Demonstrate Your Confidence

The Connecticut State Elections Enforcement Commission has ruled that Sen. Joseph Lieberman may run for re-election in the Senate, even though he is also running for Vice President on the Democratic ticket with Al Gore. Fairfield University political science Professor John Orman had filed a complaint with the Commission, charging that the dual run should be declared “frivolous” and “irresponsibly self-indulgent,” and requesting he be stricken from the state ballot. “The U.S. Senate seat is too important to fill on the run,” Lieberman says. “I am going to stay on the [state] ballot.” If he wins both elections, Lieberman would have to resign from the Senate, and Connecticut's Republican governor would get to appoint a successor; he has said he would appoint a Republican. (AP) ...And if he loses both, Lieberman will be remembered about as well as Tom Eagleton.