Lieberman Leads In Post-Primary Poll

Two days after his loss to Greenwich millionaire millionare and Democratic anti-war poster boy Ned Lamont, Senator Lieberman now leads Lamont 46 percent to Lamont's 41 percent with Republican Alan Schlesinger far behind at 6 percent.

This new Rasmussen poll is more evidence that Senator Lieberman has stopped Lamont's previously relentless momentum.

On July 20th Rasmussen found Senator Lieberman and Lamont were tied at 40 percent each, and Schlesinger at 13 percent.

The Hartford Courant reported reactions to the new Rasmussen poll numbers:

"This tells me the Lieberman-Lamont race is going to be competitive right through November," said pollster Scott Rasmussen.

Lieberman spokesman Dan Gerstein said Friday the campaign believes its candidate has shown a surge since late last week, notably after his Sunday night "closing argument" speech.

But Liz Dupont-Diehl, Lamont's spokeswoman, noted, "Look at where we were six months ago," when her candidate was a virtual unknown.

"We see momentum and we see it continuing," she said.

When you couple the Rasmussen finding that Senator Lieberman has pulled ahead of Lamont by five percent with the Quinnipiac polls' finding that the Senator cut Lamont's lead in half in the week before the primary election, it is clear the momentum has shifted. Senator Lieberman is not going to find it easy to win in November, especially with the weight of the Democratic party now behind the Lamont's antiwar campaign.

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[Repack Rider]

Lamont will beat Lieberman like a rented mule.

Again.