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Connecticut voters have historically always responded strongly to bipartisanship--you might recall that the "Connecticut compromise" allowed North and South to unite and actually form the US.

"He is up for reelection in Conn. Reports suggest that he is still very popular in Connecticut."
Yeah, he is. The voters there see his record on issues like reproductive rights, the environment, racial equality, stem cell research, health care, gun control, etc., etc., as being of equal importance to the war in Iraq. Connecticut is sometimes called the "arsenal of democracy" because many defense industries are headquartered there and have historically been based there.

The Democrats in Connecticut are in the middle of reforming the state legislature and are trying to unseat a popular Republican governor--they have no interest in ripping up their entire ticket and unseating a candidate who is wildly popular just to please out of state leftists or the Connecticut Green party. Even before Joe's muddle-headed "war cabinet" proposal, he was such a shoo-in for re-election in 2006 that the Republican party wasn't going to try to mount much of an effort to unseat him. (Can anybody name his Republican challenger without google? I can't...and I've actually looked him up a couple of times in the last month.) In 2000, the GOP trotted out Philip Giordano to run against Joe, and Giordano was convicted of felony child molestation a couple months after the election.

Simply from a practical point of view, you firebreathers ought to consider this--if things go well for the Democrats as I'm sure we all hope they do, and we regain control of the Senate, the margin will only be one or two seats. Why anybody sane would want to piss one seat away is beyond me....and after we take control, we will still need people who can reach across the aisle to make bipartisan compromises with moderate Republicans like Snowe if we want to get anything real accomplished.