DINO Corruption: Lieberman and Bayh $$ Enriching Themselves

Poll: Lieberman Would Lose 2012 Re-Election In Landslide

If Joe Lieberman decides to run for a fifth term in 2012, a new Quinnipiac poll suggests that it may be a lost cause.

The new poll tests Lieberman as an independent against Democratic Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. The numbers: Blumenthal 58%, Lieberman 30%. Yikes.

Lieberman's active campaigning against the Democratic Party last year hasn't won him too many friends back home. Democrats go for Blumenthal by 83%-9%, and independents are for Blumenthal 55%-29%. Lieberman is the de facto Republican nominee in this match, and with GOP voters he scores 67%-23% over Blumenthal.

Bayh is widely popular statewide with a 62 approval rating, but half of Democrats polled said they would consider switching their vote if he decided to support a GOP filibuster against health reform, as he suggested he might do earlier this week.

The former Indiana governor, who has taken about $1.5 million in insurance company contributions, told CBS he'd consider siding with the GOP on procedural votes if the cost of Reid's $800 billion-plus plan weren't contained, saying it wasn't even worth "starting a discussion" if changes weren't made.

His base might punish him should he make good on the threat: Fifty-one percent of Democrats polled said Bayh's support of a GOP filibuster attempt would cost him their general election vote -- and a similar number said they would be open to another Democrat in the 2010 primary if he voted against his caucus.

Roughly a third of independents said Bayh's defection to the GOP on cloture would make them less likely to support him in the general.