One final Lieberman post -- This race has tightened

From The New York Times:

[On Monday] Mr. Lieberman, the three-term incumbent whose support for the Iraq war has cost him voters, held nine events over 13 hours and exuded fresh optimism on the ninth day of a statewide bus tour. He also spent tens of thousands of dollars on an unconventional two-minute television ad in which he aligned himself with Democratic anger over Iraq and President Bush — an attempt to neutralize Mr. Lamont’s signature antiwar message.

The Connecticut race, which has been regarded by some Democrats nationally as a referendum on the party’s wartime posture, had been tilting in Mr. Lamont’s favor in the last two weeks, according to public opinion polls and anecdotal evidence from voters. Yet Mr. Lieberman seemed buoyed yesterday by a new poll from Quinnipiac University that showed him down by 6 points, within the poll’s margin of sampling error.

More than in recent days, the senator came across as both contrite and self-satisfied yesterday. He lamented that he had not “clarified” his criticism of the war and the White House earlier, but he also argued that Republicans were “salivating” over the possibility that Democrats would pick an antiwar liberal instead of Mr. Lieberman.

“They are anxious to say the left wing is taking over, the antisecurity wing,” Mr. Lieberman said of Republicans.

The Lieberman camp, tapping into more than $400,000 in new donations in the last several days, made the new two-minute commercial just yesterday, drawing wholly on excerpts from a major, hastily planned speech by Mr. Lieberman on Sunday about his war stance. The ad, which mixes images of him speaking and people listening, shows Mr. Lieberman saying that he felt a “heavy personal responsibility” for the war, wanted to bring troops home “as fast as anyone,” and valued Americans’ “right to disagree” with the president and himself over Iraq.