Lieberman loses to newcomer in Connecticut primary

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

The Connecticut Senate race dominated the political landscape in recent weeks, as Lamont demonstrated the power of anti-war sentiment among Democrats with his campaign. Lamont is the millionaire owner of a cable television company but his political career is limited to serving as a town selectman and member of the town tax board.

It was a race watched closely by the liberal, Internet-savvy Democrats who lead the party's emerging "netroots" movement, groups such as Moveon.org that played a big role in pushing Lamont's candidacy.

Officials said turnout was heavy, up to to 50 percent.

On the final day of the race, Lieberman accused his opponent's supporters of hacking his campaign Web site and e-mail system. Campaign manager Sean Smith said the site began having problems Monday night and crashed for good at 7 a.m., denying voters information about the candidate.

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Seeing as how this story has been wall-to-wall for months now on the bigtime liberal blogs, I've purposely stayed away from it. But I've been watching, pretty much buying the line that a Lamont victory could be the shot heard 'round the world as far as a revitalized Democratic Party is concerned. I mean, I know Lamont's not nearly as far to the left as I am, but at least he appears to be a real liberal, a moderate liberal, yes, but not a pro-war, pro-corporate, pro-Bush zombie conservative like Lieberman. Most of the so-called "netroots" that have supported the Lamont campaign have rejected the conservative allegation that doing so constitutes a "purge" of the Democrats' more right-wing elements: personally, I agree with the conservatives here; this is a purge, regardless of what the "netroots" say, and it's been a long time in coming. That is, I'm all for purging the Party of these pandering trailer trash Dems, and that includes both Clintons. I'm all for making my tormented decisions about voting for the Greens a moot point. I'm all for liberals actually speaking, voting, and behaving as though they were actually liberals. Purge all those fuckers. Let 'em join the GOP, which is where they belong, so they can fight the extremists who have successfully made everybody think that "conservative" really means "moderate" and that "Nazi" actually means "conservative."

Here's the real info on the Lieberman site's "hacking."

Apparently, Lieberman is going to go through with his threat to run as an independent--why doesn't he just become a Republican? I'm sure they'd love to have him.

Also, according to the above linked AP article, it's looking like Atlanta voters have had enough of Cynthia McKinney's antics. In no way does this affect the strong and disturbing allegations of entrenched racism on the Capitol Hill Police force.

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