- By Monday, the primary defeats of Joe Lieberman and Cynthia McKinney were not surprising.  Both had been behind by a significant margin for over a month.  Thus, it's not accurate to call either victory by their opponents, Ned Lamont and Hank Johnson, respectively, an upset.

- Let's start with Lieberman first.  It was reported a week ago that Lamont was leading by double digits over Lieberman.  By Monday, that lead had been cut in half, and he only won by four percent of the vote.  That's a pretty big shift in a short time, and it doesn't bode well for Lamont in the upcoming general election.

- Lieberman immediately announced his intention to run as an independent in the general election, and has already collected the 15,000 signatures needed in order to be placed on the ballot.

Don't be surprised to hear of the Democrats, along with the Lamont campaign, going to court to attempt to block Lieberman from having his name on the ballot.  That should be expected.  After all, what the Democrats can't get at the ballot box, they'll get from the courts.

Lieberman should have seen this challenge coming during the 04 Democratic primaries.  The far left has been very critical for quite a while and a challenge to his spot was forthcoming.  I would have thought he would have took a stance similar to Zell Miller, and steered clear of the Washington Democrats while still proclaiming himself a member of the party.  However, it seems that the Democrats, led by the nutjobs on the far left, are going to kick him out first.

- As I noted in a post over a week ago, the reason Lieberman lost the primary was not simply because of the war.  After all, there are several Democrats that don't support a pullout, and never have.  Lieberman didn't lose because he supported Israel.  There are plenty of Democrats that do.  However, Lieberman lost because he supported both of these as well as having the nerve to be Jewish.  And because he was Jewish and a staunch supporter of all of these, he became one of the most hated figures within the Democratic Party faithful, and the left's #1 target.

If this was a Republican primary, and say, a long-time black incumbent politician was defeated because he supported affirmative action and/or supported issues that went against the Republican platform but benefited Africa, there would have been countless media stories about the level of anti-black sentiment within the Republican party (and you really don't need that scenario to have those stories published now).  However, don't anticipate the anti-semitic/anti-Israel stories about the Connecticut race being published anytime soon.  After all, Democrats/leftists can't be bigots, at least if you let the media tell it.

- I really don't see the hype in McKinney's loss.  All you're doing is replacing a loud leftist with a quiet one.  At the end of the day, there's still going to be a leftist representing Georgia's 4th District, and the district will be no better off than when McKinney was there.

I was excited when McKinney was defeated by Denise Majette in 2002.  However, Majette decided to hightail it just over a year later to run for U.S. Senate - probably the dumbest political move in recent memory.  At the ballot box, Majette showed that she wasn't much different than McKinney when voting in the Senate, and there's nothing to suggest that Hank Johnson will be either.  Thus, the 4th District loses either way.  Big deal.

- Can McKinney and her staff ever have an election where they actually behave themselves and act like they have some sense?  In 2004, it was her father cutting up, with the infamous "J-E-W-S" comment.  This time, one of her staffer's places his hands on a local NBC cameraperson after an appearance this afternoon.  Then tonight, her goons are at it again, attacking members of the media after a boom mike supposedly hit someone from the McKinney campaign from overhead while she was leaving.  Boy, is she going out in style.