| Millionaire businessman Ned Lamont opened a double-digit lead over veteran Sen. Joe Lieberman less than a week before Connecticut's Democratic primary, according to a poll released Thursday. Lamont, a political novice, has support from 54 percent of likely Democratic voters in the Quinnipiac University poll, while Lieberman, now in his third term, has support from 41 percent of voters. The sampling error margin was plus or minus 3 percentage points. With 11 percent of the state's precincts reporting just before 9 p.m., Lieberman was trailing challenger Ned Lamont 57 to 43 percent. The vote tally was 19,591 for Lamont and 15,072 for Lieberman. |