575 of 748 Precincts Reporting - 76.87%
Name Party Votes Pct
Lamont, Ned Dem 109,239 51.76
Lieberman, Joe (i) Dem 101,818 48.24
So, it looks as if Ned is on his way to the nomination, albeit by a very slim margin. And all I read on this site is nonsense about people trying to bring down this site or others. Politics too often resembles high school. Today is really one of those days.
This should be about policies, but the groupthink mentality here has made it all too personal. Politics is serious business -- it is most definitely not a game. And it definitely isn't student government. Yet I have the feeling today that one of the leaders of the Dmeocratic Party was brought down by people who got bored with Dungeons and Dragons. You can't play at politics.
I've worked on enough campaigns to see that on the inside, and it was a big turn-off there, too. You have to care about issues. You have to understand that they are complicated. You don't get to go to the next level if you zap enough goblins with your magic flame-bombs.
If you genuinely believe that Joe Lieberman's ideas on policy are bad for this country, then you can celebrate his defeat. It should require honesty. There was a clip on the news of this nerdy-looking guy playing around with his laptop, while he was being interviewed -- and he declared that Lieberman "isn't a centrist, he's a right-wing nut." Joe Lieberman certainly isn't that. Time will tell if Ned Lamont can ever approach the footprint that Lieberman had in the Senate.