They now say that peace activists sympathetic to Ned Lamont are trying to revoke the senator's registration as a Democrat in his hometown of New Haven. The argument is that he stopped being a Democrat when he started running as an Independent petitioning candidate.

Lamont, obviously, can't be responsible for the actions of all of his supporters. But talk about off-message...

UPDATE: The Lieberman campaign has just released a statement on this (after the jump), while Lamontblog has a rebuttal, aimed primarily at Gerstein.  read more »

Josh Isay may be new to the Lieberman campaign, but not to Lieberman himself.

Hometown loyalties aside, Isay said he is a great admirer of the Senator, and expressed confidence Lieberman will take on and win against Democrats, Republicans and anyone else going into November's showdown with Ned Lamont.

Lamont's campaign has already jumped on the Lieberman's campaign hiring of Isay -- who recently worked on the reelection campaign of Mike Bloomberg -- and a Republican pollster as another opportunity to question the senator's Democratic credentials.

But Isay, who helped reelect Republican Mayor Bloomberg, said he was a true-blue Democrat.

According to the town-by-town returns, Lamont padded his margins over Joe Lieberman in places like Greenwich, where he received 68 percent of the vote, and New Canaan where he got 62 percent.

How does that happen, exactly?

UPDATE: Steve Kornacki has more analysis. From an email:

"Yeah...although Lieberman loses New Haven, his hometown. His best town in the state is East Haven, the lily-white New Haven suburb. And Lieberman owns the Naugatuck Valley...Waterbury, et al. Waterbury was, I think, the only East Coast city (population: 100,000+) to vote for Bush in '04. It's a real throwback town: gritty, but socially conservative and dominated by a GOP machine. Lamont's dominance in Litchfield Co. is interesting too: In theory, those are the kinds of voters who an independent would be counting on in the fall."

UPDATE UPDATE: From Kornacki:

"For what it's worth, I looked up Waterbury's '04 numbers, and Kerry actually eked it out by 161 votes. But the point is still the same."

The Lieberman site is still down. Complaints have been filed on the state and federal level. And now, the FBI is getting involved.

At this point, nobody knows who is to blame. But this guy was causing trouble at Lieberman's polling station this morning in New Haven.

Elizabeth Turner, an 81-year-old retired art professor who voted for Ned Lamont: "I like the idea of a choice and new energy. I have voted in lots of primaries. I've always voted democrat down the line. This time, I got to be selective and I liked it... This time, it was the war issue that eliminated Lieberman. I think that if he loses by a big blast, he will be in big trouble." Marjorie Rosenthal, a 39-year-old pediatrician who voted for Joe Lieberman: "I think he's wrong about the war, but I think there are more issues than just that." She said she liked Lieberman's late attempts to explain his war position over the weekend, but added, "I think it's hard to believe what these people say in the eleventh hour."

A younger Joe Lieberman would never have condemned citizens as unpatriotic who challenge a bloody war that is built on a false premise that is costing thousands of U.S. lives along with our global reputation.