Have they taken a position yet?

I gather that Moveon.org was going to do a member poll to determine whom to support. When is that poll expected to take place?

You've got it backwards.  We didn't push Joe out; he walked out on us.  A long time ago.  When Bush and his cadre began to exploit the support they stumbled into through this country's post-9/11 fears by, among other things, initiating a vanity war on false pretenses, dismantling the intelligence vetting process, shaving away our constitutional rights and appointing an army of conservative judges, we needed a prominent Democrat with just the tiniest bit of courage and vision to stand up and question what the Administration was doing.  Lieberman could have been that Democrat.  Instead, he shuffled over to the bath tub started to talk us into drinking the Administration's Kool-Aid.  He's a closet Republican.  What's surprising to me is that, according to your chart, his disapproval rating only recently climbed above 50%.    

Lieberman will lose much of his machine support as an independent; a lot of people will feel released from commitments they made to him on the basis of his being an incumbent Democrat. For instance, New Haven mayor and gubernatorial candidate John de Stefano told Lieberman publicly that he would not support him as an independent: He will support the winner of the democratic primary.

I actually hope that Joementum defects and decides to contest the general as an independent. This will then in broad daylight show the DSCC and the DC Dem establishement for what they really are.

If he runs as an independent we need to be careful. We don't want to lose the seat. If Reid were to kick Lieberman off committee leadership the Republican would offer him leadership in exchange for caususing as a Republican. Besides, for the rest of his term he's still caucusing with the Democrats which makes him deserving of his committee seats (just like Sanders will once he's there).

I have no idea what the DSCC should do. I'd just as soon have them stay out of it as anything else. If they fund Lieberman it would be infuriating. If the fund Lamont it would be surreal and could push Lieberman to caucus with the GOP.

Its obviously huge and exciting that Lamont did so well but Senate leadership needs to tread very lightly if Lieberman bails.

This should not be read as supporting Lieberman, who is an idiot, but if he runs as an independent, and if he wins, then expect Republicans and the beltway based media, to start reporting how the Dems, bloggers, and liberals are "out of touch." If Lieberman runs as an independent he will blast bloggers and liberals on his way out the door and the beltway media will pick up on this theme.

All of this is not to say that Lamont shouldn't be backed or that he shouldn't run. It is to say that the people backing Lamont better start thinking about how they will react if Lieberman takes that road.

The problem is that the media is not prepared for a Democratic Party that acts like an opposition party. What they want is a Democratic party that makes compromises with Republicans. They want this because (a). it fits their theme about the two parties which is that Republicans are tough and Democrats are not, and (b). they realize that if both parties become like the Republicans, then nothing will get done. Hence, the media is always pressuring Dems to compromise and rewarding them when they are like Lieberman.

The response to most of these attacks is to say very clearly that we want power and intend to get power to bring about differnent policies. Hence, we have no interest in helping Republicans make their policies look better by compromising with them. Dems like Lieberman, though, are unwilling to take that stand and the media supports them in their positions.

All of this is not to say "be careful what you wish for", but is to say that it is time to start thinking about what to do is Lieberman jumps the Dems.

PS>I don't think that he will because I think that Reid is smart enough to get that commitment from Joe as part of his supporting Joe.

There had been talk that since Lamont was not going to get enough delegates at the convention, he was going to have to get on the ballot through signatures, and that it was a good thing because the organization necessary and the act of signing would bring more people for Lamont.  So, now that he is already on the ballot, what happens to Lamont's grassroots team?  Where does the energy that was going to go into petitioning go?

Does anyone have a breakdown of Convention votes?  I would like to see how delegates from individual towns voted.  

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