I don't know how closely any of you have been following this, but the New York Times just endorsed Lamont over Lieberman. Its time for Lieberman to go, he preaches "moral values" as fervently as any right-wing Senator and has been a Bush lackey for the Iraq war.

I'd still rather have Leiberman than Dick Cheney for VP.

That's not much of a choice though.

I so hope joe looses the primary because he WILL win as an independent...

This entire race illustrates the fanaticism of the left. The guy is a liberal on every issue, but actually acknowledges islamofascism. Says a lot about the left wing nuts that they want to destroy him and Hillary.

I hate Lieberman because he acknowledges islamofascism.

i hate the word islamofascism, and i think this guy uses it in every post he makes.

So you hate Lieberman because he is a realist?

I'm not voting for Lieberman, but it has nothing to do with Islamofascism. I just plain don't like Jews. Also I live in Maryland.

It's possible he could still win, but a lot less likely. All of the party money and endorsement that would have gone to him will shift over to Lamont and that's a pretty big deal.

He's been a senator here in CT for years, and I'd be suprised to see him voted out anytime soon. CT isn't as liberal as the rest of New England and his (smaller than the media portrays) shift towards the Republican side while remaining a Democrat will probably help him here. The New York Times isn't all that popular here outside Fairfield County and his campaign commercials on TV are MUCH better than his opponent's -- who pretty much runs nothing but attack ads about Joe's support of Bush. Lieberman has always been a relatively conservative Democrat.

*drumroll*

If Lieberman loses it's his own fault. Lamont took a page out of Karl Rove's book on campaigning and defined Lieberman before he could get his message out. It worked brilliantly too. Lieberman ran a terrible campaign, his message was essentially, "Vote for me because I've been here for 18 years." He started gathering signatures for a run as an independent, but now "unnamed" campaign advisors are saying he may just hang it up if he loses.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060808/ap_ ... MlJVRPUCUl

Lieberman campaign says Web site hacked

By SUSAN HAIGH, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 10 minutes ago

HARTFORD, Conn. - Democratic Sen.
Joe Lieberman, who was locked in a battle with an anti-war challenger in the nation's most closely watched primary race Tuesday, accused his opponent's supporters of hacking his campaign Web site and e-mail system.
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Lieberman campaign manager Sean Smith said the campaign has contacted the Connecticut attorney general's office and asked for a criminal investigation by state and federal authorities.

"If Ned Lamont has a backbone in his body, he will call on these people to cease and desist," Smith said.

Lamont, campaigning early Tuesday afternoon in Bridgeport, said he knew nothing about the accusations. "It's just another scurrilous charge," he said.

A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office declined immediate comment. Calls placed to the
FBI and the chief state's attorney's office seeking comment were not immediately returned.

Smith said the site began having problems Monday night and crashed for good at 7 a.m.

"Voters cannot go to our Web site. They cannot access information," Smith said. "It is a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise voters."

Elections also were being held Tuesday in Colorado, Missouri, Michigan and Georgia. In Georgia, Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who made headlines this year for a scuffle with a U.S. Capitol Police officer, faced a runoff for her district's Democratic nomination.

A new poll showed the race tightening between Lieberman and Lamont, with Lamont holding a slight lead. Lieberman has said he will run as an independent in the fall if defeated in the primary.

Lamont, the millionaire owner of a cable television company, held a slight lead of 51 percent to 45 percent over Lieberman among likely Democratic voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday.

The telephone poll of 784 likely Democratic primary voters, conducted from July 31 to Aug. 6, has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

Jack Ellovich said he voted for Lieberman, citing the three-term senator's experience.

"He's already got the standing in the Senate," said Ellovich, after casting his vote at a downtown Hartford precinct. "I think he can get stuff done for Connecticut and I don't think Lamont really knows how the system works."

Others, however, say they were swayed by the 2000 vice presidential candidate's support for the
Iraq war, saying he is too close to Republicans and
President Bush.

"I'm completely for Lamont because of the war issue. I'm totally disgusted with Lieberman and his positions. I think he sold us out," teacher William Clement, 57, said after casting his vote for Lamont in Hartford's west end.

"He's more like Bush than anything else. I think he's his little puppet," voter Raymond Deauchemn, 55, said in Norwich.

If defeated, Lieberman would be only the fourth incumbent senator since 1980 to lose a primary election.

Lieberman said he believes voters are coming back to him.

"I feel they were flirting with the other guy for a while, wanting to send me a message," he said Monday during a stop at a restaurant in Hartford. "I got their message. I think they want to send me back to Washington to continue working with them, fighting for them, and delivering for Connecticut."

The race attracted tremendous interest, both in Connecticut and nationally. Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz said she expected turnout Tuesday of 40 percent, much higher than the 25 percent that is typical of state primaries.

More than 14,000 Connecticut voters switched their registration from unaffiliated to Democrat to vote in the primary, while another 14,000 new voters registered as Democrats, according to state statistics.

"People want change and people like what they hear from Ned," said Liz Dupont-Diehl, Lamont's campaign spokeswoman.

Some argue the GOP would be better off if Lieberman wins, on the theory that anti-war activists would become discouraged and stay home in November.

Others argue that Republicans will be better off if Lamont prevails. That way, the argument goes, they can try to win over voters by telling them the Democrats have been taken over by an anti-war fringe and can't be trusted to protect the nation's security.

I think lieberman would fare a lot better if he accepted steven colberts gracious invitation to appear on the colbert report.

With 5.88% of precincts reporting:

Lamont - 56.63%
Lieberman - 43.37%

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elec ... N=POLITICS

Hopefully Lieberman gets owned

According to MSNBC Lieberman will run as an Independent if he loses.

According to PD, the GOP candidate will win if he does, so I guess he'd accomplish his goal.