asked ACTA to stop identifying him as a “founder” on its Web site. But have-it-both-ways Joe didn’t resign from the group.