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I’m sorry but these congressional campaign committees should stay away from primary battles. We saw what happened in NY-23 a few weeks ago, but the DSCC apparently didn’t:

Secretary of State Elaine Marshall is leading other candidates in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate by a wide margin.

Marshall is the choice of 42 percent of voters in a poll conducted by Public Policy Polling. Chapel Hill lawyer Kenneth Lewis has 7 percent and unofficial candidate and Lexington lawyer Cal Cunningham has 5 percent. There's plenty of room to grow: 45 percent of poll respondents were undecided, according to the survey of 667 likely Democratic primary voters that was conducted Nov. 23-24.

The poll may prove helpful to Marshall, who is still trying to convince the national Democratic establishment that she is worth the investment of the millions of dollars it would take to defeat Republican Sen. Richard Burr. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee unsuccessfully lobbied U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge of Lillington to run for the seat.

The committee is now lobbying Cunningham, who previously announced he would not run, to reconsider.

Especially Dick Durbin:

According to the Associated Press, Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari, a self-proclaimed life member of the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s “Inner Circle Leadership Committee” has been indicted on charges of financing a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. The AP obtained a resume in which Alishtari states that he became an NRSC Inner Circle Life Member in 2003.

Like an American Express card, membership in the NRSC’s Inner Circle has its privileges, as posted on the NRSC’s own website: http://www.gopsenators.com/memberprograms/innercircle/benefits/

And why isn't the media talking more about these Republican backers supporting terrorism? What happened to that "liberal bias"? I guess when it comes to a Republican being involved then mum is the word.

OH WAIT! That's right - Brittney is in rehab. That is far more important in their eyes </sarcasm>

Christy has a post up that says the DSCC will support whoever wins the primary in Connecticut:

Boltin’ Joe is waking up to some startling news this morning — guess all those call arounds to party elders didn’t go a smoothly as Lieberman tried to spin them yesterday. When you decide to try and game the political party system, you can’t expect the people who hold power in that political party to say , "Good on ya’!", now can you?

CNN is reporting (video clip) that an anonymous Senior Staffer at the DSCC says that the DSCC will likely support the winner of the Connecticut primary.

Raw Story is also confirming this report:

In a serious blow to Sen. Joseph Lieberman's (D-CT) reelection campaign, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is likely to back the winner of the Democratic primary in Connecticut, meaning that Lieberman may be left without national allies for campaign money.

A senior Democratic party official confirmed that the DSCC is unlikely to back Lieberman should he lose the primary to Ned Lamont, a more progressive contender in Connecticut who has garnered support from bloggers and has catalyzed his campaign around Lieberman's aggressive position on Iraq.

“It is likely that the DSCC will back the winner of the Democratic primary in Connecticut,” the party official told RAW STORY, requesting anonymity because of the sensitivity of the race.

Today Chuck Schumer, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee made a statement that would lead us to believe the DSCC, whose mission is to get more Democrats elected to Senate, would support Joe Lieberman if he was defeated in the August primary and forced to run as an Independent.

I added a new Get Active item today to sign a petition by Ned Lamont urging Joe Lieberman to back Lamont should Lamont win in August. Lamont has already made the promise to Joe.

Jane has much more on what can be done. If the DSCC is worried more about protecting incumbents then helping Democrats get elected then they have no respect for a democracy. The people who identify themselves as Democrats elect the next candidate for a seat, not the DSCC. If this is the avenue the DSCC is taking then they can go to hell. I will not donate another single dollar to them until they show they are fully behind Democrats and not their buddies.