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Lamont Loses at Yale

On Wendesday night, defeated ex-candidate for the US Senate in Connecticut Ned Lamont came to the Yale Political Union to give an opening speech in favor of the resolution that “Congress should force the President to withdraw from Iraq.”

The remarkable thing about the debate was that Lamont lost: after his speech and the five student speeches that followed, the YPU voted 26 to 44 with nine abstentions against the resolution: a defeat so resounding that even I was surprised.

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