Connecticut: Who's on first?

WTNH Channel 8 carried an item this morning titled Lamont narrows Lieberman's lead in Quinnipiac poll. Being the diligent political scout for independent voters and folks who read The Hankster, I clicked and read.

"For Ned Lamont to catch Sen. Joseph Lieberman, he needs Alan Schlesinger to break out of single digits and take away Republican votes from Lieberman. That hasn't happened," QU poll director Douglas Schwartz said in a statement. "Lieberman, the once and future Democrat, is winning 73 percent of the Republican vote."

And then this:

"The poll shows Lieberman getting the support of 73 percent of Republican voters, and 51 percent of independent voters. Lamont leads among Democrat voters 56-to-37 percent."

An enlightening picture of the political landscape, littered with the carcasses of democratic (small d) political principles--after all, there's a US Senate seat at stake here for a big fat political party. I wonder what independent voters will be doing on November 8... -NH