Originally posted by: ProfJohn
What happened to Lamont winning???
I could have sworn there were so many people on here jumping up and down with glee when he won the primary.
Now it looks like Liberman is going to win by 10+ points.
If the forums weren't so slow I'd go dig up some quotes just for fun.
Go back to my posts in the Lieberman-Lamont thread-I always said this is going to be a tight race and that (unfortunately) Lieberman has an excellent chance of winning. I'm from CT and am very familiar with this race. Since the primary Lieberman has gotten enormous sums of money from GOP sources, as well as advice from Rove and defacto support from Bush, Cheney and Rell (GOP governor of CT). I always said this was going to be a tight race and it is going to be. What I called wrong was the amount of support the official GOP candidate was going to get-I was thinking 10-15% and he's currently hovering around 4%. The GOP candidate has raised approximately $250,000 and runs no TV ads (Lieberman and Lamont have spent $25M between them to date, with Lieberman leading in the spending race).
The race is now narrowing. The first three-candidate debate was last night and the GOP candidate gave a stellar performance (one of those swing for the bleachers jobs). Every vote he gets will come out of Lieberman's pocket. Presently the gap between Lieberman and Lamont is 8%, not 10%, and I predict it will be half that (or less) in a week.
Whether Lieberman wins is how much effective support the GOP can give him, and how fed up we CT voters are with the Lieberman/GOP wing. We have a number of very tight Congressional races in CT this year, and it is lookiing like we will turn out several GOP incumbents (Shays, Simmons and Nancy Johnson are all GOP incumbents and all running the race of their lives). Lieberman, incidentally, has refused to indicate who he supports in any of those races despite his claim that he is still a Democrat.
Lieberman's situation shows the power of the incumbency and the benefit of having local media in your pocket. He also is running a Rove/Bush type campaign, constantly labeling Lamont as some sort of far out nutjob.
Hopefully come this November we in CT will send our real life Mr. Smith to Washington.