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Conn Carroll / Blogometer:
8/9: Nightmares and Dreamscapes — Savour this moment. Cable exec Ned Lamont's (D) CT Dem primary win over Sen. Joe Lieberman (D) may well be the last time for a long time that bloggers from the left and right are genuinely pleased with the exact same election result.
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Lamont Defeats Lieberman in Primary — Ned Lamont, left, celebrated after winning the Connecticut primary. Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, right, waved to supporters after conceding the race. More Photos > — Ned Lamont, a Connecticut millionaire whose candidacy for the United States Senate soared …
New York Times:
Revenge of the Irate Moderates — The defeat of Senator Joseph Lieberman at the hands of a little-known Connecticut businessman is bound to send a message to politicians of both parties that voters are angry and frustrated over the war in Iraq. The primary upset was not, however …
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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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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.
Brendan Loy / The Irish Trojan's Blog:
Time for a divorce — Okay, I'm calling it. It's over. Ned Lamont has won the primary. Democrats in my home state of Connecticut have seen fit to give their incumbent U.S. senator, the honorable Joseph Lieberman, the old heave-ho. Get out of our party, the Democratic voters have told Joe.
michaelmoore.com:
It's All About Who You Sleep With ... a Cautionary Note from Michael Moore — Let the resounding defeat of Senator Joe Lieberman send a cold shiver down the spine of every Democrat who supported the invasion of Iraq and who continues to support, in any way, this senseless, immoral, unwinnable war.
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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.
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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Phil Singer / dscc.org:
Statement from Senators Reid and Schumer
Statement from Senators Reid and Schumer
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Blogger Takes Aim At News Media and Makes a Direct Hit — Charles Johnson could tell there was something wrong with the news photo the minute he saw it. Something about the three plumes of black smoke rising over the buildings — smoke just doesn't curl that way, pirouetting in unison.
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New York Times:
Bloggers Drive Inquiry on How Altered Images Saw Print — A photographer has been accused of doctoring a photo of an Israeli air raid on Beirut. The manipulated image, left, and the original picture, right. — As of yesterday afternoon, Adnan Hajj was the most-searched term on the Technorati Web site …
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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."
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.
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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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Joshua Micah Marshall / Time:
Lieberman Lost the Old-fashioned Way — He was out of touch with voters. And he's not alone. His defeat foreshadows an upheaval to come in November — So who brought Joe Lieberman down? Was it the liberal blogs? Was Lieberman the first political casualty of the Iraq War? — Both.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
McKinney's machine breaks down — It was once thought she had an invincible political machine that could turn out the masses on command. — Late Tuesday night, that machine looked broken and her forces in disarray as six-term 4th District congresswoman and perennial firebrand Cynthia McKinney …
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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Hotline On Call:
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 …
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