Obviously Joe Lieberman was defeated because of the war. Three term incumbents don�t lose primaries because of their personal peccadilloes. But there is a side to Joe Lieberman that very few people are familiar with. Joe Lieberman played an important role in laying the basis for the accounting scandals of the stock bubble era.
The Joe Lieberman Nobody Knows
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