Ned Lamont, Connecticut’s Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, crossed the rainy street alone. Struggling to keep an umbrella convex above his head, he froze at the curb to pat down his pockets, looking very much like someone who realizes he’s left something behind.
Life for Mr. Lamont has changed dramatically since the heady Read More
Less than a week from the elections, it’s getting increasingly easy to envision what for the Republicans would be a historically gruesome Election Night scene:
Rick Santorum’s wearing toe tags. Lincoln Chafee’s sleeping with the fishes in Narragansett Bay. Mike DeWine’s just trying to hang on until the priest arrives. All that’s left of George Read More
Less than a week from the elections, it’s getting increasingly easy to envision what for the Republicans would be a historically gruesome Election Night scene:
Rick Santorum’s wearing toe tags. Lincoln Chafee’s sleeping with the fishes in Narragansett Bay. Mike DeWine’s just trying to hang on until the priest arrives. All that’s left of Read More
Today’s Quinnipiac poll =out of Connecticut has Joe Lieberman leading Ned Lamont 49-37% among likely voters, with the Republican candidate Alan Schlesinger at 8%.
In the Oct. 20th Q poll, Lieberman led Lamont 52-35%.
Lieberman leads Lamont among likely Republican voters (73-6), Democratic voters (56-37) and among independent voters (51-36).
Q pollster Douglas Schwartz Read More
Mayor Bloomberg will visit Connecticut Monday to formalize his endorsement of Joe Lieberman and campaign with the Senator at the Stamford train station. Bloomberg, not exactly the greatest retail campaigner in history (“Hi, how are ya” ad infinitum) will most likely have more impact at the Stamford Marriott, where he will help raise money for Read More
George Pataki gets a D from the conservatives at the Cato Institute.
Chuck Schumer raised more money for Senate Democrats than his Republican counterpart.
The New York Magazine blog isn’t impressed with the senate debate in Connecticut.
John Faso plays against form by agreeing with Mike Bloomberg Read More
Former Virginia Governor Mark Warner will not run for president in 2008, a senior advisor to his campaign confirmed this morning.
Warner was considered a potential rival to Hillary Clinton when it came to capturing moderate and centrist Democratic voters. Donors and Democratic strategists were intrigued by the idea that, as a southern governor Read More
Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, Sidney Poitier, Lauren Bacall, Jonathan Demme, Matthew Broderick—none was in attendance last Thursday evening when I visited, “invitation only,” the Dressing Room: A Homegrown Restaurant, the new venture in Westport, Conn., owned by the Newmans and their executive chef, Michel Nischan.
In advance of the Read More
What constitutes dirty money in Connecticut?
Here’s the Ned Lamont campaign’s explanation of the $500,000 contribution that Lamont just made to his own cause:
“I think it says more about Senator Lieberman’s expenditures than it does about his (Lamont’s) campaign,” said Liz Dupont-Diehl, Lamont’s spokeswoman. “Lieberman has outspent us two-to-one on tv Read More
Rep. John Murtha, the military-minded Democrat who is calling for troops to be withdrawn from Iraq, said tonight that Hillary Clinton is “slowly coming around” on the Iraq War issue.
Hillary has come to see the light recently by supporting Ned Lamont in Connecticut and calling for Defense Secretary Donald Read More
