Demagogue

A new Quinnipiac poll in Connecticut offers both bad news and good news for Democratic Senate nominee Ned Lamont. On the one hand:

Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman, running as an independent, gets 53 percent of likely voters, with 41 percent for Democratic primary winner Ned Lamont and 4 percent for Republican Alan Schlesinger ...

A 12-point deficit shouldn't thrill Lamont. But it does indicate that he's made a substantial gain from where this 3-way race stood last month:

This compares to a 51-27 percent Lieberman lead over Lamont, with 9 percent for Schlesinger in a July 20 poll by the independent Quinnipiac University.