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The challenger’s vigorous, plain-spoken broadsides against the war attracted the attention of progressive activists and bloggers. From the beginning, most prospective Lamont voters said they were supporting him out of dislike for Lieberman . In a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday, 54% of Lamont voters said that was the main reason they support him. “Not to say anything bad about the Lamont campaign,” said Kenneth Dautrich, a public policy professor at the University of Connecticut, “but this has always been about Lieberman. “Lieberman became a Democratic star in the ’90s, a time when the party worried about losing touch with an increasingly conservative electorate. The son of a liquor store owner in Stamford, Conn. , Lieberman began running for office as a high school student and never stopped tanglewood music festival. At Yale University, he wrote an admiring senior thesis on John M summer festival . Bailey, Connecticut’s cigar-chewing political boss whose motto was “You gotta do what you gotta do. “Lieberman, 64, is an Orthodox Jew who has observed the Sabbath throughout his career, refraining from driving, writing or talking on the telephone chamber music festival . A mild-mannered figure in the Senate, he took stands on moral issues — he chastised Hollywood for glamorizing sex and violence — and won high marks in the labor and environmental movements.

Alongside an old friend, Bill Clinton, he cultivated a reputation as a centrist. Lieberman was the first non-Southern U. S senator to endorse Clinton in 1992 . But six years later, he became President Clinton’s most prominent Democratic critic, siding increasingly with the GOP on issues such as fundraising tactics music festival guide . Hullabalou Music Festival tickets In 1998, he rebuked the president in the thick of the Monica S festival july . Lewinsky scandal, calling Clinton’s behavior “immoral and harmful. ” He was the first Democrat to do so. Democrats’ grievances against Lieberman have mounted since then festival 2007 . Many in the party resent the fact that he did not drop out of the race for his Senate seat in 2000, when Al Gore selected him as a vice presidential running mate; others are angry that he backed Republican efforts to prevent the removal of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube, or that he voted to prevent a Democratic filibuster of Supreme Court Justice Samuel A.

Alito Jr. But the fundamental complaint from liberals has been Lieberman’s support of the war in Iraq, which seemed to grow stronger as other Democrats lined up against it Hullabalou Music Festival – consequenceofsound . In December, he chided President Bush’s critics, saying that “in matters of war we undermine presidential credibility at our nation’s peril. ” He was one of six Democrats this summer to vote against a resolution calling for U. S music festival 2009 . forces to begin leaving Iraq this year. Lieberman’s friendly relationship with Republicans became the Lamont campaign’s favorite emblem festival tickets . Lamont’s supporters wear buttons portraying “the Kiss” — a moment when Lieberman embraced Bush after his 2005 State of the Union address music festivals Hullabalou Music Festival . And a television advertisement aired this summer showed Lieberman’s face morphing into Bush’s as an announcer intoned, “If it sounds like George W Bush, and acts like George W. Bush, it’s certainly not a Connecticut Democrat. “When Democrats convened in May to nominate a candidate, Lamont won 33% of the delegates, more than twice what he needed to force Lieberman into a primary race. Tom Matzzie, the executive director of Move On. org Political Action, said activists found themselves “in the right place at the right time” in a year when MoveOn members’ priorities — the war in Iraq, healthcare, energy and “standing up to Bush” — aligned with the concerns of Connecticut voters Hullabalou Music Festival – hullabaloufest . Marshall Wittman of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, who supports Lieberman, said Lamont has allowed himself to be defined by his left-wing supporters. “Had it not been for the involvement of the Democratic left, the party would be fairly united going into midterm elections,” he said.