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Are they afraid he might win? Wouldn't that just mean that he was the most popular among his constituants in CT.
Is it that they are afraid he'll split the vote and put the republican in office? At the moment the poles do not make that case. If anything he is preventing progressive republicans from voting for the republican by running, since clearly that's who his detractors have always said his base was.
Is it that they are afraid that by running as an independent this minor vitory of the blogosphere will be undone, by lieberman winning, and the democrats will realize that bending to irrational elements of your party is a bad thing?
Lots of differnt options available, the republican is not even a factor in current polls, of course that can change, and if it turns out that some one might spoil the election and put the republican in office, I guess we'll just have to see who at the time has the broadest support, in the state of CT, and ask the other guy to graciously step down.
I guess that's the real fear, that when they realize how unelectable Lamont is, they will have to step down or show themselves as the real spoiler.
Time will tell.
