Mark Pazniokas

Democrat Dan Malloy’s lead over Republican Tom Foley in the Rasmussen Reports poll has shrunk from 15 percentage points a month ago to seven points in a survey released today. The new survey prompted Rasmussen to move the Connecticut governor’s race from “Solid Democrat” to “Leans Democrat,” with Malloy leading 46 percent to 39 percent, […]

U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman’s refusal to endorse Richard Blumenthal or campaign for the Democratic majority is stretching the patience of Connecticut’s congressional delegation. “It’d be nice to know which side people stand on,” said U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, D-5th District. U.S. Rep. John B. Larson, D-1st District, said Lieberman appears to be “auditioning for […]

Republican Tom Foley has loaned his campaign for governor another $1 million, raising his personal stake in the race to $4 million. He now has raised nearly $4.9 million and spent nearly $4.6 million. Foley recently promised he will not be outspent by Democrat Dan Malloy, who has received $6 million in public financing for the general-election […]

Democrat Dan Malloy’s lead over Republican Tom Foley in the Rasmussen Reports poll has shrunk from 15 percentage points a month ago to seven points in a survey released today. The new survey prompted Rasmussen to move the Connecticut governor’s race from “Solid Democrat” to “Leans Democrat,” with Malloy leading 46 percent to 39 percent, with 12 percent undecided […]

Democrat Dan Malloy’s lead over Republican Tom Foley in the Rasmussen Reports poll has shrunk from 15 percentage points a month ago to seven points in a survey released today. The new survey prompted Rasmussen to move the Connecticut governor’s race from “Solid Democrat” to “Leans Democrat,” with Malloy leading 46 percent to 39 percent, […]

Whether it’s for love or money, Richard Blumenthal is embracing Barack Obama at a time when the president’s approval rating sits at an all-time low in Connecticut. Obama is headlining a $1,000-a-ticket fundraiser for Blumenthal, a Democratic U.S. Senate nominee trying to hold off the best-financed candidate in state history, Republican Linda McMahon. No public […]

MANCHESTER — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York interrupted his own stress-free stroll to re-election Friday to help a neighbor, Democrat Richard Blumenthal. Not that Blumenthal needs it, mind you. Schumer, a prodigious fundraiser who oversaw the Senate Democrats’ gain of six seats in 2008, took pains to avoid the impression that Blumenthal needs […]

A Rasmussen Reports survey released this afternoon has Democrat Richard Blumenthal leading Republican Linda McMahon in the U.S. Senate race, 53 percent to 44 percent. Last month, Blumenthal led, 47 percent to 40 percent. The new poll is the first in which Rasmussen includes “leaners,” people who express no initial preference until pushed. Without leaners, Blumenthal’s lead […]

GREENWICH–It was billed as a rally, but the public portion of Mitt Romney’s campaign stop for Tom Foley clocked in Thursday at 7 minutes, 36 seconds. A longer look required a $1,000 ticket to a fundraiser luncheon that Foley hoped would raise at least $50,000 for his campaign for governor. Romney, the once and presumably […]

GREENWICH – Mitt Romney offered a far different view today than Linda McMahon’s declaration that the campaign trail is no place for a discussion of how to control the cost of federal entitlement programs. In town to headline a rally and fundraiser for Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley, the once and likely future presidential candidate […]

The 2012 race for president comes to Connecticut today. Mitt Romney, the runner up to John McCain for the GOP nomination two years ago, will be in Greenwich for a mid-morning, weekday rally and fundraiser with Republican gubernatorial nominee Tom Foley. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, is one of several likely presidential candidates making the […]

Democrat Dan Malloy and Republican Tom Foley have pledged to make their best effort at naming women to half of about 75 high-level jobs in the next administration. It seems like an obvious political promise for the two major-party gubernatorial candidates to make – given that ahigher proportion of women generally turn out to vote than […]

NEWTOWN — To Democrats who wonder when and where Richard Blumenthal will begin to engage Linda McMahon in their U.S. Senate battle, the answer was not Monday and not here, at the state’s only Labor Day parade. The parade is regarded as the start of the campaign season, perhaps an outdated conceit, given that McMahon […]

Sam Caligiuri says his internal polling in the 5th Congressional District shows him in nearly a dead-heat with the two-term Democratic incumbent, Chris Murphy. A poll by National Research has Murphy over Caligiuri, the Republican nominee, 40 percent to 39 percent. Caligiuri’s base line poll a year ago was 49 percent to 28 percent. The […]