HEADLINE: Lieberman must decide whether to run as independent candidate

HARTFORD, Conn. --With his Democratic primary challenger advancing in the polls, Connecticut U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman must soon decide whether to begin gathering signatures for a possible independent run this November.

His campaign staffers contend they're focusing only on winning on the Aug. 8 primary. But Lieberman himself has not ruled out petitioning his way onto the November ballot as part of his backup plan to garner a fourth term in the U.S. Senate. "I am not going to close out any options," he recently told reporters.

Lieberman has until Aug. 9 -- the day after the Democratic primary -- to collect 7,500 signatures from registered voters to land on the November ballot as an unaffiliated candidate.

But any effort to gather signatures before the primary could annoy Democrats who already question his party loyalty and his perceived closeness to President Bush, as well as his support for the Iraq war.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2006/06/14/lieberman_must_decide_whether_to_run_as_independent_candidate/

Buh bye, Joe. :hi:

Adios, Joe.

"secretly" and hold them back until he "needs" them..

As happy as I am about Lamont gaining, I fear that Joementum is still well-connected with the "important people", and who knows how many repubes will re-register as a dem, just to insure that Joe beats him?

When McCain was running against junior in the primaries, lots of dems did just that..(self included)

That in Connecticut, there is a 90-day blackout period after switching party registration before you can participate in a primary. So any republican wanting to show some Joe Love had to have done it by early May.

Need to get written permission of Secretary of the State before you get the signatures, signers have to show ID and everything has to be authorized, dated and and sworn to by petition gatherer. Fraud is dealt with severely.

out you traitor -- The idiotic freepers were right, your name is "Loserman."



And while you're at it, take this disgraceful Zell Miller wannabe (Ben Nelson of Nebraska) with you!

The reason that Lieberman is running scared is because Lamont is an excellent candidate, not just an anti-Lieberman. Nelson doesn't even have a primary challenger let alone a good one. Find a good primary challenger who can win in Nebraska and then we can ditch Nelson. Otherwise it's better to have his caucus vote than a Republican.

But I just don't understand why Dean and the party can't come up with a moderate who could appeal to the conservative Nebraska voters in such a red state.

All I know is I cringe every time I look at Nelson's voting record. He's such a Bush kiss-ass.

Before the partisan era it wasn't hard to elect progressive Democratic senators from these states even though they voted Republican in presidential elections. This is not the case anymore and the congressional delegations in these states are going solidly red. Bob Kerrey was definately more progressive than Ben Nelson and was elected during the 90s and probably could've been re-elected in 2000 had he run again, but he was an exception to the rule because he had Clintonesque charisma. Find a guy like Bob Kerrey and he have as good of a shot as any Republican at the seat, but the fact is that there simply aren't that many Democratic officeholders in Nebraska to choose from.

And I'm just guessing that if Joe loses the dem primary and gets on the ticket as an independent, then that pretty much means the republican candidate will win since Joe will split the dem vote.

Anyway, if that is the case, I'm perfectly happy with a republican winning that seat as long as it means Joe is kicked out. The man is a worthless piece of guttersnipe that needs to spend more time with his family consoling him over his loss and telling him it's not his fault that he was voted out, and he did the right thing in getting down on his knees like a good repubby whore to firmly stick his nose up George's ass.

TlalocW

If one includes dog catcher and other local races what percentage of these are cherry picked as opposed to straight party vote?

This is the general election mind you not primary season, most people will make a single mark and be done with it. Do you have relevant data to support a vote splitting hypothesis in Conneticut in 2006?

The Republican challenger right now is a nobody named Alan Schlesinger (sp)

If Lamont wins the Dem primary & Lieberman runs as an independent, the R challenger would still come in 3rd. I'm not kidding. Lieberman & Lamont would get 70-75% of the vote, with Schlesinger getting 25-30%.

Now, if Nancy Johnson or Chris Shays entered the race on the Republican side in a 3 way race, I think either of those two could win the seat with like 36-38%.

as a Democrat. I think he's demonstrating pretty decisively that he's no such thing. He obviously cares far more about his own political hide than he does about the party he claims to be a member of.

I wish he had shown half of the political fight in 2000 against Bush and Cheney that he's showing in this primary race against Ned Lamont. I'm now wondering if he didn't deliberately sabotage that election.

Even if a big pro-war DLCer is the candidate, DLCers say we are ruining the Party if we do not vote straight party line.

Now here is the biggest DLCer around, Bush's favorite pro-war Dem. Lieberman sure is showing us exactly how loyal the DLC is to the Democratic party. To them loyalty only goes one way.

they need to be purged.