With all the ado about Clark abandoning Iowa, it's easy to overlook Lieberman's own decision. So, what is Joe's strategy? Hartford Courant columnist Jim Shea
has the scoop (tongue firmly planted in cheek):
In a break with convention, the campaign will not worry about winning early primaries to generate momentum, preferring instead to focus on simply having the most delegates when the process is mercifully completed.
First off, the campaign will not be spending time in Alaska, Nevada, Colorado or Utah, because they don't have presidential primaries, and as the Lieberman folks like to point out: "There are no flies on us."
The campaign will also bypass Idaho, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming, due to the fact that no one lives there.
Next, you can eliminate New Mexico, North Dakota, Michigan, Washington, Maine, Hawaii, Minnesota and the District of Columbia because they have caucuses rather than primaries, and, basically the testosterone-spiked Lieberman faithful are of the opinion that real candidates don't caucus.
Still another primary bloc that will be avoided are states from which a rival Democratic candidate hails, thus subtracting Vermont (Dean), Massachusetts (Kerry), Missouri (Gephardt), Ohio (Kucinich), North Carolina (Edwards), Illinois (Braun), Arkansas (Clark) and New York (Sharpton).
Finally, the Lieberman brain trust will see no sense in wasting resources in New Jersey, Washington, Oregon, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, or Maryland, states in which Democratic voters tend to be too Democratic.