Rasmussen has just come out with a new poll behind the subscription wall, but since these polls are put out there
i figure it`s ok to give the results.
Rasmussen has this race a dead heat

LIEBERMAN 45
LAMONT 43

Now all other polls show Lieberman with a double digit lead
so it`s a question who to believe. I think Rasmussen has a pretty good record with state polls.

also of interest TESTER 52
BURNS 43

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..8291/46398

AirportCat @ 7

Has there been any recent polling in this race? How likely are the likely voters to be swayed by a TV ad blitz?

The latest I can find is here at Teagan Goddard’s Political Wire:

September 06, 2006
In Connecticut, Poll Finds Lamont Way Behind
A new Public Opinion Strategies (R) poll finds Ned Lamont (D) trailing Sen. Joe Lieberman (I), 51% to 35%, in the Connecticut U.S. Senate race. Republican Alan Schlesinger receives 4% of the vote, while 10% remain undecided.

Key finding: When asked which candidate is running a negative campaign, 40% say Lamont compared to 19% for Lieberman.

Editor’s Note: Though a Republican firm, this is the Lieberman campaign’s internal poll.

Not good news, but Ned’s pulled a rabbit out of a hat once already. 54 days is a lot of time to change some minds.

Isn’t that the same firm who’s president just went to jail for fraud becauase they were making up results to please their clients?

Also if this is an internal poll it was leaked by the Liberman camp and I wouldn’t trust to tell me the time of day.

http://www.pollster.com/polls/…..enate_race

1. Lamont has been stagnant at about 40% for about 1 month, since the primary.

2. Lieberman’s average is about 48-51% in the last 5 polls.

I don’t know how this is happening except that Lieberman is being supported by over 90% of Republicans, while getting about 30% of Democrats, while Lamont gets only 65% of Democrats.

Lamont needs desparately to start turning this around, and soon, because all the D.C. Dems will start hedging their bets by switching to Lieberman if he appears to be winning. They don’t want him going off to Republicans in a huff (which he will anyway if he gets the chance)!

This will be seen as a big win for the money elite if Joe pulls it off. That’s horrible news for democracy of course.

There’s time to change things, but Lamont needs to start moving right now. He hasn’t capitalized on is primary win at all and his numbers have been flat for a month.

There’s only so much a ground game can make up. Asking your volunteers to turn out voters to overcome a 10% deficit is asking a LOT.

I really don’t know what voters are thinking, because Joe has only put his foot firmly in his mouth every chance he gets, e.g. forcing his way into the Newton parade when he was politely told he wasn’t wanted. How does that look?

The NDP really worked at GOTV. From the Liberals I didn’t get one visit, though I did get one scurrilous screed in my mailbox. I’ve never seen one before.

Lots of people here did not like the “American” style of politics.

The Cons weren’t really in it at all, just spoilers for the Liberal vote (the Lib candidate will keep her seat on city council).
There is a big Polish/Ukranian ethnic vote here that trends conservative.

The Greens ran the provincial leader who taught my kids design technology.

The election won’t change the balance of power so to call it a big election is not really true.
But hopefully it will let the Liberal provincial government know not to swing right to get keep power.

The former member of the riding is Gerard Kennedy, IMO a great guy. We could do worse than have him as PM.

Scariest thing W said on his latest interview with Larry King: “Look, words mean different things to different people.” When he said that, it struck me that that’s the core of the overall problem.

It’s fundamentally an admission that Bushco will engage, with full knowledge and no shame, in the worst kinds of relativism. You know…the kinds that were pioneered by Vlad the Impaler, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Pol Pot.

Christy-for-president-or-whatever sounds great, but I think I might rather see her as chief prosecutor for the World Court trials in The Hague when defendants Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, et al. come up on the docket.

Appearing before one of my personal heroes, Louise Arbour.

The Libs ran a city councillor, the Conservatives ran former city councillor, the Greens ran their party leader, and the New Democrats (social democrats) ran a popular United Church minister. The Libs panicked and went negative. The NDP won with 40%.

The polls closed at 8. All the results were in before 9, AND THE BALLOTS WERE PAPER!

Here’s the live blogging.

Time to end Diebold’s hegemony over elections.