CT Senate Race Tightens? Nah, It's Just Getting Started

by DemFromCT

From CNN:

(CNN) -- A new poll by the American Research Group indicated a statistical dead heat in the U.S. Senate race in Connecticut between upstart Democratic nominee Ned Lamont and incumbent Sen. Joseph Lieberman.

Some 44 percent of respondents deemed "likely voters" supported Lieberman, while 42 percent said they would vote for Lamont in the November election. This gap was well within the margin of error of plus-or-minus 3.5 percentage points. Republican nominee Alan Schlesinger got backing from 3 percent of likely voters. (Full results)

Late last week, Quinnipiac University released its own poll showing Lieberman with a healthy, double-digit lead over Lamont -- 53 percent of likely voters to 41 percent. (Full story)

The main difference between the two polls lay in the percentage of respondents who said that they were undecided: 2 percent in the Quinnipiac survey compared to 11 percent in the ARG poll, more than 5 times larger.

According to the ARG poll, some 65 percent of Democrats said they'd vote for Lamont, compared to 30 percent for Lieberman. Overwhelming support from Republicans -- who backed him 57 percent to Lamont's 18 percent -- propelled Lieberman.

Usual caveats apply... it's not Labor Day yet, and until it is, don't put too much store in the polls. But add in Rasmussen, showing the same thing, and we have a close race, as previously discussed here. Carping about Joe doing this and Ned not doing that are sort of a waste of energy. That's what they do in Washington when they don't want to get down to working on the people's business.

Meanwhile Alan Schlesinger is in DC working on doubling or maybe tripling his poll numbers. Here's a candidate that makes Alan Keyes look extraordinarily popular. I have never seen poll numbers this low. Is this guy really saying in the race?

Comments

[freepatriot]

Here's a candidate that makes Alan Keyes look extraordinarily popular.

rotflmao

I voted for alen keyes in the publican primary once, just for the fun of it

[DemFromCT]

The other six people who voted for him must have felt the same... and two were family.

[emptywheel]

Apparently Schlesinger was on Tweety today attacking Sanctimonious Joe from the Right.

More of that please.

[DemFromCT]

The R plan in DC doesn't match the R plan in CT. The local party is being asked to fall on its sword for the sake of Junior.

I can't imagine that will stand. The CT Rs must be fuming.

[PrahaPartizan]

The Republican national organization's decision to dis Schlesinger will hurt him worst in the one area in which he is the weakest - money. Without money he will not be able to get his platform or his views out to any possible constituency, including his fellow Republicans. How could they possibly vote for him if they don't even know anything about him?

Even Giordano had more support in his last run against Lieberman, and Giordano was a total sleaze, not just a Republican sleaze. We all knew he came from Waterbury, with the stain of Rowland on him and all, but I don't think any of the general public had any idea he was as slimy as he turned out to be. Even Giordano got a respectable Republican vote tally, thanks to the national resources made available to him. Schlesinger won't even have that support and his pecadillos can't even begin to compare to Giordano's.

[DemFromCT]

The question is what he'll do after going to DC with his hand out and getting it slapped.

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