Connecticut’s long-time Sens. Joe Lieberman (I) and Chris Dodd (D) are suffering in the latest Quinnipiac University poll.
Lieberman has a job approval rating of 45 percent and a disapproval rating of 43 percent, which is his worst showing ever in Quinnipiac’s poll.
“Sen. Lieberman’s approval rating has dropped below 50 percent for the first time in 14 years of polling, with nearly two-thirds of Democrats giving him low marks, probably because he is campaigning for Sen. John McCain,” wrote the poll’s director, Douglas Schwartz, in an analysis.
Dodd has an approval rating of 51 percent and a disapproval rating of 34 percent, which is Dodd’s worst showing in the Quinnipiac survey. Most voters — 59 percent — believe that reports that Dodd received special mortgages from Countrywide Financial deserves more investigation.
“Dodd’s job approval is lukewarm at best, especially given his 28 years of service in the U.S. Senate, the longest in Connecticut history,” Schwartz wrote. “This probably is a combination of his unsuccessful presidential bid and the mortgage scandal.”
Dodd is up for re-election in 2010, while Lieberman’s term ends in 2012.