Letters to the Editor
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Is Lamont the Democratic nominee only because a GOP strategy backfired?
When the Republicans perceived that the whole "left-wing extremist challenges reasonable Democrat in primary" spin would help them they pushed their message into the media and the primary received a great deal of coverage. Now that more coverage of the Lamont vs Lieberman isn't seen as an advantage the Republican media machine isn't pushing it and news of the race fades.
It's pretty sad, but if the Republicans never pushed any story about the primary it wouldn't have been a big deal and Lieberman probably would have won. It seems to me that it's likely that Lamont is the Democratic nominee because the original GOP strategy backfired.
No one's pushing for coverage of Lamont vs Lieberman race any more but Mr. Lamont really needs to be seen now. Hopefully he'll be able to make an effective media buy in the coming month to overtake Joe Lieberman in the polls. If you don't own the media you have to pay big money to be heard. That's the state of "free speach" in the political world today.