Reply #49: Yep, and Lamont probably GAINED Democratic voters and some independents

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from the primary to the general election. It just wasn't enough. He was sucessfully triangulated.

Netroots Dems or Sirota or anyone in the Lamont campaign should not feel like failures for merely overcoming long odds to oust an incumbent in favor of an unknown in a primary and not overcoming nearly IMPOSSIBLE odds of beating him in a three way race where the Republicans did not contest and handed Lieberman their voters.

There was ground gained and progress made from the Dean campaign to the Lamont campaign to the takeover. It was marked by defeats of people like Pombo by netroots fueled candidates like McNerney. We just need to keep pushing. There are more victories to be had. Remember when the netroots was supposedly proven to not matter after Dean lost? Who was it that was grinning from ear to ear as the Chairman of the new congressional majority party on the Daily Show this Wednesday?