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6:55 PM ET, August 9, 2006

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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Exit Poll Results  —  Political Wire obtained a copy of the exit poll last night done by CBS News and the New York Times that provides some interesting insight into the views of Connecticut Democrats who voted in the primary yesterday.  —  Key findings:  — As expected, the war …
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New York Post:
LIEBERMAN'S LOSS: JOE WILL RISE AGAIN  —  REPORTS of Joe Lieberman's political death are (as Mark Twain once said of rumors of his own demise) "premature and grossly exaggerated."  Lieberman has lost a battle, but he can still win the war running as an independent.
Discussion: Austin Bay Blog and Power Line
New York Times:
Lieberman Begins Race as Independent  —  Ned Lamont announces his victory over Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primary for United States Senate from his campaign headquarters in Meriden, Conn. More Photos >  —  Democratic leaders expressed strong support today for Ned Lamont …
Joshua Micah Marshall / Time:
Lieberman Lost the Old-fashioned Way
Stephanie Reitz / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Lieberman files to run as independent
Discussion: My Left Nutmeg
Kos / Daily Kos:
CT-Sen: Winners and losers
Kat / WesPAC:
Urge Joe Lieberman to help Democrats
Discussion: Firedoglake
John / AMERICAblog:
Lieberman attacks Democratic party as full of "extremists" …
Discussion: Sirotablog and The Huffington Post
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John McIntyre / Real Clear Politics:
Dems Move Closer to McGovern's Losing Formula  —  Democrats lost the 2004 presidential election over leadership on national security.  Last night's win by anti-war Ned Lamont over pro-war Joe Lieberman, while joyous for the far-left netroots crowd, is a bad harbinger for future Democratic Party prospects nationally in 2008 and beyond.
Martin Peretz / The New Republic:
LAMONT'S UNSAVORY SUPPORTERS:  —  So Ned Lamont did defeat Joe Lieberman.  But Lamont won by just under four percentage points, a far cry from the huge margins he'd captured in the polls just a week ago.  Lieberman's concession speech was also a declaration of intent to run as an independent …
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Germanm / TheWorldNewser:
George Stephanopoulos: Can Karl help Joe?  —  According to a close Lieberman adviser, the President's political guru, Karl Rove, has reached out to the Lieberman camp with a message straight from the Oval Office: "The boss wants to help.  Whatever we can do, we will do."
MSNBC:
3 of 11 missing Egyptian students found  —  1 arrested in Minnesota, 2 others surrender in New Jersey … Three of 11 missing Egyptian students has been picked up - one in Minneapolis, Minn., and two in Manville, N.J., NBC News' Pete Williams reported.  —  The FBI confirmed the discovery …
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CNN:
Poll: 60 percent of Americans oppose Iraq war  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sixty percent of Americans oppose the U.S. war in Iraq, the highest number since polling on the subject began with the commencement of the war in March 2003, according to poll results and trends released Wednesday.
U.S. Newswire:
RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman Addresses The City Club Of Cleveland  —  Contact: Tracey Schmitt of the Republican National Committee Staff, 202-863-8614  —  CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ — RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman addressed the City Club of Cleveland this morning.
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Left or Right, Israelis Are Pro-War  —  As Israel's war with Hezbollah finishes a fourth difficult week, domestic criticism of its prosecution is growing.  Yet there is a paradoxical effect as well: the harder the war has been, the more the public wants it to proceed.
Boston Herald:
$tingy thanks for Iraq duty: Funds for tuition waivers MIA  —  Lawmakers have slammed the classroom door shut on Massachusetts soldiers home from Iraq and seeking to go to state college, failing to cough up $8 million needed for crucial tuition waivers.  —  Army and Air National Guard soldiers expecting …
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Where The Lattes Reign  —  If there was a way to obtain the per capita income and racial demographics of each Connecticut town, some politico cartographer wizard out there could have a field day portraying the economics and ethnicity of this race.  Ned Lamont, scion of the Eastern Establishment …
Rasmussen Reports:
Rhode Island Senate: Chafee Lagging by 6  —  Chaffee (R) 38%, Whitehouse (D) 44%  —  Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee, marginally leading his Democratic opponent in previous surveys, is trailing for the second Rasmussen Reports election poll in a row.  Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse now leads 44% to 38% (see crosstabs).
Discussion: TAPPED and Daily Kos
11alive.com:
McKinney Supporters, Media Scuffle  —  Outgoing Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney returned to her campaign headquarters to address her supporters after midnight Tuesday, soon after some of her staffers scuffled with news photographers.  —  During her concession speech, McKinney said her mother …
 
 
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Ross Douthat / The American Scene:
McGovern and Misgovernment: Nobody, right or left, defends George …
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Win for the wackadoo wing
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More Evidence That Lefties Have the Right Stuff
Discussion: Political Animal
Karin Laub / Associated Press:
Israel to push even deeper into Lebanon
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Shiites Press for a Partition of Iraq
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Lamont's Victory Exposes the True Nature of Campaign Finance "Reform"
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Muslim Charities Say Fear Is Damming Flow of Money
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
The Lieberman Lesson  —  IF you asked Senator Joseph I. Lieberman …
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Worst Press Conference Ever
USA Today:
Center for war-related brain injuries faces budget cut
Discussion: Making Light and The Agonist
Robert Cox / Examiner:
Dancing on Fidel's grave
David Keyes / Jerusalem Post:
Report: US sailor spied for Israel
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
McKinney's machine breaks down
 

 
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Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

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