Lamont ahead in latest poll

This makes me nearly blind with anger. The latest Quinnipiac poll shows Lamont edging ahead of Lieberman for the August 8th primary.

The poll still shows Lieberman winning in November, though. The poll states:

Anti-war Connecticut U.S. Senate candidate Ned Lamont has surged to a razor-thin 51 - 47 percent lead over incumbent Sen. Joseph Lieberman among likely Democratic primary voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

In possible general election matchups: Lieberman defeats Republican challenger Alan Schlesinger 68 - 15 percent; Lamont beats Schlesinger 45 - 22 percent, with 24 percent undecided; Running as an independent, Lieberman gets 51 percent, to 27 percent for Lamont and 9 percent for Schlesinger.

My growing disgust at Lamont is barely contained.

He had the gall to show up at the Pro-Israel rally last night at the local JCC. He got some applause and, thankfully, some boos. Then when Lieberman's message to us was read, there was a resounding - and repudiating - applause.

Why "gall"? Because all of the political messages that were read were from elected officials - our already elected representatives. For Lamont to show up was so he can suck up votes - and this was a rally for us to express solidarity and support in a time of war, not for vote-schnorring.

Given that his only issue is to attack Lieberman on Iraq, how dare he posture that he is pro-Israel? The two constituencies do not correlate! The odds that he legitimately opposes the Iraq war yet supports Israel are infinitesimal. It's just an example of his whoring for votes.