I tend to pay close attention to the national political scene and would spare the readers here my take, but since the Connecticut Dem primary race is very Netroots centric, I’m going to broach the subject here.
There is a lot of hyper analysis over Senator Chuck Schumer’s statement that the DSCC would support an independent bid by Senator Lieberman. Markos was pissed and he generally reflects the sentiment of much of the progressive blogosphere, but the hand wringing continues with Jim Dean entering the fray recently.
With so many keys being stroked (instead of ink being spilt) over this, I have to wonder if people are missing an obvious factor.
Joe Lieberman is a Jewish Senator from Connecticut. I would think he has some big donors in either NY or Connecticut that are close to him and have expressed to Chuck Schumer their dissastisfaction with this whole Lamont thing.
After all, he did almost become vice-president and then ran for president. I think Schumer is just humoring some people so he can get back to trying to win a Dem majority in the Senate.
ArchPundit
Arch, are you saying Lieberman isn’t going to run as an independent? Or at least Schumer thinks he’s not going to run as an independent?
Or that it’s no big deal if the DSCC supports Lieberman (independent) over Lamont (Democrat) in the general election?
First Carl, just want to be clear that Arch didn’t post that. I’m guest blogging for the week.
What I’m trying to get at is that Schumer may feel pressure to make a public statement in support of Lieberman because of donors. I personally don’t think he cares if Lieberman loses.
Like the Hotline blog post said, the DSCC isn’t going to spend one cent on a race where Lamont is the D nominee and Lieberman is the I since both would vote for Reid. The only time the DSCC will spend money is if the winner wouldn’t vote for Reid as leader.
Sorry my post wasn’t clear, I’ll be more careful next time.
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