If Lamont exceeded 30%, then the expectation wasn't inflated, was it?

Idiots.

As you may have heard, Joe Lieberman now has a challenger for the Democratic nomination for his old and current Senate seat in Connecticut. Ned Lamont received about 33% of the votes in what I would describe as a moonbat insurrection.
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This was a victory for the Lamont campaign for the reasons Lily noted above --- and it is also likely going to be in a losing cause if the definition of winning is seeing Senator Ned next January. However, one of the main pushes behind the Lamont run is to start installing progressive incentives into the calculations of Democratic politicians in much the same way that the Club for Growth has installed strong anti-tax incentives for Republican politicians. The Club for Growth has power and policy sway within the GOP despite the fact that its primary challengers to GOP incumbents very, very rarely win. However the threat of a serious, credible and well run primary challenge is often enough to make an incumbent to backdown, and even after they survive it, they don't want to face a double campaign every cycle and toe the line better (See Arlen Specter after he beat Toomey.) If Lamont can approximate Toomey's performance and the end result is a weakened Lieberman who is less inclined to play political arbitage against the rest of the Democratic Party for his own personal gain, than that is a net win for progressives.

Yes, of course, the best case scenario for the netroots is Senator Ned next January, but there are wins of various degrees.

If Lieberman had scraped through with 51%, then there might be a story here�

Right... 51% is close enough to be a story, while 52% is a "mandate"

I think this main issue here is that Lamont was a political unknown just 4 months ago and now he has drawn 1/3 of the Democratic delegates in the CT Senate race.

If this were the primary, it would be a crushing defeat for Lamont. But the primary is 4 months away, and going from "unknown" to 33% in just 4 months certainly has the Lieberman worried about what is going to happen in August.

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I'm very interested in why right-wing blogs care so much about taking Lieberman's side in what is a closed Democratic primary.

A political unknown runs against a sitting three term senator, former VP nominee, one of the most well-known pols in America, and gets a third of the vote from the guy's own party faithful, and that is not a remarkable story? Especially given the sense that everyone has about where the momentum in this race is going?

The big news and cause for many progressives continues to be how Ned Lamont has forced Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman into a primary. There are many excellent (and often highly emotional on both sides) takes on this battle.

Here are ......

Yeah, it would be interesting to hear Lamont's views on education and the NEA.