EARLY RETURNS FAVOR LAMONT.

UPDATE: John Cross is liveblogging the Lieberman and McKinney elections tonight. Early returns have Hank Johnson ahead of Cynthia McKinney. As with Lieberman/Lamont, though, it’s too early to say much based on these returns. However, Howard Mortman notes that some people have already been writing “Joebituaries.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: It’s close, and probably Lamont’s, but some people are still waiting for an earth-shattering kaboom. And there’s more liveblogging, with video, here.

Mickey Kaus is impressed that it’s “closer than expected.” That makes it a “moral victory” for Lieberman, right?

MORE: Some more McKinney/Johnson liveblogging, plus Wizbang coverage of Connecticut here, and McKinney here.

Lieberman has conceded the primary to Lamont.

RealClearPolitics thinks a narrow Lamont win is “just about the worst result possible for the Democratic Party.” Political Wire says that Lieberman will run as an Independent.

If he wins, will he pull a Jeffords? It’s interesting to see what Lieberman said about Jeffords’ switch in 2001.

Armed Liberal is thinking of Jean Hagen. And Brendan Loy is undertaking a party switch himself: “Well, if there’s no room in the Democratic Party for Joe Lieberman, then there’s no room in it for me. . . . It’s official now: the Democrats have jumped off the cliff, and are in free fall toward a richly deserved oblivion.”

Plus, GOP triumphalism at PoliPundit. Justified? We’ll see.