Mae Culpa on Lamont

As several of you have kindly pointed out, my "largely baseless prediction" from yesterday about the Lieberman-Lamont contest proved to be completely, well, baseless. Yes, the election proved to be closer than the polling indicated. Yes, Lieberman was closing at the end. But no, he did not close the gap or confound the polls and emerge victorious, which puts the Democrats in the very ticklish position of having to deal with what as of right now appears to be an almost inevitable Lieberman third-party candidacy.

As usual on these matters, your historian-cum-pundit of choice ought to be KC Johnson, whose Cliopatria post strikes all the right notes. And as one might expect, he also takes on the defeat of Cynthia Mckinney in her primary race yesterday, indicating the expected demogoguery for which she has become notorious.

For the record, I still think Lamont might be a cipher, though his appearance on The Colbert Report last week made me see him in a more positive light.