Spin Cycle

Next door, a new Quinnipiac poll shows Connecticut's Sen. Joe Lieberman trailing Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary challenge, 51-47. Lieberman led 55-40 in a poll last month, so that feels like some seriously bad momentum. But Lieberman's campaign announced that none other than Bill Clinton will be coming in to stump for him. Presumably, he'd tell anti-war Democrats who think Iraq is a huge mess that just because a senator voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq, it doesn't mean that he -- or she, as the case may be -- doesn't have the good judgment and sagacity to serve in the Senate. Or even lead the free world, as the case may be.

John Riley