A brand new Quinnipiac Poll of likely Democratic primary voters has Ned Lamont in the lead by 13% at 54%-41%, up from 51%-47% just two weeks ago. Why is Lamont ahead? It's the newest 4-letter word: IRAQ.

Lieberman's support for the war in Iraq is the main reason they are voting for the challenger, 44 percent of Lamont voters say, with 50 percent who say the war is one of the reasons.

So 94% of Lamont's voters are angry enough over the disaster in Iraq to make that a reason for voting against Holy Joe Lieberman, despite his incessant whining, his pork-delivery bragging, his mega-hyped endorsements from Bill & Hillary, his debate bullying, his character assassinating, and his party-sabotage blackmailing.

Democratic voters are sending a crystal-clear message to Joe Lieberman, to the Democratic Party establishment, and to the Washington political-media establishment: Iraq is a debacle and it's time to get out.

But is anyone listening?

As DemFromCT writes in "The Myth Of The Angry Left,"

For (at least) the next six days we'll have to put up with a steady stream of "Angry Left" articles from hack writers who don't know the difference between Norwich and Norwalk.

The hack writer is David Segal of the Washington Post, who wrote a long article about the race yet didn't speak to a single regular voter!

The Corporate Media doesn't get a rat's ass about American voters. And that's why the neocons plan to stay in Iraq forever.

Joe Lieberman's only enthusiastic support is coming from neocons.

That's why we must do everything we can to help Ned Lamont in the "final push" to election day on Tuesday.

Update 1: Samuel Johnson said "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."

And so Lieberman's wonderfully concentrated mind has finally figured out that Iraq is a debacle. And as Christy Hardin Smith reports, Lieberman is suddenly criticizing the Bush administration for screwing up the war!

"I supported our war in Iraq but I have always questioned the way it was being executed," Lieberman said.

"This administration took far too many shortcuts. We continue to suffer the consequences, as do the Iraqi people."

Unfortunately Lieberman's death-bed conversion is a little, shall we say, unconvincing. Let's go to the videotape...

Here’s a YouTube of Joe Lieberman leading off for the Republican argument in the Senate on the latest attempt to reign in the mess that is Iraq at the hands of George Bush.  Watch here to see Lieberman start the debate for the Republicans. 

Here’s Joe Lieberman at the beginning of the Iraq mess, and he can’t get to the microphone fast enough to praise George Bush’s eloquence.

And here’s Joe Lieberman, in response to Rep. Jack Murtha’s call for a withdrawal of troops.  (Hint:  Before the primary got close, Lieberman wasn’t supportive.)

There is always the ever popular STFU Democrats — don’t criticize the President, ever, or you put us all at risk.  Can you say final straw?

Lieberman, and his attack chicken Attila the Hen, may have convinced some journalists at the NYTimes and the NYDailyNews that he’s been thinking this about the Iraq mess for a while, but the tape doesn’t lie.  This new attitude is for one reason alone:  Lieberman wants to win the primary, and he’s willing to say anything to get there.

Update 2: Lamont's opposition to the Iraq War comes straight from his gut - and his family. Brita Belli of the Hartford Advocate captures Lamont's feelings beautifully (h/t tparty):

Sitting at a cafe in downtown Bridgeport, drinking iced tea and devouring most of the contents of a bread basket, Lamont described when the Iraq War first became personal for his family. Lamont recounted how his cousin´s son suffered serious shrapnel wounds while fighting in Fallujah two years ago. He tells the story with dramatic simplicity worthy of a Hollywood script.

¨He was thrown back hard, took a couple shots at this insurgent, got him,¨ Lamont says. ¨This guy went down, but he was wired. Totally wired with explosives. And when he dropped his gun, it exploded and it was shrapnel from that that took out my cousin´s son. And he went to the Green Zone, to the hospital, was in a slow recovery there ... He was looking out the window and a kid was outside the gate getting closer and closer and closer, and the guards were saying, ´prohibited´... That´s one of the problems. We´ve got 130,000 troops they can´t communicate with anybody, ´Go away, go away, not safe.´ The kid got closer. And they went out to turn the kid around, get him away from the hot zone there. And his dad was behind some bush with a cell phone, using that to remote-detonate his child. Blew up and took out two of our GIs with him.

¨We have no idea the nature of the war we´re in over there. And I was always opposed to the war. I just thought it was badly conceived, naïve going in there. I´ve heard thousands of stories since ... You know who´s most opposed to this war? It´s veterans, it´s parents with kids there.¨