Wonkette

There is nothing Washington editors fear more than the daily e-mails from Liz Richardson, deputy press secretary to the honorable guy from Massachusetts who isn’t Teddy Kennedy. It’s not because of Liz herself — we don’t know her and can’t blame her for taking whatever job comes up in these tough times — but because her name is attached to these endless John Kerry responses to everything that happens. 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]