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U.S. Senate Candidate, Connecticut
Location Greenwich, CT
Age 52
College A.B. 1976

If it weren’t for his multimillion-dollar fortune, he’d be the perfect rags-to-riches story. In the race that launched a thousand blog posts, Lamont went from unknown vanity candidate to serious threat and household name, defeating three-term incumbent Joe Lieberman in August’s Democratic primary. The victory forced Lieberman into an awkward independent bid and forced his party to backpedal on its recent rightward backpedaling. The great-grandson of the J.P. Morgan partner who gave Harvard’s Lamont Library its name made his own money by founding a company that wires college campuses for cable TV. Served two years as a Greenwich selectman in the late ’80s and six years on the local tax board. Entered the campaign to protest Lieberman’s support for the Iraq war. His primary victory has convinced the liberal blogosphere of its might and the Democratic establishment of its vulnerability.

However… Lamont trails Lieberman in the polls.

Google hits 4.69 million for “Ned Lamont”; 7.05 million for “Joe Lieberman”