October 6, 2010

Michelle Obama is coming to Connecticut on Oct. 18 to campaign for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal. No other details are available yet. U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., is headling a rally Saturday in Milford for Republican Linda McMahon.

Rasmussen Reports is showing Democrat Richard Blumenthal with a post-debate bump. In a poll taken the night after his televised debate with Republican Linda McMahon, Blumenthal led, 54 percent to 43 percent. A week ago, his lead in the Rasmussen was 50 percent to 45 percent. The poll of likely voters has a margin of error […]

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has reserved another $1.2 million in TV air time in Connecticut for the final three weeks of the hotly-contested Senate race between Richard Blumenthal and Linda McMahon, according to The Fix, a Washington Post blog. That comes on top of the nearly $500,000 the DSCC laid out earlier this week to […]

WASHINGTON-Sen. Joseph Lieberman wants to expand and make permanent a controversial federal education grant program, even though Connecticut has twice lost out in the competition for such money. Lieberman, an independent, is pushing legislation to change the Obama Administration’s Race to the Top initiative from a one-shot federal stimulus program into an enduring feature of […]

The major party candidates for governor both made the job much harder Wednesday, pledging to spare municipal schools from a $271 million drop in federal aid despite the largest projected budget deficit in state history. Democrat Dan Malloy and Republican Tom Foley’s respective pledges drew a sharp rebuke from third-party gubernatorial candidate Tom Marsh, who […]

The procedure used to remove Southern Connecticut State University’s former president was illegal, the attorney general’s office said Wednesday, just as a Connecticut State University System committee recommended creating a “more transparent” termination process. The legal opinion, signed by Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, said the CSUS Board of Trustees improperly delegated its authority to approve […]

Republican Tom Foley says if elected governor he can balance the budget without laying off state employees, but he faulted Democrat Dan Malloy today for making a similar pledge to a union. The Foley campaign distributed an endorsement questionnaire in which Malloy told a state employees union he does not support layoffs or changes in […]

Two-term U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy is more than 5 percentage points behind Republican challenger Sam Caligiuri in northwestern Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District, a new poll says. Caligiuri, a state senator from Waterbury, has a 49.7 to 44.3 percent lead over Murphy, according to the new CT Capitol Report poll conducted by the Merriman River Group. […]

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dan Malloy got lift Wednesday as two new polls showed him leading Republican Tom Foley by 8 and 10 percentage points, respectively. These new results come after two previous polls said the race was essentially a dead heat, with Malloy’s small lead falling close to the margin of error. The latest figures […]