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“If we just pick up like Ned Lamont wants us to do, get out by a date certain, it will be taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes in this plot hatched in England,” Mr. Lieberman said at a campaign event at lunchtime in Waterbury, Conn. “It will strengthen them and they will strike again.”

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• British police arrested 21 people in connection with a plot to smuggle liquid explosives onto airliners traveling between London and the US. Americans may no longer bring liquids or gels onto planes. If traveling, expect delays. [NYT, WP, WP]

• Joe Lieberman’s independent run for reelection may or may not help other Democratic races in the state of Connecticut. Meanwhile, Democratic leaders (in a “rare show of unity”) embraced Ned Lamont. [NYT, [WP]
• “David A. Burtt II, director of the Counterintelligence Field Activity, the Defense Department’s newest intelligence agency whose contracts based on congressional earmarks are under investigation by the Pentagon and federal prosecutors, told his staff yesterday that he and his deputy director will resign at the end of the month.” [WP]
• Condoleezza Rice’s attempts at solving the current Israeli/Lebanese conflict are hindered by her need to please different and warring ideological sides of the Bush administration’s foreign policy team. [NYT]
• A membo by Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee could cause the Duke Cunningham corruption case to widen further. [LAT]

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• Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman lost the Democratic primary last night to Ned Lamont. He will run as a “petitioning Democrat,” which is a thing he made up. [NYT, WP]

• Representative Cynthia McKinney lost her primary runoff to Hank Johnson in Georgia, signalling the end of her vaunted “political machine.” [AJC, AJC]
• The White House will call on Congress to alter the War Crimes act to eliminate the threat of prosecution for “political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel for humiliating or degrading war prisoners.” [WP]
• The Fed is done raising interest rates (for now). [NYT]
• Despite being forced to remain on the ballot, Tom DeLay will not seek reelection to Congress. [NYT]

Pictures: Getty Images.

Things sound great for Lamont, but administer salt in liberal doses. (1% of precints reporting: 57.9% to 42.1% for Ned)

Absentee ballots and turnout are both pro-Lamont, exit polling is closely-guarded, but people who know people who know people say it’s the same story.

(Hotline has McKinney down — WHERE WERE THE WONKETTE READERS?)

(rest of this mess now after the jump — relive the magic!)

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Someone launched a Denial of Service Attack against Joe Liebmerman’s website. Did you hear? No? Because it’s THE BIGGEST ELECTION SCANDAL IN THE ELECTORAL HISTORY OF ELECTIONS. MORE »

ONE VOTER AT A TIME, NED! We know this is probably the first time you’ve voted, but read the damn instructions! Your daughter’s gonna be too embarrassed to vote against you if you insist on watching her. MORE »

• Polls in the Connecticut Senate Primary opened 6 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. Senator Joe Lieberman still trails in polls behind challenger Ned Lamont, but the gap had narrowed by election day. [NYT, NYT]

• A poll shows most Americans have an anti-incumbent mood coming into the midterm elections. [WP]
• Corrupt Democratic Congressman William Jefferson will get a primary challenge from Louisiana State Senator Derrik Shepherd. [CQ]
• Texas Republicans have abandoned their fight to keep disgraced Representative Tom DeLay off the November ballot. [AP]
• “[B]y one estimate, state and local governments owe their current and future retirees roughly $375 billion more than they have committed to their pension funds.” [NYT]
• The largest oil field in the US shut down after investigators detected “heavy corrosion and a small leak in a critical pipeline,” sending oil prices up yet again. [NYT]

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So, how was your weekend? Joe Lieberman spent his begging lefties to hate him, so long as they vote for him, and demanding that God smite Ned Lamont. MORE »