What’s Next? Lamont Wins; Lieberman Loses

Filed at 8:30 am, Wednesday August 09th 2006
by Arlen Parsa

Absolutely disgraceful. Joe Lieberman in his concession speech last night repeated the claim that his website had been hacked (in fact he just has a really cheap webhost that ran out of bandwidth). He had the nerve, the absolute nerve to ask for campaign contributions for his run as an independent– in his concession speech […]

Lamont v Lieberman RESULTS THREAD

Filed at 8:29 pm, Tuesday August 08th 2006
by Arlen Parsa

Results will be posted here, feel free to be liberal with your refreshings if you’re following along with me.
NEWEST UPDATES ARE AT BOTTOM
Update 1: Lamont rumored to win absentee vote by slim to large margins in some precincts.
Update 2: The online results page is being hammered right now by traffic from all over the […]

And the polls are…. closed!

Filed at 7:56 pm, Tuesday August 08th 2006
by Arlen Parsa

Polls closed in CT minutes ago at 8pm Eastern. Expect the first results to trickle in in about a half hour. I’ll be liveblogging them of course. They’re supposedly using a new web system to display results so if things go wrong it could be a little delayed. But as of now, here’s what […]

Don’t believe the fake Lieberman hacking story

Filed at 6:33 pm, Tuesday August 08th 2006
by Arlen Parsa

You might have heard a stupid story that the Lieberman campaign is pimping around to every media outlet they can find. It goes something along the lines of “Oh my god those horrible Lamont bloggers have attacked our website and caused it to stop working!”
The story is, of course, absolute bullshit. And bloggers have exposed […]

CT Primary- Why it matters

Filed at 4:30 pm, Tuesday August 08th 2006
by Arlen Parsa

If you can, help.
If you can’t help, then hope.
Hope that for once the candidate who stands for peace will prevail over the candidate who stands for continued war. Hope that the candidate who holds the promise of change will triumph over the candidate that stands for more of the same weak Democratic opposition to this […]

Lamont’s Morning; Lieberman’s Morning

Filed at 2:30 pm, Tuesday August 08th 2006
by Arlen Parsa

Lieberman got up and voted at 10am, Lamont voted at 7am. Hopefully Lamont will also be ahead of him in the polls. Harharhar.
Also see: Early problems at voting places.
And: Five questions from the Washington Post Fix blog.

2 Videos- Al Sharpton on Ned Lamont

Filed at 12:30 pm, Tuesday August 08th 2006
by Arlen Parsa

Celebrated civil rights activist and leader Al Sharpton has been lending his support to Ned Lamont in the Connecticut primary. Below are two videos, the first was shot by a blogger at a Lamont event, the second from conservative host Tucker Carlson’s show on MSNBC.

CT Primary Morning Briefing

Filed at 8:30 am, Tuesday August 08th 2006
by Arlen Parsa

Unless something truly huge happens (i.e. either the Sunnis and the Shias start hugging and agree to peace or Bush announes he’s gay and has a crush on Senator Santorum), all posts today will be devoted to the subject of the Connecticut Democratic Primary today, in which Joe Lieberman is pitted against Ned Lamont for […]

Special Briefing: Connecticut Primary

Filed at 12:30 pm, Monday August 07th 2006
by Arlen Parsa

Okay, so here we are, closing in on the final 48 hours until the Democratic primary in Connecticut. Who would have thought that one of the most nationally watched races this entire year has been a primary? Here’s what’s going on:
Lieberman, Supporters Resort to Desperate Tactics
Lieberman supporters are resorting to stealing Lamont lawn signs. This […]

Photo of the day

Filed at 10:11 pm, Friday August 04th 2006
by Arlen Parsa

This has pretty much got to be the photo of the day.

The latest news from the Lamont vs Lieberman race

Filed at 12:30 pm, Friday August 04th 2006
by Arlen Parsa

With the big day on Tuesday, expect a lot of Lamont vs Liberman news in the next several days.
Oh man, so get this: a group of paid Lieberman staffers show up at a Lamont gathering and intimidate Lamont’s supporters, shout and scream at Ned himself, acost a 90 year old WWII veteran who supports Ned– […]

Video- Ned Lamont on The Colbert Report

Filed at 12:30 pm, Tuesday August 01st 2006
by Arlen Parsa

Ned Lamont appeared on The Colbert Report last night, and did an excellent job. Although he seemed to start out a little nervous, he quickly became comfortable and started really shining. The audience loved him, and interrupted the conversation with applause several times.
The only issue on which I find myself at odds with Lamont about […]

Video- Colbert on Lieberman vs Lamont

Filed at 12:30 pm, Saturday July 15th 2006
by Arlen Parsa

Colbert recently did a piece on Joe Lieberman and Ned Lamont. Funny stuff.

Joementum’s chances in November

Filed at 9:30 am, Monday June 26th 2006
by Arlen Parsa

Political Wire asked commentator-consultant Dick Morris what Lieberman’s chances for the 2006 midterm elections are. And what he said was pretty interesting.

Feingold will support Lamont if he wins the CT-primary

Filed at 3:51 pm, Sunday June 25th 2006
by Arlen Parsa

Earlier today on Meet the Press, NBC’s Tim Russert asked Senator Russ Feingold if he support Lieberman or Lamont in the Connecticut primary this August. Feingold said he wouldn’t support anybody in the primary, but would support whichever one was the Democratic canidate. He noted that Lamont’s positions on the issues were a lot closer […]



Asides


 # Eugene Robinson eviscerates McCain on the economy

 # McCain & Palin are lying about their crowd sizes


 # Vote caging by the McCain campaign?

 # More of the same lies: Palin links Iraq with 9/11