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CT-Sen 2012: DSCC supporting Lieberman?

by: Larkspur

Fri Dec 17, 2010 at 15:18:21 PM EST



Lieberman to sit down with new Dem Senate campaign chief at her request
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) told The Ballot Box that he plans to sit down with incoming Senate campaign chief Patty Murray (D-Wash.) at her request.

Lieberman said he had a brief conversation with the new chairwoman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) earlier Wednesday.

"She said, 'I want to sit down and talk with you soon,' " Lieberman said. "We just had that exchange earlier today."

With control of the upper chamber on the line in 2012, Lieberman's reelection plans are the subject of intense speculation. He caucuses with Democrats, but there have been reports the GOP would be interested in having Lieberman run under its banner.

Should the four-term senator opt to seek another term as an independent, he'll have to regain his spot on the ballot. That would mean the creation of another party banner to officially run under - not an overwhelming task, given the state's ballot-access laws. (Lieberman ran under the Connecticut for Lieberman party in 2006.)
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Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) told a Connecticut newspaper that he's weighing a Lieberman challenge and will make a decision at the end of the lame-duck session.    
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I think Sen. Patty Murray should visit Connecticut before making a deal with Lieberman.

What party name will Lieberman devise should he run for re-election?  A Lieberman Party?  And will the CT for Lieberman party cross endorse the Democratic nominee?

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The Senate Democrats sold out this state once before; don't do it again Senator Murray! (0.00 / 0)
We are sick and tired of LIEberman.  Senate Democrats must not play games with our state!

And for any Connecticut Democrats who might just be contemplating supporting LIEberman either explicitly, or by remaining mum and refusing their support for a real Democrat, don't do it!  

We are out of patience with that kind of "Democrat".


Tough road to hoe, no matter what out-of-state support he gets (4.00 / 2)
When 72% of Democrats in Connecticut say they don't want Lieberman back, he'll have a hard time winning a primary. 61% of Republicans say the same, making it clear a party switch would be just as futile. When 66% of voters statewide say they won't vote for him again, he's got a pretty well impossible road in the general. It doesn't matter how many people in the Democratic caucus in the Senate might like him, or how many well-connected DC insiders he knows.

Lieberman escaped last time by convincing a lot of people who didn't follow the race that he was still going to be a reliable Democrat and keep his seniority and influence. He might have gotten away with being a PITA in the Senate without people finding out, but he stepped up onto far, far too prominent a stage when he endorsed McCain and spoke at the Republican convention. He isn't going to convince anybody in Connecticut that he deserves Democrats' votes.

Was he completely 100% awful? Of course not; nearly any Senator has some vote along the line that's defensible, and Lieberman had quite a few unobjectionable ones, including voting to repeal DADT and to pass the DREAM Act today. But Connecticut is a blue enough state that we can get a real Democrat in office, not settle for someone who needs his ego stroked in the media every week before he'll consent to stop stymieing progress.

Only the left defends rights.


Dems to watch (0.00 / 0)
The Dem gubernatorial win has given the party the opportunity to use state offices to elevate promising Dems and give them statewide exposure.

One can only assume that designing jobs to permit greater exposure is not merely due to largesse.  It strengthens the bench and increases name recognition so that if and when such people holding such appointments want to run for office again (or replace someone moving on to higher office), it's not as tough a row to hoe.

Of course, extremely capable people like Nora Dannehy and Andrew McDonald might not be attracted to their new appointments if they had to toil in obscurity, so it could be as much that they insisted on substantive roles as anything.

But I can envision some scenarios in which visibility and subtantive roles could come into play in the future for both of them. (I have no idea of Dannehy has any interest in elected office; it may be that she does not.)

As for the present, I think Connecticut is extremely fortunate to have their energies and commitment to serve the citizens of the state.


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I would (0.00 / 0)
Fully expect McDonald to make a run at CD-04 if Hime's ever leaves that position.

I do think that him and Dannehy running in a field of Murphy and Bysiewicz would be like Dodd running an a field with Clinton and Obama.  


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State wide ... (0.00 / 0)
Joe Courtney or Denise Napier would be the strongest candidates given the 2010 results.

Murphy won by ... (0.00 / 0)
19K, Courtney by 52K and Napier by 120K. Think about it, an African American woman for US Senate.

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Is Napier interested in running? (0.00 / 0)
Would you like to call her?  Can't hurt.

I've been very impressed not only with her financial skills, but also her people skills.  And it can't hurt that she is the daughter of one of the great, famed Tuskegee airmen from WW II.


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Stats (4.00 / 1)
You should take note that Murphy and Courtney's wins were in 20% of the state -- projected out over the same population (statewide) as Nappier, it would be at least 95k/260k (and that doesn't take into account that CDs 2/5 were designed to be weaker for Dems than the 1st/3rd).

Still, Nappier would be interesting. The main experience that Courtney and Murphy have that she doesn't is rapid-fire fundraising, and it'd be a simple enough matter for her to demonstrate that she's able to do it if she wanted to run.  

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