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Conventional wisdom is wrong on the Connecticut primary, this was not a case of Democrats getting too liberal for Lieberman. It was Lieberman who got too conservative for the Democrats. Let's face it the President has approval ratings in the low 30s and Joe is known as his favorite Democrat in a very blue state, not a recipe for success. In addition his consistent criticism of his own party is galling. If you're so ashamed of the those in your party who disagree with you and so enamored with GOP policies, why not just become one Joe? Oh, that's right because you cease to be useful as an elephant. Another Republican wailing away on Democrats on Faux news, boring. Besides our cup runneth over with "moderate" New England repubs(Snowe, Chafee, Collins, etc). But a Democrat who will bash his own! Now that's entertainment, and it provides a false sense of bipartisanship, how fun. As for those who think Joe will win the general, because he almost won the primary and now he'll have Republican votes, well that's just naive. In the primary he had 18 years of incumbency, every major Democratic endorsement, major D fundraisers, a Colonel Steve Austin priced advantage in ad money and D special interests doing GOTV work for him on election day and he still LOST by 4 points. In the general the D money, D endorsements, D GOTV resources are all going to be working against him, and people think he's going to do better? Excuse me while I guffaw. He's the political equivalent of a chicken's body running around with it's head cut off, he's dead and doesn't know it yet.