So, despite the fact that Tuesday's Connecticut primary can boast one of the largest primary senatorial election turnouts EVER, the GOP has decided to spin it
this way:
Sen. Joseph Lieberman's narrow defeat in Connecticut's Democratic primary on Tuesday tells us something important about his party. Mr. Lieberman, who has made it clear that he is running in November as an independent, can argue plausibly that his loss represented the judgment of only a sliver of the electorate: Connecticut, where most major party nominations are decided by party conventions, has a tradition of low participation in primaries, and less than one-sixth of the registered voters took the trouble to cast their ballots in this contest. The winner, Ned Lamont, thus got the votes of less than one-tenth of Connecticut voters.
...my thoughts on the flip...
I'm starting to get the feeling that the GOP's number one strategy in the upcoming years is going to be the Howard Dean Is A Freaky Nutcase strategy. Wherein the airwaves are filled with phrases like "fringe candidate", "extreme left", and so on, with absolutely no factual basis.
The problem isn't that people will look at the candidates and beleive the GOP spin. The problem is that when Democratic strategists hear right-wingers calling our candidates "fringe" and "extreme", they push those candidates to run away from their core progressive values. They shift the "middle" further still to the right.