{"id":1168,"date":"2006-07-29T22:59:59","date_gmt":"2006-07-29T22:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:50","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:50","slug":"speaking_of_org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1168","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of ‘Organic’ Candidates…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Stoller today<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Lamont himself is a lot more focused and smooth than he was when I first met him in February. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the New Haven Register on March 14<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Riding a wave of anti-Iraq War sentiment, Greenwich businessman Ned Lamont formally opened his long-shot challenge for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination against incumbent Joseph I. Lieberman.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So a month before he declared, Lamont was consulting with netroots leadership. <\/p>\n

In my posts on Hank Johnson below (you gave him money, right?), someone asked why I was OK with web support for Johnson challenging McKinney, but opposed to Lamont challenging Lieberman. I replied in comments<\/a> that:<\/p>\n

PD – I actually had a paragraph on that issue exactly when I did the original post on Johnson, but edited it out because I thought it was distracting; it was certainly something I thought about.<\/p>\n

\nThere are in my mind two key differences; First, and foremost that Lamont’s campaign is to a large extent the creature of the netroots (he obvious has support in CT, but he had dialog with them before he declared, and they have been integral to his strategy). Next, and kind of instrumentally, Lamont doesn’t have a significant chance of winning. I don’t much like Lieberman, as I’ve said. I’d love to see a candidate who I like better take his seat. But it’s colossal hubris to attack a sitting candidate who’s almost certain to be in the chair in DC in January, whether with a D- or an I- after his name.<\/p>\n

\nJohnson’s campaign was organic (to the extent that any large campaign can be). I didn’t solicit him to run, and only got involved when he’d already – with a strong local base – forced McKinney into a runoff without any blog attention.<\/p>\n

\nAnd Johnson has a darn good chance of winning.<\/p>\n

\nSo, like it or not, there’s my explanation…<\/p>\n

\nA.L.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just thought I’d point that out…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Stoller today: Lamont himself is a lot more focused and smooth than he was when I first met him in February. From the New Haven Register on March 14: Riding a wave of anti-Iraq War sentiment, Greenwich businessman Ned Lamont formally opened his long-shot challenge for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination against incumbent Joseph […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}