One doesn't hear too much about Ned Lamont these days. Only a scant five weeks after his squeaker primary victory over Joe Lieberman, Lamont has been trailing between 10-20 points.

Lamont has tipped in 6.3 million of his own considerable cash stash (estimated fortune of 90-300 million) into his campaign, ostensibly because he has refused to take money from PACs and lobbyists. The word is no one is offering any money, so this is likely just cover for a loss of credibility among the Democrat elite. Meanwhile, Lieberman is raking in cash from both Democrats AND Republicans.

Lieberman on Tuesday collected about $400,000 at a fundraiser in Washington, D.C., according to campaign sources.

Sun said today that the event was organized by the Lieberman campaign itself and had no prominent sponsors.

That was not the case last week in Florida, where shopping center developer Mel Sembler, a former finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, organized a Lieberman fundraiser that a top aide to the senator said went like "gangbusters."

Lamont also seems to have fallen from grace among the netroots crowd

Ned Lamont was the blogosphere's first primary victory, but now he's probably going to lose the general election. I seldom see his name on the blogs any more. I see negative things about Lieberman, but never anything positive about Lamont. Why is that?.

...because everyone, including the netroots, knows that Lamont is toast--success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.