Newspapers and bloggers have been tying up the loose ends from last Thursday’s debate.

Joe Lieberman used his one question to ask Ned Lamont why he hasn’t released his tax records. It was one of his most potent attacks, and Lamont didn’t come up with a convincing response. Now Lamont has agreed to release the information. Fairfield University professor John Orman told the Stamford Advocate that the actual contents won’t matter as much as the sense that Lamont was hiding something did.

The Hartford Courant followed up on Lieberman’s less convincing argument that Lamont was a Greenwich Republican (or acted like one) back in the 80s. The conclusion: it’s not true, at least according to actual Greenwich Republicans. “He was more like a liberal Democrat," says Republican John B. Margenot, who was first selectman when Lamont was on the board. "Ned was a Democrat. I never even recall him acting like a Republican. He's not a Republican," another board Republican concurs.

The Courant article also looked at the debate over federal earmarks and explains that while Lamont is right that Connecticut ranks second to last in federal funds, its standing is based more on set formulas (Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security) than the work of individual senators. The state ranks so low because it is “unusually wealthy.”

Bill Scher of LiberalOasis takes a close look at the Lamont bumper sticker used in Lieberman’s newest ad, played during the debate. The sticker says “No More Joe”—showing, according to Lieberman, that the Lamont campaign is entirely negative. “But what else does Lamont really have to say?" the ad asks. The problem? Lamont didn’t really say that at all. The Lieberman campaign made the sticker to look like the ones Lamont uses. There was even a fake URL at the bottom of the sticker: www.nomorejoe.com. Scher found that the domain (currently unused) is owned by a Republican consulting firm in Arizona, and a conversation on an Arizona Sports Fan Network bulletin board suggests the website was used in a primary campaign against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in 2004.

Over the weekend, both the New York Times’ David Brooks (subscription only, but quoted extensively here) and the LA Times’ Jonathan Chait wrote columns about the race. Both call the primary a “civil war” (for Brooks, it is nothing less than the Spanish Civil War). Connecticut Local Politics’ Chris Bigelow wishes the national media would let Connecticut choose its representation in peace. “We don't care about a liberal inquisition, or party purges, or an impending Democratic civil war. We don't care about Markos Moutsalis, David Brooks, Joe Biden or Maxine Waters,” he writes. But Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) cares about him (or at least his vote): she’s stumping for Lamont.