What a gruesome statistic:

The Baghdad morgue took in 1,815 bodies during July, news services quoted the facility's assistant manager, Abdul Razzaq al-Obeidi, as saying. The previous month's tally was 1,595. Obeidi estimated that as many as 90 percent of the total died violent deaths.

The AP reported this afternoon that Joe Lieberman fired his top staffers and asked the rest to resign:

Lieberman said that he fired his campaign manager and spokesman, and asked for the resignations of his campaign staff.

"We did not answer, adequately answer, the distortions of my record on Iraq and my relationship with George Bush, that the Lamont campaign put out," said Lieberman, though he said he did not blame campaign workers.

Is Karl Rove going to suggest replacements? Maybe not, as Lieberman's campaign is now denying today's earlier report that Rove called to offer help.

Dan Gerstein called from the Lieberman campaign to say the above account from another Lieberman adviser is not accurate. While confirming that Rove called Lieberman, he added: "Rove made a personal call, no help was offered, and we are not interested regardless." A senior White House official also says that the account is "not accurate."

Update: The Carpetbagger Report says not all the departures were at the behest of Lieberman. Some of the staff decided to leave weeks ago if Lieberman lost to Lamont and left the Democratic party.

While most major Democrats today came out in support of Ned Lamont now that he has won the Connecticut primary, one Senator who has promised to support Joe Lieberman in the past is staying silent...Ken Salazar. According to the Denver Post:

Salazar said in July he'd back Lieberman as an independent candidate if he lost the Democratic primary to challenger Ted Lamont. Lamont did win, but Salazar by late this afternoon had not reaffirmed that support, instead issuing a statement saying that he was disappointed by the primary outcome....Salazar's spokesman, Drew Nannis, said Salazar needed to talk to Lieberman before saying what he'd do.

The Grand Junction Sentinel, however, reports that Salazar told the paper he plans to stick with supporting Lieberman.

Salazar did, however, express his thoughts as to why Lieberman lost:

A new CNN poll finds that 60% of Americans now oppose the Iraq war. A majority of those polled would support troop withdrawal by the end of the year.

This is the largest percentage since polling on the issue began in March, 2003.

Predictably, the mainstream media is focusing on the effect of the netroots. From Time Magazine:

Now that it has played a major role in helping to defeat Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut Senate primary Tuesday, the Netroots' moment has finally arrived.....in Tuesday's Democratic primary, the bloggers didn't just get a win, but a victory no one could have expected even four months ago.

What the magazine is missing:

The netroots is much larger than bloggers. It includes grass roots activists, organizations like MoveOn and more. The reporter kind of gets it a few paragraphs down:

For Ned Lamont and the voters of Connecticut tonight, here's a very spirited and happy "Give Them What They Want" performed by Michael Stipe of REM and Natalie Merchant of 10,000 Maniacs (who looks goregeous) at the 1993 MTV Inaugural Ball for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Turn the volume way up on your speakers so you get the full effect.

Last night it took me six hours to go from VHS to You Tube, tonight it only took me an hour. (There's a lot of steps, from processing to dubbing to finalizing and then to converting, editing and uploading.) I haven't figured out how to enhance the sound, so you will have to turn the volume way up on your computers, but it's a great song, it's worth it.

Lieberman is on tv now giving his concession speech. He's mad. He's going to run as an independent.

Reversing the thread, newer results on top:

All that's left is Joe's concession speech. Congratulations, Ned Lamont.

11:02 pm. It's over. Lamont has a 10,000 vote lead with only 35 precincts out. It's too late Joe. As to why the MSM isn't reporting it, I was just told by someone who knows these things, "The MSM has been very timid about calling races since 2000, but it's tradition to wait for the loser to concede ... We may have a sore loser on our hands."

713 of 748 Precincts Reporting - 95.32%
Lamont, Ned Dem 138,836 51.92
Lieberman, Joe Dem 128,566 48.08

10:56 pm : No way can Lieberman win now, why won't the media say so? I'm ready for the Lieberman concession speech. Greta breaks her promise, she went the whole hour without declaring a winner in the race. Lieberman needs 79% of the remaining precincts to win, just about impossible.

706 of 748 Precincts Reporting - 94.39%
Lamont, Ned Dem 136,353 51.73
Lieberman, Joe Dem 127,249 48.27

Update 4:15 pm MT: Huffpo says the results will come at 8:35 pm ET. Daily Kos and Firedoglake have the real scoop on Lieberman's site going down. He paid for a cheap hosting service and it overloaded. Lamont offered him tech advisors to help. But Joe went with another cheap host, so don't be surprised if it happens again.

I'm out at the jail and won't be back until just about 6:30 (8:30 ET) when I'll begin live blogging the results, updating with news as it comes out and what other blogs are saying. So check back in if you can.

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It's going to be a long day. Firedoglake and their commenters are reporting live.

This thread is for all topics related to Lieberman and Lamont, but I'll start with addressing the fallacy that the media is spinning that if Lamont wins, it's due to bloggers.

Chris Bowers at MyDD, still live-blogging from Lamont headquarters at 2:30 a.m. last night, says whether Lamont wins or loses, Wednesday will be a bad press day for bloggers and the netroots:

by TChris

Among the (sometimes former) police officers recently arrested or sentenced for possessing child pornography (or worse):

• Kenneth Haga from Huntsville and Ken Stanley from Florence, Alabama. A third Alabama officer, Former Somerville Police Chief Chris Landers, is charged with sexually abusing a child.

• Lee William Giles Jr., also charged with various counts relating to the sexual abuse of children.

• Justin Broussard from New Braunfels, Texas.

It's primary day. In Connecticut, in Colorado and elsewhere. If you're registered to vote, you have the power. Please use it.

We've had high hopes before. Let's hope democracy prevails today. Here's a video I found on a VHS tape stashed in my closet, of the 1993 MTV Inaugural Ball for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. This segment is Don Henley performing Leonard Cohen's "Democracy." Not being a video maestro, it took me almost 6 hours tonight to convert the tape to a format my computer would recognize and then that You Tube would accept. You will likely have to turn your volume up, it's best played loud. I hope you like it. If you do, give it a rating.

Good luck, Ned Lamont. If the voters of Connecticut turn out in force, you should be the state's next Democratic nominee for the United States Senate. And that's quite a feat.

Via Brains Over Bombs, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has made Vanity Fair's Best Dressed List.

She was cited for being "immaculately groomed and formidably dignified but with an audacious renegade streak".

But, Condi's accolades may be wearing thin.

by TChris

Note: Jeralyn also posts about this here.

If we can launch a preemptive strike against a country that has no weapons of mass destruction simply because (thanks to the administration's propaganda) we feel threatened, why shouldn't we be able to preemptively kill neighbors who seem like they might be threatening? A growing number of states are enacting self-defense laws that eliminate an already eroding common law principle that the use of deadly force in self-defense is permitted only after attempts to retreat from the dangerous situation have failed.

Supporters call them "stand your ground" laws. Opponents call them "shoot first" laws.

Many states have copied a Florida law that permits the use of deadly force, with no duty to retreat, by a person who reasonably believes the force is necessary to prevent great bodily harm or "the commission of a forcible felony." A fear of imminent harm is presumptively reasonable if deadly force is used against a person who forcefully enters the defending person's residence or car. Persons who use deadly force under those circumstances are immune from arrest and prosecution (and from civil liability).