Lamont defeats Lieberman

Ned Lamont won the Connecticut Primary for US Senate, defeating Bush's favorite Democrat, Joe Lieberman. Even though he lost, Lieberman's concession speech clearly showed that he is going to run as an independent. Lieberman said he called Lamont and congratulated him on his success. Not his victory, but his success. Then Lieberman referred to the primary as the first half and the second half was coming up this November.

Then later in the night, Chris Matthews had a special edition of Hardball. On the show he interviewed the Republican candidate, Alan Schlesinger, in the race. Schlesinger flat out said that now Lieberman is running as an independent he has a shot. If he was running against just Lamont, it would be very hard for him to win.

The race garnered so much attention that popular blogs Daily Kos, MyDD, Demoractic Underground, and FireDogLake all crashed on Tuesday night.

The local Connecticut blogs really had some great coverage of primary that I am sure will continue through November. Check them out...
CT Bob - has some great videos on YouTube and did his own exit polls of the Primary
LamontBlog
MyLeftNutMeg -has 2 posts about the losses the DLC suffered in the Primary
Connecticut Blog

And finally, visit Ned Lamont's campaign site and blog.

**Update**
Hillary Clinton is the first Democratic Leader to donate to Lamont's campaign. According to Crooks and Liars, her PAC wrote a check for $5,000 to Lamont.

According to the Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post, Evan Bayh has endorsed Lamont after supporting Lieberman in the Primary.

And according to blogger CT Bob, Ted Kennedy gave Lamont a phone call congratulating him right after his victory speech.

John Kerry chimes in here.

Political Forecast has a statement form Sen. Russ Feingold about the Lamont victory.

And the DSCC supports Lamont.