One of the more fascinating things I have noticed about the Connecticut Senate race is how everyone - Left, Right, Center, National Media, Local Media, Washington - everybody - overestimates the importance of this race as to what happens in 2006.
I think the race has important consequences for reformming the Democratic Party, but its effect on other races, the results of this race I mean, not adjustnments made in campaign tactics because of it, is nil. No one, I mean no one in other states is going to vote one way or the other because Joe Lieberman lost last night. This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. More.
Yes the 2006 Election is shaping up into a referendum on Rubberstamping Bush. But it would be that even if Lieberman won.
Charlie Cook is really warming to this theme in his most recent columns, because he is seeing it everywhere.
Now, where I see some real effects is in how the Democratic Party deals with its base, with primaries and how it runs this 2006 election. Those effects should be positive.
But both the handwringers and the revolutionaries need some perspective. The race ain't all that in terms of electoral in 2006.