Cross-posted on The Third Avenue

Thanks to CSPAN (the internets were overloaded with Joementum's hackers), I was able to keep abreast of the numbers of the Connecticut Senate Primary as they trickled in.  A close, tough loss for Lieberman, and a hell of a game plan by the Lamont people.  

Lieberman would have won had he not decided to run Indy should he lose, and had he quesnot scaled back on his GOTV.  Also, he totally blew off Bridgeport, where DLC ally Gub. candidate Dan Malloy was mayor, and that too could have been the 4 points he needed. It was a high turnout primary and the message was pretty clear: Democrats are tired of Joe.

I will tell you my impressions of the speeches after the flip...

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(I am the campaign blogger for John Bonifaz, running for secretary of state in Massachusetts)

"DLC got crunched!"

That's how someone here just summed up Connecticut's Democratic primary results.  He wasn't just talking about the Lamont-Lieberman race.

Dan Malloy, four term mayor of Stamford, CT, and John DeStefano, sixth-term mayor of New Haven, were competing for the Democratic nomination for governor.  This afternoon at the polling place, I chatted with a couple of union folk from SEIU/CEUI who were there in support of DeStefano.  They talked about his support for working people, but clearly they were most excited by his advocacy for better health care - indeed, the DeStefano signs and banners sported the slogan "Universal Health Care Now!"

Back at the Lamont event, I asked a friend who knows CT politics about Malloy, who won the state party's endorsement.  He's a good mayor, a very competent administrator, my friend said... but he'd voted for DeStefano.  Malloy's liability was being seen as part of the party establishment, the corportate/DLC wing of the party.  With support from progressives, DeStefano won 51% to Malloy's 49%.

 ... but something quite interesting happened.  Malloy's Lieutenant Governor running mate, Mary Glassman, whomped DeStefano's running mate, mayor Scott Slifka of West Hartford, 57% to 43%.  Repeatedly I heard that "Slifka is a DLCer".  "Yeah, I'm not surprised," remarked one person, "I voted for DeStefano and Glassman." Across the board, grassroots-supported populists beat the establishment candidates for Democratic nominations for statewide office.

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