Lieberman Loss Signals Bitter Partisan Fight

By Peter Wallsten, Times Staff Writer
6:40 PM PDT, August 9, 2006

CRAWFORD, Texas -- Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut says he can win re-election as an "independent Democrat." But his primary defeat signaled that his label may be a contradiction in terms: Many Democrats are hungry not for independents but for junkyard-dog fighters who will counter the relentless partisanship and aggressive tactics they see from the Republican Party and the Bush administration.