Add the Connecticut for Lieberman party as one of the losers in last week's election: the party's candidate for U.S, Senate, John Mertens, apparently failed to get at least 1 percent of the vote, which would mean the loss of its guaranteed ballot line for the 2012 Senate election.
The party was created in July, 2006, as a backup plan in case Joe Lieberman lost the Democratic nomination to Ned Lamont (which he did, by the way.) But after Lieberman won re-election as an independent, some of his fiercest critics took control of the party that bears his name.
Mertens, a Trinity College professor, ran on the CFL line but, according to unofficial results from the Secretary of the State's office, failed to reach the 1 percent threshold in his loss to Democrat Richard Blumenthal.