(Please welcome Tim Tagaris, veteran of the Ned Lamont, Paul Hackett and Sherrod Brown campaigns who is joining us today in the comments.  He is currently in Louisiana covering the Karen Carter race for MyDD and lighting up Bourbon Street — JH)    Before we start, I am so thankful Jane offered me this opportunity [...]

Howie Klein is going to be in Paraguay for a month which gives me the opportunity to run with scissors in the Blue America palace he has so carefully constructed.  This Saturday at 11:00 am we'll be having our very good friend, blogospheric hero Tim Tagaris in for a chat.  Tim is a veteran of [...]

Mark Liebovitch, writing on the Bullshit Moose's new job as Joe Lieberman's spokesman, is an excellent indication (contra Nick Confessore) that one doesn't have to have one's head inserted in the dark recesses of one's own anatomy to write for the NYT: Mr. Lieberman, a longtime Democrat of Connecticut who was re-elected as an independent [...]

Tim Tagaris has filled in a bit of the back story on the Connecticut Senate race and the Lamont campaign in a DKos diary.  For those of you who have been asking questions and second-guessing campaign strategies and trying to figure out who did or did not do work for or against Lamont or Lieberman, [...]

  Lest there be any confusion about where Chuck Schumer stands with regard to you in the grassroots, gentle reader, we have this from Ruppert Murdoch's New York Post to go along with Chuck throwing Howard Dean under the bus on Worst Person in the World Bill O'Reilly's show on Murdoch's Fox News.  If there [...]

David "Bobo" Brooks once incoherently ranted that bloggers and grassroots activists were "rabid lambs."  Rahm Emanuel Delay and his minions are blanketing the establishment media to argue yesterday's election results were a victory for conservative "blue dog" Dems, and emphatically not representative of any growing progressive movement.  There's been some good rapid analysis and reporting [...]

Just wanted to take a moment this morning and say thank you to Ned Lamont, Tom Swan and the entire team that worked on Ned's behalf throughout the campaign.  You energized us, you thrilled us, you inspired us.  And most of all, you changed the national conversation at a time when the nation sorely needed [...]

  CNN and CBS call it for Joe Lieberman. As Kos says, both the White House and warmongers everywhere rejoice. But the wave of Democratic victory that is happening across the country would not be happening if the Lamont campaign did not step forward and change the narrative for Democrats.  Despite the fact that Harry [...]

I've been hearing rumors of expected 65% turnout in CT, but it turns out that may be low.  From the Danbury Times: Some 70 percent of the registered voters will go to the polls today, according to Connecticut Secretary Susan Bysiewicz. By comparison, 56 percent of the state’s voters cast ballots four years ago, Bysiewicz [...]

Voter turnout is extraordinarily high in Connecticut — Chris Jansing on MSNBC says they are expecting 65%.  Joe has a truly abominable place on the ballot, much worse than anyone expected (as one Lamont staffer put it, "it blows").  Via Billmon we find a nice article in the NYT on the implications of this.  RevDeb [...]