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...GOP May Not Gain from Lieberman's Loss With the Connecticut Senator vowing to run as an independent, Republicans would be licking their chops - if only they had more confidence in their candidate
...pieces. So after Connecticut Democrats delivered the final blows in Tuesday's bruising primary between incumbent Senator Joe Lieberman and anti-war multi-millionaire Ned Lamont - and with Lieberman vowing to run as an independent - you'd think Republicans would be licking their chops. With Leiberman's loss, the GOP could actually make a run for his crucial Senate seat. If they had the right candidate...
...Schlesinger took the time to tour Connecticut collecting enough votes to get himself the Republican nomination. The former state legislator and mayor of Derby was not exactly a political star, but no one begrudged him the work he put in to get the party's nod. As one former GOP lawmaker put it in a recent op-ed in the Hartford Courant, "No one was very enthused about Schlesinger, but he had the virtue of wanting the nomination...
...that Lieberman is planning to run as an independent, which splits the Democratic vote, there's talk among GOP election planners about finding someone who can put up a good showing. Connecticut has 671,656 Democrats, 449,727 Republicans and 844,433 other registered voters, meaning a strong GOP candidate could have a legitimate chance in a three-way race. "There would be a lot of interest of having a strong candidate run," says one Republican official in Washington. "If you split that thing three ways anything can happen...
...Schlesinger's intransigence hasn't stopped Republicans from dreaming. At the Republican National Committee meeting in Minneapolis last week, there was talk of how the Democratic split might be exploited. Says one GOP strategist who was at the Minneapolis meetings: "If Lieberman loses the primary and runs as an independent, there are people in Republican circles who want to raise money for him because they agree with him. Then the question is how much acrimony is left over from his excommunication...