It will be interesting to see how this pans out.
This reminds me a bit of the Joe Lieberman election of 2006. In that race, bloggers who were very very liberal mounted a challenge in the Democratic primary with Ned Lamont against Lieberman. Lamont actually won the Democrat primary thanks to the nutroot support, but Lieberman ran as an independent and won re-election.
Why is this similar? Because in New York, more mainstream or conservative Republicans may be abandoning their party nominee. In Joe Lieberman’s case, mainstream Democrats abandoned the very liberal party nominee to elect the more moderate Democrat. I know Joe is liberal; I’m just saying Joe was not as liberal as Ned Lamont, and it was liberal activists who got Lamont the Democrat Senate nomination.
"Why is this similar? Because in New York, more mainstream or conservative Republicans may be abandoning their party nominee. In Joe Lieberman’s case, mainstream Democrats abandoned the very liberal party nominee to elect the more moderate Democrat. I know Joe is liberal; I’m just saying Joe was not as liberal as Ned Lamont, and it was liberal activists who got Lamont the Democrat Senate nomination."
I look at this for a another lesson. The left wing of the Democratic Party may have lost the general election in that specific race, but they succeeded in capturing the Party. The Democratic Party was put on notice that the left was serious and would not be taken for granted. The result was the Dems moving even further left and eventually giving the left a considerable electoral victory. The Democratic Party takes the concerns of the left a LOT more seriously than the GOP takes the concerns of conservatives. Perhaps the the GOP needs to be sent a message that we are serious and will not be taken for granted.