Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Lieberman Race Tightens in Connecticut
Sen. Joe Lieberman is barely holding on to a lead over Democratic challenger Ned Lamont in the race for the Senate from Connecticut, a new poll reveals.
The survey of nearly 800 likely voters by the American Research Group Inc. found that 44 percent would vote for Lieberman – who is running as an independent after his August 8 primary loss to Lamont – while 42 percent would cast their ballot for Lamont and three percent would vote for Republican candidate Alan Schlesinger.
An August 10-14 Quinnipiac University poll reported by NewsMax had Lieberman ahead of Lamont by 12 percentage points.
While Democrats favored Lamont by a 65 percent to 30 percent margin in the new poll, Lieberman fared much better among Republicans and independents. Registered Republicans gave Lieberman 57 percent of their votes, compared with 18 percent for Lamont and 11 percent for Schlesinger; among unaffiliated voters, Lieberman had an edge of 10 percentage points over Lamont.
Some of those polled by the American Research Group were surveyed after Lieberman defended his support for the war in Iraq on CBS’s "Face the Nation” on August 20.
Sen. Joe Lieberman is barely holding on to a lead over Democratic challenger Ned Lamont in the race for the Senate from Connecticut, a new poll reveals.
The survey of nearly 800 likely voters by the American Research Group Inc. found that 44 percent would vote for Lieberman – who is running as an independent after his August 8 primary loss to Lamont – while 42 percent would cast their ballot for Lamont and three percent would vote for Republican candidate Alan Schlesinger.
An August 10-14 Quinnipiac University poll reported by NewsMax had Lieberman ahead of Lamont by 12 percentage points.
While Democrats favored Lamont by a 65 percent to 30 percent margin in the new poll, Lieberman fared much better among Republicans and independents. Registered Republicans gave Lieberman 57 percent of their votes, compared with 18 percent for Lamont and 11 percent for Schlesinger; among unaffiliated voters, Lieberman had an edge of 10 percentage points over Lamont.
Some of those polled by the American Research Group were surveyed after Lieberman defended his support for the war in Iraq on CBS’s "Face the Nation” on August 20.
