Question: My Stepdad Says LIEberman Won In A "Landslide". Anybody Help Me Out?

Dinger

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Wed May-21-08 06:51 PM
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Question: My Stepdad Says LIEberman Won In A "Landslide". Anybody Help Me Out?

He's a repuke, and I don't remember lieberman winning by any landslide. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

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Bluebear

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Wed May-21-08 06:53 PM
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1. Won what? He lost his state party's nomination!

Edited on Wed May-21-08 06:54 PM by Bluebear

Lamont appears to have defeated Lieberman by more than 10,000 votes, according to unofficial vote returns. With 95 percent of the precincts reporting, Lamont led Lieberman 51.9 percent to 48.1 percent. The vote tally was 139,496 to 129,271. A hefty 42 percent of registered Democrats voted in the hotly contested primary, which many considered a referendum on the Iraq war.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2006/08/lieberman_concedes_carries_on.html

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tcfrogs

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Wed May-21-08 06:56 PM
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2. LIEberman beat Lamont in the General Election, though

Running as an independent.

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bunkerbuster1

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Wed May-21-08 06:56 PM
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3. If a 50-40 win is a "landslide," then Repuke Stepdad is correct.

I doubt most people would say that failing to win a clear majority of votes is a landslide, though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lieberman#Senate_election.2C_2006

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Purveyor

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Wed May-21-08 06:58 PM
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4. In the general election, where Lieberman won his senate seat:

Lieberman: 564,095 votes
LaMont: 450,844 votes
Schlesinger: 109,198 votes

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rpannier

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Wed May-21-08 06:59 PM
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5. Depends on how you define landslide

Since the republikkans are defining a 2-3% victory in 04 as a mandate, he may feel 10% is a landslide (in all fairness, that is fairly sizeable)

But, it's hardly a landslide in the LBJ (64), RR (84) and Clinton (96) vein.

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Dr. Strange

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Wed May-21-08 08:11 PM
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9. Well, maybe not the Clinton '96 one.

According to the Wiki, the percentages were 49.24% for Clinton and 40.71% for Dole.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1996

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rpannier

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Wed May-21-08 10:43 PM
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10. Thanks for the correction

I thought Clinton won by 12%

I was wrong...Again

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mike_c

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Wed May-21-08 07:00 PM
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6. election results are here....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_United_States_Senate_election,_2006#Election_results

Lieberman defeated Ned Lamont in the general election by 10 percentage points. That's a pretty hefty margin. Of course, MANY of those votes were crossover republicans or independents who would have likely voted republican under other circumstances.

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Clovis Sangrail

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Wed May-21-08 07:02 PM
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7. what constitutes a landslide?

He lost the party nomination by 4 pts and won the general by 10.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lieberman#Senate_election.2C_2006

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magellan

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Wed May-21-08 07:04 PM
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8. Lieberman won the 2006 CT election with 50% of the vote

...while Lamont got 40%. "Landslide victories" have a much bigger spread -- 20 percentage point difference or more. Calling Lieberman's win a landslide is akin to when Bush** called his 3% "victory" over Kerry a mandate.

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Hissyspit

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Wed May-21-08 10:52 PM
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11. Did you point out that Lieberman is a lunatic hypocritical asshole?

So even if he did win by a landslide, it means a lot of people voted for a lunatic hypocritical asshole. And lot of them have major buyer's regret.

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