On your numbers, Lieberman dropped 18 points (46 to 28) from April to November 03, not 35, surely?

An email from the Lamont campaign tonight:

Dear Friend,

Congratulations. Since we launched www.NedLamont.com more than 1,000 people from Connecticut have signed up to volunteer, giving us the beginnings of the ground army we need to launch our campaign. During the next few weeks a team of volunteers will be individually contacting each volunteer from Connecticut who signed up and get you involved in specific campaign activities.

Because of your enthusiasm I have established a candidate committee and am in the process putting together a great campaign team.

I will formally announce my candidacy in March -- but first we need to do some more work. Joe Lieberman has already raised over $5 million and not surprisingly Republican lobbyists in Washington DC, including George H.W. Bush's former Chief of Staff, are stepping up to raise money for the Senator that was voted the most popular Democrat amongst lobbyists and Republicans in the National Journal's annual poll.

In addition to what I will contribute, it will cost $500,000 to launch this campaign and we need to begin right now. You can make a secure contribution directly to my campaign on my Act Blue page.

http://www.nedlamont.com/actblue.html

Republican lobbyists are falling all over themselves to support Joe Lieberman. It's not just his votes for awful legislation such as the transportation bill with over 6,000 pork ridden earmarks, his unquestioning support for the 'stay the course strategy' in Iraq, or his support of last year's sham of an energy bill with billions in tax giveways to the oil producers and few incentives for conservation. During the past six years Senator Lieberman has been more likely to support the President on the big issues and too quick to criticize the Democratic alternatives.

Joe will claim he is an independent voice for Connecticut but in reality his cozy support for the Bush polices undermines our progressive values and undermines the Democrats who are promoting these values. A blue state should have a blue Senator.

Early financial support is essential if we are to build the campaign organization and show that this campaign is one to reckon with. Get our campaign started off right.

http://www.nedlamont.com/actblue.html

Winning this campaign will be a tremendous challenge. We are going to need a grassroots organization that combines the best of the old fashioned door to door politics with today's netroots.

We can only do this if we continue to grow. Please ask your friends, families, and neighbors to join us in challenging George Bush's favorite Democrat by signing up today.

http://www.NedLamont.com

Thank you,

Ned Lamont

Paid for by Ned Lamont for Senate, John Hartwell, Treasurer
email: info@nedlamont.com
phone: (203) 622-7091
web: http://nedlamont.com

I love this site, but this is just a reach.  This is exactly what I hate about the internet.  Oooh, let's get all excited about a candidate that is polling horribly, but whom we really like.  Let's spend time and energy and money and then....lose.

You guys can go through this again if you want, I'm sticking my time and energy into candidates that stand a fighting chance.  

If I LIVED in CT, then I would focus my energy on this race because it would be my Senator and my fight.  But, it's crazy with everything going on to hope and pray and wonk ourselves into a frenzy over this race at the cost of other races.  I guess if you've got money to burn then this is the place to do it.

Sorry, but that's my opinion.

The most important facet of this poll is, I believe, that if you match Ned Lamont's name recognition to Lieberman's, Lamont earns 41% from Democrats.

With Lamont having 6% name recognition, it's way too soon to proclaim him viable.  That doesn't mean he should be counted out, but actions speak louder than words.

Hey Aldon, make sure that volunteer weekends are posted. There's some of us in DC who would be happy to make a couple weekend trips to help out.

Also, I assume you are the same Aldon from the CS Dev mailing list?

This is just sad.

I am not a big Liebnerman fan but this is just wrong.

Cool. Will do!

Does anyone know what the polls looked like at this point in the Specter primary challenge?

Is that this poll is registered democrats.  The number who vote in the primary is MUCH smaller and much more left.

Additionally, being a non-presidential year the number of primary voters is yet smaller and yet again more to the left.

Lieberman being 18 points above 50 is "worrying"? Yeah, and the problems we've encountered in Iraq are a "matter of concern." And while we're at it, death is "likely."

Come on people. It's a non-starter. In the history of politics there's probably never been a challenger who started here and went on to win, short of some massive scandal that we have no inkling of whatsoever right now.

Go win the majority for the Dem Party. Then maybe Joe won't irritate you so much.

like the Republicans do.  Specter now has a rightwing voting record.  He voted for Alito and Roberts too.  Win or lose, this may finally force Lieberman to actually earn his (D-CT) beside his name.

If support for Ned Lamont is done in the hopes that it might scare Joe into taking his base into consideration more, that's one thing. If people are supporting Ned Lamont in the hopes that he actually has a snowball's chance in hell of winning, save your money.

Lieberman will crush Ned Lamont in the primary. Its that simple. Lieberman is one of the most popular politicians in the history of Connecticut.

If Democrats were in charge, Lieberman would be less of a pain. His support of the Iraq war is annoying, but he did support all of the filibusters. He is a real democrat. He just likes to get his name in the paper. He is a very pro defense democrat.