October 4, 2010

Saying federal regulations have created a “stone wall” preventing Connecticut residents from enrolling in a new state health insurance plan, Gov. M. Jodi Rell has asked U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to consider relaxing the rule. The state created the Connecticut Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan to comply with a requirement in the […]

Expect to see Democrat Richard Blumenthal and Republican Linda McMahon closely stick to scripted talking points tonight in the first of only two live televised debates in their U.S. Senate race. Neither candidate has shown much flair for impromptu remarks; each has suffered the indignity of having press aides noisily and abruptly end press conferences […]

With new video of previously reported remarks, Republican Linda McMahon’s campaign today breathed new life into the story of Democrat Richard Blumenthal’s misstatements about his Vietnam-era military service. McMahon’s campaign released a television commercial that for the first time will give wide exposure to two video clips of Blumenthal falsely referring to service in Vietnam. […]

After a slide in recent polls, Democrat Richard Blumenthal has comfortable leads over Republican Linda McMahon in two new surveys of likely voters in the U.S. Senate race. Blumenthal has an 8-point lead in a survey done by the Merriman River Group for the CT Capitol Report and a 12-point lead in a separate survey […]

Democrat Richard Blumenthal and Republican Linda McMahon left their inaugural debate Monday night satisfied that neither had suffered a gaffe likely to haunt the remaining 28 days of their U.S. Senate campaign. On the Bushnell stage in Hartford, Blumenthal and McMahon alternately threw jabs and retreated to well-practices lines directly out of their TV ads. […]