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Originally Posted by ricechex
well, good luck. CT is a blue state and has been for many years.
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YES, BUT JOE LIEBERMAN IS A DEMOCRAT!!!!! People don't vote along party lines!!!!! Even if only 15 percent of Democrats vote Lieberman in this election, you realize that the Republican candidate will win, don't you?
That's what happens when you split a vote.
Ross Perot is why Bill Clinton won with such a large majority in the 90's (Despite the fact that we had 12 years of a Republican majority in both the federal and legislative branches).
In the Ross Perot example... you have two conservative candidates. You have George Bush and Ross Perot. However, you have only one liberal candidate, Bill Clinton. So, even if 55 percent of the U.S. is registered Republican, and 45 percent of the U.S. is registered Democrat, and assuming that everyone votes along conservative/liberal lines... If 15 percent of the Republicans voted for Ross Perot...all of a sudden you have 15 percent for Perot, 40 percent for Bush and 45 percent for Clinton.
Even tho in this hypothetical example there are 10 percent more conservatives than liberals, the liberal wins the election, because the conservative vote is split.
In CT, Lieberman on the ballot (he already has twice as many signatures as he needs to get on the ballot, so face it, he's there) will split the liberal vote, giving the Repub candidate a victory.
It's simple mathematics, it's almost impossible for a party to win with a split vote on their side.