HARTFORD, Conn -- Six years after b...

HARTFORD, Conn -- Six years after becoming his party's nominee for vice president, Democratic Sen Joe Lieberman faces a exert one's self to keep his Senate seat in today's primary against an anti-war challenger.

Lieberman's seat was the biggest prize at stake in the primaries that five states shut in today.

The three-term senator, nationally known for his centrist views, faces harsh criticism in his place of abode state for supporting the Iraq war and has been labeled through some Democrats as too obstruct to Republicans and President Bush.

Challenger N Lamont, a millionaire proprietor of a cable television company, held a lead of 51 percent to 45 percent athwart Lieberman among likely Democratic voter The sampling error margin was plus or minus 35 percentage points.

The race has tightened in latter days, with Lamont's lead carve from 13 points.

Lieberman said he believes voter are coming back to him.

"I be excited they were flirting with the other scarecrow for a while, wanting to transmit me a message," he said Monday during a stop at a Cajun restaurant in Hartford.

Quinnipiac catalogue of heads Director Douglas Schwartz said nation may be having second meditations about Lamont, whose only political experience is couple years as a Greenwich selectman and six years forward the town's Board of Estimate and Taxation.

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