I would first like to start off by saying that I hoped everyone had a great summer. As all of us here at UB get back into the groove of classes, the political world is in the middle of an election year. Democrats are fighting strongly to take over seats in both the House and Senate. The Republican party is trying to maintain their majority status, but it looks as though a couple Republican seats are going
to be hard to keep.Here in Connecticut, longtime senator Joe Lieberman (D) is in a fierce battle with Ned Lamont (D) who earlier this summer beat out Lieberman for the Democratic party nomination. Joe Lieberman’s support for
the war in Iraq is hurting him in the polls,as many politicians are trying as hard as they can to distance themselves from Bush’s policies and agendas, Lieberman is certainly walking his own path. After almost becoming Vice President in 2000, Joe Lieberman is not going to give up that easily, although he lost the Democratic party nomination to Lamont, he has not given up on winning the election.He is going to continue in the election as an
independent. Although he was trailing in the polls amongst his Democratic constituencies previously, he is now leading in polls as an independent strongly due in part to much support from Republicans.
The Republican nominee, Alan Schlesinger,
only has single digit ratings in the polls and is virtually inconsequential in this election.It would be in Leibermann’s best interest to run as a Republican, as that is the vote he needs to win. In my opinion, Leibermann will still be our senator after the election is over,but it should be interesting to watch.