Hipster, you're kidding yourself. Look at the actual numbers and see what's going to happen.
In 2004, 1,400,000 Connecticut voters cast ballots for the Senatorial election. This year, its probably safe to assume the number will be similar, as even though it's an off year, the race has garnered lots of attention. But even for argument's sake, let's say 200,000 lest voters turn out.
Okay. So now, we've got a total of 1,200,000 voters turning out to vote in this election. In the primary, Lamont got 146,000 votes while Lieberman got 136,000.
That means that there are going to be around 918,000 voters in the general election who haven't voted for either Lamont or Lieberman yet this year. If the crowd who voted in the Democratic primary (who is generally the most active and most liberal) only picked Lamont by 2 percent, you don't think that the MASSIVE amount of moderates in CT will pick Joe, even if only by, say, 5%? That would give Lieberman an 85,000 vote swing, much more than enough to pick off Lamont's 10,000 vote lead. And in reality, the swing is going to be a lot more than 5%. I'm sorry, but the general public of CT is much closer to Joe than to Ned, and they trust and believe in him. Plus, he's got the knowledge of how to work the last months of a race which is absolutely crucial.
Schlesinger is not going to be a factor in this race, he'll do better than 6% but not better than 15. The Republicans are mostly just making noise about replacing him right now, hoping to get Joe worried so that he asks them not to. This would give him something to think about when deciding where to caucus.
Lamont had his run, made his point, and is done with. It's clear he doesn't have the qualifications to be a Senator.
