Apologies for posting twice on Joe Lieberman in the same day, but Markos Moulitsas commissioned another poll in CT on the 2006 Senate race and how Connecticut voters think about their choices today.

Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 3/31-4/2. Regular voters. MoE 4% (9/10-12/2007 results)

If you could vote again for U.S. Senate, would you vote for Ned Lamont, the Democrat, Alan Schlesinger, the Republican, or Joe Lieberman, an Independent?

All

Lamont (D) 51 (48)
Lieberman (I) 37 (40)
Schlesinger (R) 7 (9)

Democrats

Lamont (D) 74 (72)
Lieberman (I) 19 (25)
Schlesinger (R) 2 (3)

Republicans

Lamont (D) 4 (7)
Lieberman (I) 74 (69)
Schlesinger (R) 19 (24)

Independents

Lamont (D) 53 (49)
Lieberman (I) 36 (38)
Schlesinger (R) 6 (9)

Lieberman has shored up his support with Republicans, who clearly see him as one of their own. He has predictably lost ground among Democrats. But interestingly, he also lost the same amount of ground (six points) with independents.

Clearly, his whole “independent” schtick isn’t playing well with real independent voters. I’ll have more on this poll later today. The crosstabs are below the fold. Crosstabs for last year’s poll can be found here.

I think this yet again shows both how successful Joe Lieberman was in 2006 at lying to the people of Connecticut about who he was and what he stood for. Would anyone believe him if today Lieberman were to say, “No one wants to end the war in Iraq more than I do”? Voters shouldn’t have believed them in 2006, but as our dear President says, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice…you can’t get fooled again.”

This poll also shows how fed up Connecticut voters are with Lieberman’s embrace of a far right wing world view. It’s not what he ran on and independent voters have not been rewarded for their faith in the man’s long-perceived moderate views. Add to that a rise in Ned Lamont’s popularity and it’s safe to say that people in Connecticut now recognize how much they screwed the pooch by reelecting Lieberman.