Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 9/10-12. Likely voters. MoE 4% (No trend lines)
For whom did you vote for in the 2006 race for U.S. Senate, Ned Lamont, the Democrat, Alan Schlesinger, the Republican, or Joe Lieberman, an Independent?
If you could vote again for U.S. Senate, would you vote for Ned Lamont, the Democrat, Alan Schlesinger, the Republican, or Joe Lieberman, an Independent?
Lieberman
Lamont
Schlesinger
All
40
48
10
Dem
25
72
3
Rep
69
7
24
Ind
38
49
9
All of the positive movement for Lamont comes from Democrats and Independents. Lieberman actually slightly improved his standing among Republicans.
This show, I think, the importance of having an honest and open debate about residual troops in Iraq before the next Democratic nominee is decided. Many Democrats and Independents who voted for Lieberman now regret that vote, almost certainly because they feel suckered on Iraq. While I oppose residual forces, I will have far less of a problem with a Democratic nominee who supports them as long as the people who voted for that candidate knew what they were supporting. I don't think that happened in Connecticut, as the media and most of the Democratic establishment never took Lieberman to task for his faux anti-war rhetoric in the general election. I don't want the same thing to happen nationwide in 2008. I want Democrats to know what their nominee will do in Iraq, or otherwise we could end up regretting out nomination down the road, ala many Democrats and Independents in Connecticut.
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