Antiwar challenger wins Connecticut primary

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Antiwar challenger wins Connecticut primary
Last Updated Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:05:31 EDT
CBC News

Ned Lamont has won the chance to take his anti-Iraq war position to voters in Connecticut this fall by beating a long-established politician in the race to represent the Democratic Party in the November senate election.

Lamont finished slightly ahead of Sen. Joe Lieberman in primary voting on Tuesday night. The challenger attacked Lieberman, who won his senate seat three times and was the Democrat's vice-presidential candidate in the 2000 election, for backing the Iraq war.

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1. Revenge of irate moderate voters

The defeat of Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman at the hands of a little-known Connecticut businessman is bound to send a message to politicians of both parties that voters are angry and frustrated over the war in Iraq. The primary upset Tuesday was not, however, a rebellion against the bipartisanship and centrism that Lieberman said he represented in the Senate. Instead, Connecticut Democrats were reacting to the way those concepts have been perverted by the Bush White House.

Ned Lamont, a relative political novice, said he ran against Lieberman because he was offended by the senator's sunny descriptions of what was happening in Iraq and his denunciation of Democrats who criticized the administration's handling of the war.

Lieberman's supporters tried to depict Lamont and his backers as wild-eyed radicals who want to punish the senator for working with Republicans and force the Democratic party into a disastrous turn toward extremism.

When Lieberman told the Washington Post, "I haven't changed. Events around me have changed," he actually put his finger on his political problem. His constituents felt that when the White House led the country into a disastrous international crisis and started subverting the nation's basic traditions, Joe Lieberman should have changed enough to take a lead in fighting back.

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