Kris Schultz

Chris Bowers of mydd.com makes some great points about Senate primaries this year that are worthy of a gander. He says it's fascinating how much ink is given to the Lieberman/Lamont Senate Primary in Connecticut compared to two other races - the RI and HI primaries. He says editorial boards are critical of progressives who are shepherding Lamont forward in a great primary run.

If they, or any other organ of the political and media establishment think that primary challenges against incumbent Senators are wrong, then why aren't they editorializing about Hawaii and Rhode Island? All of the complaints that have been leveled against progressives for trying to unseat Lieberman can easily be turned against the DLC for trying to unseat Akaka, or against the conservative movement for trying unseat Chafee.

I'd say the same to the blog world. Overwhelming numbers of bloggers have donated to Lamont via websites like the ActBlue site, and pushed the race forward via thousands of posts. I hope even just a portion of them will also take Senator Akaka on, and support him. Otherwise, all this help for Lamont might mean he gets elected, while Ed Case is sent in from Hawai'i and cancels all his votes. What would be the point of that? I hope they share the love.

UPDATE - 7/9/06
Make sure you check out other follow-up posts to Chris Bowers' post on the media coverage of Lamont/Lieberman compared to Akaka/Case, like this from Lizzy, this from Matt Browner-Hamlin, and this from Digby.

And, for fun, check out Craig Crawford's Sunday Concert.