MIXED BAG: LIEBERMAN AND MCKINNEY BOTH LOSE

LIEBERMAN, OF COURSE, IS AN ORTHODOX JEW AND A STRONG ADVOCATE FOR ISRAEL. MCKINNEY IS A RAGING WACKO WHO CAN'T OPEN HER MOUTH WITHOUT SEETHING ABOUT JEWISH CONSPIRACIES.

Lieberman concedes; Lamont wins primary (MSNBC)
Three-term Sen. Joe Lieberman fell to anti-war challenger Ned Lamont in Connecticut’s Democratic primary Tuesday, a race seen as a harbinger of sentiment over a conflict that has claimed the lives of more than 2,500 U.S. troops.

Unbowed, Lieberman immediately announced he would enter the fall campaign as an independent. Only six years ago, Lieberman was the Democrats’ choice for vice president.

“As I see it, in this campaign we just finished the first half and the Lamont team is ahead. But, in the second half, our team, Team Connecticut, is going to surge forward to victory in November,” Lieberman said after congratulating Lamont.

Lamont, a millionaire with virtually no political experience, ran on his opposition to the Iraq war.
He led with 52 percent of the vote, or 144,005, to 48 percent for Lieberman, with 134,026, with 98 percent of precincts reporting.

McKinney defeated in Georgia runoff (MSNBC)
DECATUR, Ga. - Georgia voters denied Rep. Cynthia McKinney re-election on Tuesday.

With more than 90 percent of the precincts reporting in the Fourth Congressional District Democratic runoff, challenger Hank Johnson, the black former commissioner of DeKalb County, had 59 percent against McKinney. The votes were slow coming in because of computer problems in DeKalb County, but once a bad computer hub was replaced, the votes began streaming in.

McKinney, the fiery Georgia congresswoman who scuffled with a U.S. Capitol Police officer earlier this year, was her state’s first black congresswoman and was in a bid for a seventh term. In the heavily Democratic district, the runoff winner is likely to win in the fall.

McKinney has long been controversial, once suggesting the Bush administration had advance knowledge of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Her comments helped galvanize opposition and she lost her seat in 2002, but won it again two years ago.