Quinnipiac says Lieberman on track to be slaughtered in '12

[Lunar]

Note that he loses by 28% before you even introduce a GOP alternative that would presumably bleed Joe more.  Also note that Blumenthal has already indicated that he's interested in challenging Lieberman.

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1296.xml?ReleaseID=1259

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/poll-lieberman-would-lose-2012-re-election-in-landslide.php

If Joe Lieberman decides to run for a fifth term in 2012, a new Quinnipiac poll suggests that it may be a lost cause.

The new poll tests Lieberman as an independent against Democratic Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. The numbers: Blumenthal 58%, Lieberman 30%. Yikes.

Lieberman's active campaigning against the Democratic Party last year hasn't won him too many friends back home. Democrats go for Blumenthal by 83%-9%, and independents are for Blumenthal 55%-29%. Lieberman is the de facto Republican nominee in this match, and with GOP voters he scores 67%-23% over Blumenthal.

Lieberman's job approval is also at only 45%, with 48% disapproving. Among Democrats that's a 21%-70% rating, Republicans 75%-20%, while independents give him a narrow approval of 48%-46%.

A lot can happen in four years, but right now it doesn't look like Lieberman has too many options. He can't run as a Democrat, he would still lose as a Republican, and there's no reason to believe that staying as an independent will provide much more of an opportunity.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Four years? I wouldn't read too much into this at all.

[Sam Spade]

Surprised they didn't play around with some Dodd matchups.  Anyone with his type of approval numbers is definitely in some sort of danger.  No wonder Rob Simmons has actually been playing around with the idea of running.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I think benconstine is going to cry.

[Holmes]

Looking forward to Lieberman moving more to the left in the coming years, only to lose in 2012.

[Lief 🗽]

Hahahahahaha.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Four years is a long time.  Things look bad now, there's no denying that, but these things mean little in 2010, much less early 2009.

[Aizen]

it's painfully obvious that lieberman will retire. no way will that villain run in what would be a massacre for him. that is not how he wants to end his political career.

[Nixon in '80]

Four years is about twelve lifetimes in politics, but that's a mighty big hole to crawl out of, given Joe's history... maybe he'll try to get ambassador to Israel, or something.

[Eraserhead]

it's painfully obvious that lieberman will retire. no way will that villain run in what would be a massacre for him. that is not how he wants to end his political career.

Yeah, it's a shame. I won't miss this swine one bit but I did really want to see him defeated in the political combat that we call elections. He won't give us that opportunity though. He's not that stupid.

[Eraserhead]

Four years is about twelve lifetimes in politics, but that's a mighty big hole to crawl out of, given Joe's history... maybe he'll try to get ambassador to Israel, or something.

Better yet, why doesn't he just move to the Holy Land and join the Likud Party? That seems to be where his head is at anyway.

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Supporting the stimulus doesn't seem to be helping him. Then again, it received 0 nays from northeast Senators. You have to go to Ohio or North Carolina to get a nay vote.

[Kevinstat]

Supporting the stimulus doesn't seem to be helping him. Then again, it received 0 nays from northeast Senators. You have to go to Ohio or North Carolina to get a nay vote.

Or New Hampshire (Judd Gregg), which is in the northeast.