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Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Tuesday Evening Round-Up
- This turned out to be a $10,000+ day for Ned Lamont on ActBlue. The latest numbers have him above $102,000 total.
- If you want to know why this all matters on the second official day of the campaign, read this post by Kos today on the importance of early money.
- Scroll down to see the full video of Ned Lamont's announcement speech.
- Ned was interviewed today by Ray Hardman of WNPR (mp3). Listen to it, it's good.
- Bob Brigham writes on Lieberman's monumental missteps out of the gate of this, his first primary campaign for any office in over three decades:
Look at the positioning to date, Lieberman is getting crappy advice from Sean Smith who thinks that assuming Lieberman's constituents are stupid and yelling that Lamont is angry will carry the day, as long as they throw enough money at the problem. Meanwhile, Lamont is empowering people to raise his campaign up as more people get involved...to think smarter and work harder, to let reality join us as a community.
Lieberman is just reverting by default to the last campaign he ran: against Howard Dean for the presidential nomination in 2004. Unfortunately for him, Ned Lamont is not Howard Dean, Connecticut in 2006 is not America in 2004, and Joe's campaign that year was an absolute joke anyway. The Joementum stays the same. - The latest Gallup poll finds that an astonishing 67% of Americans believe that President Bush does not "have a clear plan for handling the situation in Iraq." Sen. Joe Lieberman is, obviously, not among them. The Bush-Cheney-Lieberman policy on Iraq has been judged a failure by over two-thirds of the American public.
This Sunday will mark our nation's entrance into the fourth year of this exceedingly unnecessary, strategically disastrous, and monumentally mishandled war. Sen. Joe Lieberman still refuses to ask any tough questions.
Is this a one-issue campaign? Absolutely not. But if a discussion on Iraq policy is not a major part of this campaign, the candidates will be willfully ignoring the single most pressing issue facing our nation and the state of Connecticut right now.
posted by tparty at 9:51 PM 
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." Sen. Joe Lieberman is, obviously, not among them. The Bush-Cheney-Lieberman policy on Iraq has been judged a failure by over two-thirds of the American public.
Lieberman must be spending too much time in Uncle Dick's bunker.
Notice how the worst bullies shriek "attack," while they are doing all the attacking.
Lieberman must be spending too much time in Uncle Dick's bunker.
Notice how the worst bullies shriek "attack," while they are doing all the attacking.
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Time will tell how effective this strategy of getting the meme out that Lamont is an "angry single issue" candidate. My guess is "not very". But they still it out there for the people who will never see or hear Lamont. Those that do will see a telegenic, likeable guy with an easy manner and conversant on many other issues. That has to concern Joe Lieberman, as he makes his way to old and ornery, and out of touch.
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