I'm lucky. Unlike most of you, I don't have to wait all day breathlessly (and on into the night) to hear news about the primaries - my time zone means that I can go to bed and wake up the next morning with the nicely packaged election results on my home page, or at least I won't have long to wait. Good for me because I'm kind of bad with suspense.

Lamont's candidacy also has become a priority for many liberal websites, such as Daily Kos -- whose founder, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, recently appeared in one of Lamont's television advertisements. With the involvement of these groups, the face-off between Lieberman and Lamont in Connecticut's Aug. 8 primary has emerged as the focal point of tensions between Democratic liberals and centrists over the party's direction.

"This is a fight for the soul of the Democratic Party," said Marshall Wittmann, a senior fellow at the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. "It will have repercussions for the 2008 presidential campaign and whether centrists will feel comfortable within the Democratic Party."

http://www.latimes.com/...

Today the New York Times is reporting that the Senate has approved an amendment to the immigration bill, 63-34, adopting English as our national language.

http://www.nytimes.com/...