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In a Quinnipiac University poll released earlier this month, 73 percent of the registered Connecticut Republicans surveyed gave him a thumbs up — a percentage point higher than the approval rating he got from Democrats, but within the margin of sampling error.
Of all registered voters surveyed, just 15 percent said they disapproved of his work, and 12 percent didn't know or didn't answer.
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In 2000 — when Lieberman was on the ballot in Connecticut for both vice president and a third Senate term — he collected 63 percent of the vote to beat former Waterbury Mayor Philip Giordano. Giordano is now serving 37 years in prison for molesting two girls.
So far Lieberman has hired four full-time fund-raisers. And his former chief of staff, Michael Lewan, now a Washington, D.C., lobbyist, is hosting a fund-raiser for Lieberman Thursday that is expected to collect about $25,000.
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