Learning from Lamont - What Really Happened in CT

A lot of folks have questions as to what happened in the Connecticut Senate race, and there has already been some misinformation out there from armchair never-get-in-the-trenches navel gazers on both the right and left. On the right, there is the Democratic Leadership Council and right-wing radio. On the left, there is the Nation's ideology-free professional self-promoting opportunist Ari Melber - a guy we might call a "Fox News" Democrat in that he looks to write or say anything not to help the progressive cause, but to get himself on Fox News. It's clear both sides have it wrong.

So, on my way back from Connecticut to my home in Montana, I was delayed overnight in Minneapolis, and had some time to author this new article in In These Times that goes over the race from inside the campaign. Bottom line: there were structural challenges that even the most perfectly run campaign could not have overcome. As I say in the article, that is to shirk responsibility - yes, we could have run a perfect campaign and we didn't. But we ran a damn good one. The problem was that the deck was stacked against us in a way not stacked against any other candidate in the entire 2006 election cycle.

Go check out the article here.