and the young people like you, Matt, will change it. I have faith in you and your peers.

[new] Andrea, it's NED LAMONT (none / 0)

Not Nick, you stupid nitwit MRs Greenspan. I felt like screaming at Andrea as she kept getting his name wrong.

I think the quasi death threat is overstating it Matt. It wasnt even quasi. Just a pathetic attempt by Joe to act all righteous and victimized and act like how it would be nice if he "could rise above his dignified behavior and do to Dodd what he deserves".

Let's make fun of it. I do understand you used the word quasi. Let's just call it passive aggressive.

Matt, regarding the guy who had no clue how to assess the canddiates. Maybe you should have told Mr Clueless that "even if you are not sure removing troops is good or bad, you do know that going to Iraq was definitely a bad idea. So shouldn;t you consider that as a factor. Ned may or may not be doing the perfect thing, but Lieerman has already done the wrong thing, and may continue to do so. So shouldn't uncertainty be preferable to definite failure?"

that's Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

I do still give generously to Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa, to support services for women. Nothing to their PAC, though.

The DC Democrats' failure to get behind Lamont is an incredible indictment. I don't know which is worse--their cynicism or their stupidity. The really infuriating thing is that if we gain 6 seats and Joe flips to keep the Senate in GOP control, the netroots will be blamed for the whole mess.

I hope Lamont can pull off a miracle on Tuesday. I never thought Lieberman would be able to hang on to a third of Democrats while keeping the GOP candidate in single digits.

I still think Lamont is going to win this.  But if he doesn't, the progressives will not forget the shameful lack of support he got from the DSSC and his fellow Democrats in the Senate.  May every one of them have to endure vicious primary challenges.

This just shows that this election cycle is just one battle in a long war. In 2002 it was the entire establishment both Dem and Repub against Dean. Now they support Lieberliar and all those "centrists" that Rahm and Schumer wanted. At least we have made some progress. Lamont beat Lieberliar in the primary. Many other grassroots candidates beat the establishment triangulators. Some will win the general election next Tue.

Unless we keep up the fight and pressure we will not be able to win the war. This is all block & tackle. Each inch we win will have to be ground out. It requires perseverance and patience.

Man, I can't believe she said "Nick Lamont" twice, and Dodd didn't correct her.  Not very quality journalism when you can't even get the name right of the person you're talking about.

At the same time, this tirade blaming everyone from Harry Reid to Planned Parenthood for Lamont being behind in the polls really turns people off.

"Quasi death threat"?  Chris Dodd was the first to say he'd bring a food tester to their next lunch together, and Lieberman responded (not initiated) that he might bring Don Corleone.  Hardly Lieberman saying "I'm gonna kill dat fuckin Dodd guy."

As far as support for gay marriage, a MAJORITY of Democrats don't support it, either.  They don't support a ban against it, but most Democrats tend to believe that states should be able to decide whether to allow gay marriage or not.  The reason Lieberman was endorsed by HRC, an organization which I proudly support, is that he has a record of voting for pro-gay issues.  Ned Lamont would too, but he's not in the Senate.

Lieberman is pro-choice.  He's been endorsed by all the major pro-choice groups because he has a record of supporting abortion rights.  Again, I am a financial contributor to Planned Parenthood and their endorsement of Lieberman was based on record versus Lamont's rhetoric/positions.  Lamont would probably be a strong pro-chocie senator, Lieberman has proven to be one.

Lieberman is pro-environment, hence he received the support of major environmental groups.  Again, he has a record of opposing drilling in ANWR, investing in researching renewable energy resources, and increasing CAFE standards and gas mileage in vehicles.  Lamont might be a great environmentalist senator, Lieberman has proven to be one.

Lamont destroys Lieberman on the issue of Iraq.  Iraq is Lieberman's weak point.  Lieberman has seemingly waffled on the war position lately, as a result of Lamont's charge.

I think Lieberman has enough problems that the bloggers don't have to make up quotes (like calling Lamont a 'big jerk'), distort his positions, and criticize those who support him.  Lamont has still not made a compelling case as to why he should be the next CT Senator.  He's made a fine case of why Joe shouldn't, but he hasn't "sold" himself.

This choice is for Connecticut voters, not people like me, Kos or Matt Stoller.

I should add that as a politician I despise Lieberman.  I think he is responsible for Gore's loss in the 2000 election.

I enjoyed him in the 2004 election because it was like watching a train accident.  He was blindsided by Gore's endorsement of Howard Dean; he proclaimed he had "Joementum"; he thought all the way through the Oklahoma primary that he'd be the Democratic nominee.

Watching Joe Lieberman's campaign was like watching Alan Keyes run for the Republican nomination in 2000, and for Senate in 2004.

Matt, whats the odds that Liberman well change party affiliation from Indy back to Dem?

I can't believe that CT is falling for all of this crap.  Whatever happens, Lamont is a real American.  As for the Dems, they are evil and corrupt - only just not as bad as the Republicans.  People in this country better wake up to how corrupt our politics and system of government has become.  We make Mexico look good!   It has to be stopped and only the people can do it.  I just wish all the blogs would get together, pick 3 or so goals, and they focus like a laser beam on getting them done.  And please folks - no money to the DSCC or the DCCC and not even the DNC after Dean leaves.  We need to pick real candidates - not a pile of conservative Blue Dogs - to back.  If we don't believe in our message and don't think we are "main stream" then we shouldn't win.  

