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Meanwhile, Democratic voters face a choice between two little-known candidates who differ little on the issues. Both want to invest more money in schools and attract more teachers with better pay. Both talk up their leadership fighting intervention in the Terri Schiavo case, and both say they have a knack for reaching across party lines to get things done.

Electoral math hurts Smith's primary chance

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The shadow follows Lieberman...

"I don't think we want Washington, D.C. to be a club for career politicians," Lamont said during a recent interview with editors at Hometown Publications.

Lamont, 52, said three key issues inspired him to challenge Lieberman in the Aug. 8 Democratic primary: the Terri Schiavo case, Alaska's "Bridge to Nowhere," and the government's failure to change its stance on the war in Iraq.

Democrat Edward M. "Ned" Lamont may have been a relatively unknown, small-town politician a year ago. But many in the state now know him as David taking on Goliath.

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