Elections Blog

One of the more laughable post-election assertions by either side came from our good buddy Kos:
Lieberman has been neutered. If he leaves the caucus for short-term gain, he loses all leverage and power and harms his long-term interests. Yet he doesn’t stay in the caucus as a Democrat, but as an independent. And in that [...]

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…marred only by the appearance of MoDo (transcript here).  Said MoDo:

MR. RUSSERT: Maureen Dowd, here’s the cover of Newsweek magazine. “Father Knows Best.” With Bush 41, Bush 43, and it’s subtitled “With Congress Lost, Iraq in Chaos, Bush Calls In His Dad’s Team. Can James, James Baker and Company Save the Son’s Presidency?” Very similar [...]

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Contra the ridiculous assertion by Kos that Lieberman has been ‘neutered’, he is, in fact, at the peak of his power:
The midterm elections provided radical left bloggers with, among many other results, their worst nightmare on Tuesday. They had succeeded, earlier in the campaign year, in helping defeat Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primary in [...]

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Was Howard Dean’s 50-state strategy a stroke of brilliance, or did it cost Democrats an even larger margin in the House? That’s the question behind a raging post-election controversy. Ryan Lizza of The New Republic:
Some big name Democrats want to oust DNC Chairman Howard Dean, arguing that his stubborn commitment to the [...]

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Rich Lowry on the internal Republican polling…
Shock of the day: Kos doesn’t like Lieberman, and vice-versa (hilariously, Kos takes offense because Lieberman called DKos the leading left-wing blog; apparently Markos thinks he’s in the mainstream.  Bonus hilarity for complaining about Lieberman’s thuggish tactics (heard any Rape Gurney Joe jokes lately, Markos?))… 
Second shock of the day: massive Democratic [...]

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Matt Stoller just can’t figure out why Joe Lieberman has such a big lead:
This race in Connecticut is puzzling.  The Q-poll is mostly nonsense.  It was completed last night at 9pm, with the Q-poll director Doug Schwartz pretending as if the second debate, which ended an hour earlier, figured into the results.  I don’t know [...]

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Where the hell are you people? Jane, snap to, your leader needs you!  The latest intrade quotes on the Connecticut Senate - Lieberman has a 81% chance of winning…ouch!  The bad news: the House staying GOP is only at 38%, but the Senate keeping elephants in charge is at 72%…

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I thought Markos and Matt “SEC Settlement” Stoller told us papa had a brand new bag, but it looks like the same ol’, same ol’ with Ned Lamont.  Rich ‘Man of the People’ can’t appeal to enough real people, and tries to buy his way into office:
Democrat Ned Lamont, seeking to erase Sen. Joe Lieberman’s [...]

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Kevin Rennie has been no fan of the Lieberman campaign, as regular readers of the Hartford Courant know, so when a man with friendly eyes looks at Lamont and finds the man wholly lacking in qualifications, you know there’s something to it:
Democratic Senate candidate Ned Lamont is having trouble moving from the small stage of [...]

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I shi..er, kid you not:
Lamont’s campaign got a boost Wednesday from former President Carter, who offered a blistering critique of Lieberman’s support for the Iraq war. “He was one of the originators of public statements that misled the American people into believing that the Iraqi war was justified,” the former Democratic president said on CNN’s [...]

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Survey USA: Lieberman by 13…and not a word from Jane Hamsher! What’s the matter, Jane? Cat got your tongue?…

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There’s a reason that angst over Joe Lieberman has given way on the Nutroots® front to an ABC docudrama, perhaps - never a group that handles loss well (look at the pathological inability to let go of PlameGate for a quick example), the Nuts® are facing the prospect of losing their greatest victory to date, [...]

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As the Senate prepares to reconvene after the August break, Joe Lieberman is not going to be shocked if he is not Mr. Popularity with his Democratic colleagues:
Sen. Joe Lieberman, whose independent re-election bid has rankled Democrats, says he expects a cold shoulder or two from Senate colleagues when he returns to Washington next week.
“Obviously, [...]

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Bruce Kluger, occasional blogger at Huff’n’Puff, opines in USA Today on the state of the blogosphere, and uses the tired analogy of a child spouting off without the embrace of the editor parent. His take on the month of August is that it was a bad one for bloggers because (a) Joe Lieberman didn’t [...]

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The good news, as we discussed earlier: two polls show Lieberman still leading Lamont.
The bad news: both show a statistically insignificant 2% lead.
The good news: Lamont has a terrible image problem with the undecideds, and most of them aren’t Democrats, anyway…
Advantage: Lieberman…

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Two new polls show Joe Lieberman with a scant two-point lead over Ned Lamont (forgive the source, but Rasmussen has it hidden under Premium).  I’ve somewhat glibly predicted a big Lieberman victory in November, just as I somewhat glibly predicted Ned Lamont had ZERO chance of knocking off Lieberman in the primary - but here’s [...]

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What are these people so afraid of?
Critics of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman’s independent run to keep his job attacked on two fronts Monday, with one group asking an elections official to throw him out of the Democratic Party and a former rival calling on state officials to keep his name off the November ballot. 
Does democracy [...]

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We’ll take the good news where we can get it as this long, brutal summer continues:
The arrest of terror suspects in London has helped buoy President Bush to his highest approval rating in six months and dampen Democratic congressional prospects to their lowest in a year.
In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, [...]

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John Fund says he’s not doing well getting the word out:
Everyone has long known the president is no Pericles. One of Mr. Bush’s friends cheerfully admitted to me once that “every morning George gets up and arm-wrestles the English language all day. He often loses.” Many bright people are inarticulate. Albert Einstein was dyslexic, and [...]

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In John Kerry’s world, there is no room for dissent on Iraq, thus making him the political equivalent of Kos and Jane Hamsher.  Just listen to the arrogant lightweight, who famously chewed out an aide for not bringing his favorite brush during the 2004 campaign, disparage Joe Lieberman, a man who is still the senior Democratic [...]

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