Reply #9: In CT the Party Machine is powerful [View All]

And so is (was) Lieberman. You're uncle has a state job and you're a delegate to the convention? A vote for Lamont could cost him his job. That's still the way it works here. A number of delegates reportedly stayed away so as not to feel obligated to vote for Joe. In the primary I suspect Joe got some votes out of fear of a three way race costing House pick ups (and I think that is the real issue with the Joe Party).

Regardless, a 1% victory would still have been amazing. In December no one had heard of Ned, and as he put it, when he started he was an asterisk. Six months later he made every politician in America take notice. The people are paying attention and they are pissed.

52-48? It was heard around the world and is significant.

edit: sp