The Political Landscape Just Shifted

[cali]

It may be too early to say this, and I may rue saying it, but I believe Lamont's win really does signify a shift in the political landscape. I don't have the vaguest how big this shift if, but I'll go out on a limb and suggest that it's pretty damned significant, and does indeed have national implications.

What does it say?

It says, chiefly, that people are profoundly dissatisfied with the status quo, and that bodes well for November!

[marmar]

1. Let's let the little chickies get out of their eggs first...

then we can do the dissecting. :think:

[cali]

I know, I know

I'm a little ahead of myself.

[wakeme2008]

2. Also a lot of repugs will be looking at the turn out and the ant-Bush

voters... :)

[Monkeyman]

4. Yep replugs will cut and run

[Bonhomme Richard]

8. I said that to my wife about 2 hours ago the same thing.

If Lamont wins all of them will see the writing on the wall.

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[HuskerDU]

20. Bullshit.

Middle America (I live here) is pissed off at this president and this war. See +50% of the people.

Ned Lamont is the mainstream, not just of the Dem party, but of America.

What part of free Iraqi's burning American flags in Baghdad makes us safer? Their people have spoken. And they hate us. There is only one sane course of action. Ned Lamont knows it. The American people know it.

[Bridget Burke]

21. NO good Dems will quit the party over Lamont.

He's against the Iraq war but is hardly "far left."

[charlie]

22. Forget it

BS went from thinking of "considering giving up on the party" to "going to switch parties in November" in the space of 5 minutes. And somewhere in between managed a huffy show of umbrage over the phrase "dink town" (as in Podunk) as a Chinese slur. He's a visitor from another world, just passing through.

[Bridget Burke]

23. It's fun to play with them for a while....

(I learned everything I know about hunting from my cat.)

[Frank Cannon]

24. Yeah, right. Go play.

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Complete lack of any sense... check.

Hmmmmmm...

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. Yepper.

Within the Democratic Party, especially. With this win, Dean wins a battle(not the war) and the beltway boneheads will lose a great amount of currency.

Even if Lamont loses, that holds. File under "tectonic shifts".

[Bonhomme Richard]

5. I say that whether or not Lamont wins the landscape has changed.

They all know that they can be vulnerable.

[Reckon]

6. It's called taking the Democratic party back....

Edit: Next is the Country!

[democrank]

7. Hope you`re right, cali.

I`ve been waiting for a sign, a smidgeon, a tiny speck, ANYTHING! Maybe this is it.

[NewJeffCT]

9. Did Lieberman concede already?

Please don't jump the gun yet - I'm a CT resident and a natural pessimist.

[cali]

16. Good morning, Jeff

Looks like I didn't jump the gun. Yay. The political landscape looks a lot brighter this morning.

[Selatius]

10. You speak too soon, I fear

No one will know the future. The course of history has abruptly changed many times due to "unforeseen" events. We can only offer guesstimates.

I'm sure some corporatists want another Reichstag fire to accomplish what they want.

[ThomWV]

11. This is just the first whiff of smoke

Of a fire that will rage across this nation. Its time to burn the trash and we're just seeing the fire get lit.

[ruggerson]

12. Dead on cali

this bodes very well for November.

Having said that, we all still have tons of work to do.

[charlie]

13. The media

the punditocracy, and the Beltway insiders may come to regret nationalizing this election. Perceptions that it's a tectonic shift will be due in no small part to their Cassandra wailing.

[cliss]

14. Cali, I agree with you.

There is something very symbolic about this particular race, and everyone seems to have understood that. It's about the old ways, cronyism, corruption, war mongering = Lieberman.

Then there's a new approach, gutsy, principled, doing the right thing = Lamont.

This is the reason why this race has been so publicized. Earlier in the week, there was a thread entitled, "Lamont win = the beginning of the end to the war in Iraq". When I saw that headline, I was just stunned. Had to sit back for a while and just think about it.

THAT's why they've been protecting Lieberman. It's all about the war.

[malaise]

15. It says ignore the viewsof your

constituents at your peril because party headquarters cannot control the blogs and people are seething with anger at the establishment and their special interests.

[Skittles]

17. it tells these elected reps to REPRESENT THE PEOPLE

seems like such a hard lesson for them to learn these days, doesn't it?

[Skidmore]

19. This election will be anti-incumbent.