  We get the government we deserve.

 Anyone who votes for Lieberman permanently abdicates his right to voice concerns over Iraq (or Iran).

 This is your chance to do something about Iraq, Connecticut voters. If you pass on this opportunity, and I hear ONE COMPLAINT about your sons and daughers getting sent off to die some more, well... the sympathy well's going to be pretty dry around these parts...

There are two parties: Us and Them.

To the insiders, Joe is 'Us'. And ultimately, protecting Us is more important.

I am so sick of the Human Rights Campaign.  What an incompetent bunch of assholes.  Their advocacy for OPPONENTS of marriage equality and their opposition to its most eloquent, outspoken advocates here in Maryland is evidence of their shit-headed mentality.  (Sorry to curse on your site but endorsing those who oppose your interests is the definition of obscene.)

It is difficult for me to imagine why I might ever donate money to a single issue group again.  Who needs them?  If I want to support a pro-equality/pro-choice/pro-environment/ pro-transit candidate, I don't need an HRC/NARAL/Sierra Club, etc.  Bekkaus I is a collej grajuwhat, and ken reed.  

Why the inefficiency of passing the money through the extra sieve of such organizations, replete with their huge overhead?  Other than the tax deduction (which only sometimes applies), I cannot see why I would do so.

Better to give the money to community-based organizations.  If I want to help gay people, I will either give to pro-gay candidates or maybe to the GLCC of Baltimore.  If I want to help fight sexual assault, I will give to sexual assault crisis centers in my county or the adjacent one.  This way, I cannot get snookered into backing retrograde assholes like whoever the local issue advovacy group's significant other or "best pal" works for or used to date, which is how I suspect some of these obscenely counter-productive endorsements must arise.

Re the late deciding voters in the campaign, I think they really won't respond to specific items or issues or topics.  Some folks just don't evaluate things that way and machine-gunning data at them just makes them uncomfortable.  That doesn't mean that they can't make a decision or are incapable of changning their mind.

Perhaps, one can prompt a better response by just asking them why they think they'll get a different outcome out of Washington if they keep sending the same ole' guys down there.  Especially, when it's the same guys who have been there for nearly twenty years and don't seem to have been able to get anything done to benefit the listener.  If they're happy with the way their Senator or legislator has managed things for them, then, by all means, vote for the incumbent.   If they're not, then they must change the legislator if they want change.  You know they'll make the correct choice.  And then just shut up and end the conversation.  

If the heads of the CT voters remain lodged in their asses through Tuesday, and Joe returns to DC, CT will be getting a bastard representative.  He will be a man no longer taken seriously by most in his nominal Party, and will be hectored and scorned constantly by the likes of Kos, Stoller, Atrios, and Matt Stoller.

I would guess he decamps fairly soon to join an ill-fated Independent push for the presidency with the vulgar Bloomberg or McCain if he loses the Republican nomination.

This twat makes Borat look right on the money about Murkkkans. The 'folks' at the top of  the heap think they don't have to be good at their jobs anymore.

They are going to be surprised when they find out otherwise.

Who is gonna need this Twat to tell them the 'news', largely inaccurate, when you can go on the Internet and read and discuss the truth.

Buh-bye 'elite' news idiots.

Frankly, progressive though I be, it will take years to transform this nation - if at all - from a fear-based, culture of war to one of hope, and compassion, away from the us/them paradigm.

Elections come and go. Knee jerk "throw the bumbs out" because we've been in Iraq too damn long and we're losing does not make a movement, let a lone a progressive movement. This is just moment by moment exploitation of a crisis in time. The hearts, mind and soul of America have not registered one bleep on the the radar screen out of the molde we've formed that keeps us "staying the course".

A movement is needed. The ground work must be layed for real change. And that aint even begun. As Lakoff rightly said, all the frames are right-wing frames. Developed and deployed over decades. Putting Dems in who have adopted the right-wing frames does nothing to move this nation in a direction from the trajectory pushed by Ronald Reagon and continued ever to this day (including those triangluated Clinton years).

The Dems are just more of the same - granted I hope they win to stop the maddness for a moment. But real change? You won't get it without a real progressive movement and a changing of the frames that defines the world views Americans hold.

I truly believe that Lamont carries the beginning of a course change. He is the symbolic outsider, the un-politician. He's the pebble in the pools that sends the ever widening ripple. But people have to vote for it to make even that small, but necessary change a reality.

As long as Dems and their ardent supporters think pushing candidates like Ford - just to add a d to the senate roster - we can pretty well guage how much real work needs to be done.

Matt you've done a really great job describing the mood here in Connecticut.  It's pure burnout.  What's sad about that is we also have three Congressional races to be excited about.  What should be a good time for Connecticut, has turned into one big frustration.  And let's not kid ourselves.  The Lieberman campaign are the ones who've put Connecticut through this, all because Democrats had the audacity to demand a primary.

Voters are pissed off about the phone calls, mailers and ads.  They're sick of every aspect of this election.  Even those of us who are die hard supporters of candidates can't help but feel the burnout over the tone of this election.

Thanks for the heads-up about PPFA.  I can redirect money I was planning to send to them.

I can't believe that Connecticutt voters are this stupid.  They desrve to be shit on by Joe.