The Democratic voters of Connecticut have had their say, and now it is the news media's turn to weigh in on Joe Lieberman's defeat. Time sees the "ascendancy of a legitimate new power centre in the Democratic party" with the first major victory for a netroots-supported candidate, in this case, the anti-war millionaire businessman, Ned Lamont, against an Iraq war and George Bush supporting incumbent.
Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas has attempted to downplay the claims made for the impact of his support for Mr Lamont, but his site today has a list of winners and losers from the senate primary that vindicates his approach to political campaigning. The winners are "people-powered politics" and the "Democratic party". His losers include Connecticut newspapers who endorsed Mr Lieberman ("Memo from the people of Connecticut - they didn't care") and the centrist Democratic Leadership Council ("this was the triumph of a rag-tag band of rebels against everything the DC Democratic establishment could throw at us").
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