Washington Post politics blogger David Weigel provides some important context on today's "news" that Joe Lieberman might endorse Republican Linda McMahon.
Blumenthal and Lieberman have a long and complicated relationship, one that was severely strained by the 2006 Senate race. Blumenthal endorsed Lieberman early that year, but, like most of the rest of the state's Democratic establishment, united behind Ned Lamont when he won the Democratic primary.