Booyah! You beat me to it.

Wish we could have had a primary here in TN. Although a) I don't think the war is a good single issue to run on (how about jobs, health care, destruction of the middle class, etc.), and b) I wish we didn't focus so much national attention on state races and would just let them decide, and let them let those races help build the local party apparatchik.

P.S. MSNBC is talking about Talladega Nights, and CNN was just talking earlier about a Star Wars stage production.

P.P.S. And I already had my headline planned: Joementum fizzles out. I like yours better. Heh. So, will Joe run as an "I" now?

Good ones.

Hey, Fox is covering it! Colmes was at Lamont HQ and actually growing a pair. And spanking Mary Matalin in the process.

Hannity interrupted to say "This marks the night when, officially, the Democratic Party was taken over by extermists."

OK, then.

Larry King just chimed in with "extraordinary developments in Connecticut", then cut to Candy Crowley at Lieberman HQ saying that more returns are in and now it's even, so it's going to be a long night. Not sure what planet they are reporting from.

let those races help build the local party apparatchik.

Actually, despite all the hype, I think that's what happened in the Lamont race to a large extent. Reading around before the CT state convention, I learned that Lieberman was taking the town committees for granted. CT hadn't had a competitive Democratic primary for 50 years, and Joe! was counting on a fat campaign coffer, the spoils of office and threat of reprisal to keep everybody in line as usual. He hadn't visited most areas in years.

Lamont busted his hump visiting every precinct in the state, and pried a third of the delegates away through sheer effort. Lieberman was caught completely off guard, because he had no contact with the locals.    

That's what blew a hole through the center of Lieberman's campaign, not ranting bloggers and bloviating pundits. The local poo-bahs who hadn't already defected did so when it became clear at the convention that Lamont had a shot. Despite having $12 friggin' million in the bank, Joe's campaign was dead in the water. He never recovered.

Even if Joe manages to somehow pull off a miracle, you can bet he'll have a lot of butt-kissing to do out in the sticks. 

Novakula on Fox just now: "Lieberman made a lot of mistakes."

Just sayin'. Connecticut wasn't exactly a likely place for a grassroots insurgency before Lamont started tilting at windmills.

My guess: Joe runs as an independent. He's got way too much money burnin' a hole in his pocket (plus he seems to have a bit of trouble understanding when the cause is lost).  

Hannity just said Joe will win in November running as an Independent. Probably the funniest thing I've heard all night.

Do you 'uns think all the late registrations in the last few days came to help Lamont or bail Joe! ?

FOX INVOKES CLINTON: Blames results on Democrats being upset with Lieberman for coming out on the Senate floor against Clinton's "immoral behavior" in 1998.

I think we'd all better hit the sack. The shrill sirens are going to go off bright and early tomorrow.

Good gracious is it going to get vicious this fall. Whew.  

FOX reports 28,000 new registered voters in the Democratic primary. Now there's some GOTV. They also report possibly significant Republican crossover votes for Lieberman.

I am just about to let myself hope that I'm not gonna be disappointed for once.....

Lieberman is on CSPAN conceding.  Then attacking Lamont.  Then saying how he has to run for the sake of "the state, the country, and his party."

Gag me with a stick.  It's really all about Joe, isn't it?

Somebody get him a copy of Gore's concession speech from 2000.

First three sentences of Lamont's victory speech mentioned the war, jobs and the middle class, and health care. We have a winner.