CT-Sen 2012: DSCC supporting Lieberman?

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".

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by: thomashooker @ Sat Dec 18, 2010 at 18:31:07 PM UTC

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.

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by: realnrh @ Sun Dec 19, 2010 at 07:05:17 AM UTC

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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by: greenpeas @ Sun Dec 19, 2010 at 12:37:41 PM UTC

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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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by: MBethel @ Sun Dec 19, 2010 at 16:27:34 PM UTC

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State wide ... (0.00 / 0)

Joe Courtney or Denise Napier would be the strongest candidates given the 2010 results.

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by: KillingworthDem @ Mon Dec 20, 2010 at 20:06:30 PM UTC

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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by: KillingworthDem @ Mon Dec 20, 2010 at 20:12:30 PM UTC

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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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by: thomashooker @ Mon Dec 20, 2010 at 22:04:29 PM UTC

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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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by: mattw @ Mon Dec 20, 2010 at 22:12:24 PM UTC

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