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My Left Nutmeg isn't the only blog reminiscing about last year's sweet victory on a hot day in August. I myself published a post this morning with a look back over at spazeboy.net. Here's a link to many of Ned Lamont's radio appearances that I didn't include in my post -- consider it a My Left Nutmeg exclusive.
Connecticut Bob took a break from his break to post today:
Even though we didn't win in November, the political status quo was changed forever due in large part to Ned Lamont's heroic campaign.
And we'll always admire you for it, Ned!
Saramerica chimes in over at her Livejournal blog:
Ned Lamont might not have won the Senate race, but his courage in putting the Iraq War front and center was the spark that lit a fire of anti-war sentiment, resulting in the Dems taking back Congress. If only our Senators, who just passed the Survelliance Act, had Ned's cojones. If only Ned were our Senator....
CGG of MyDD, CT Local Politics, and a community member here posted my video re-cap of the primary at CTLP, with sparse commentary from her but interesting reader comments.
Scanman1722 over at DailyKos wrote a thesis on the primary! His diary was posted earlier today, and draws comparisons to the current field of Democratic Presidential candidates:
Just like in Connecticut last year, the Democratic Party is split between two factions. Until Lamont, it seemed as if the faction headed now by Hillary Clinton always seemed to win. One year ago today, we changed that. It is time for us to make the Democratic Party more like us and less like the other guys. We've done it before, now let's do it again.
If you ever needed proof that Hillary was Bush/Cheney/Lieberman Light, all you had to do was watch her in last night's debate.
CTBlogger takes a look back over on ConnecticutBLOG.
In the comments of an earlier post here today, PsiFighter37 offers up a link to his DailyKos liveblog from primary night:
Lamont rocked the house, and there was so much energy in the crowd. We finally won one guys - but there's still much work to do on this race. For you guys, that means I'll be making more trips up to CT to help out.
I'll post a final comprehensive review tomorrow night - I'm extremely tired now, and I have to get started on the 90-minute drive home. Thanks to everyone for being here. I hope I made y'all feel as if you were here for this.
Damn, it feels good to win.
We should all take comfort in knowing that nothing has changed over at Dump Joe, a website that is unfortunately still necessary.
Are there any reminiscing or special memory posts that I missed? Leave links and excerpts in the comments section!
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