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Old guard Democrats fear backlash as Lieberman flounders

Top Democrats, including Senators Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid and Representative Rahm Emanuel, are obsessed with the number 51. That's the percentage of the vote they hope Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut gets in his Aug. 8 Democratic primary election. Lieberman, the party's vice presidential candidate just six years ago, is struggling. His close ties to the White House and support for the Iraq War have dismantled his support. Most observers attribute his predicament in large part to the Iraq war, which Lieberman strongly supports, but most Connecticut Democrats just as strongly oppose.

Lieberman's opponent in the upcoming Connecticut primary calls himself a “man of the people,” but Ned Lamont stands out from the crowd - not just because a well-known New York radio host recently described him as a "bug-eyed, pencil-neck geek."

Part of a wealthy Connecticut banking family, Lamont inherited one fortune, made himself another and married a third. His decision to invest his millions in his campaign to become a US senator has shaken the Democratic party and turned a seemingly routine state election race into a tantalising preview of the upcoming presidential battles over the war in Iraq.

To the dismay of the Democratic establishment, and to the delight of Republican strategists nervous about mid-term elections later this year, Lamont has plunged his party into a worrisome debate about its policy towards Iraq - or what critics describe as its lack of one.

Opinion polls show that Lamont, 52, is riding a wave of Democratic opposition to the war, magnified by resentment of Lieberman’s cosy relations with Bush. A photograph of the Republican president and the Democratic senator hugging last year helped Lamont to a four-point lead in the most recent poll.

“We have crazies running this country,” said Charlotte Koskoff, a local Democratic activist. “And Joe Lieberman is carrying water for them.”

July 30, 2006

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