The End for Weepin'Joe?

[kent_allard_jr]

It's gonna be close, but so far it looks like Ned Lamont will beat Joe Lieberman for the Democratic nomination. I didn't like Lieberman when he beat Lowell Weicker in 1988, and like him even less today, so I'm happy to see him lose. On the other hand... The Republicans will make Lieberman a cause celebré (a role Lieberman will be all too happy to fill) and they'll make the Martyrdom of Holy Joe an issue in November. The Lamont campaign may have also sucked up resources that could've been spent taking back the House of Representatives. I'll be happy to be proven wrong, of course.

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[womzilla.livejournal.com]

"The big pool of money" idea as Duncan Black dismisses it. No national Democratic party money went to the race, obviously, though I'm sure some PACs contributed. However, Lieberman ran his campaign on the cheap until right at the end, when it was too late to do any good. I donated to the Lamont campaign; I've never donated to another state's senatorial primary before, and I don't think I was unique. It won't affect my other spending--in fact, backing a winner in such an obviously righteous cause makes me more likely to spend more, because I feel like there's a reason for once. So that's money that simply wasn't there before.