With long voter lines reported in many communities, voter turnout could match the 78 percent mark achieved during the landmark 2008 presidential race, the state’s chief elections official reported late Tuesday afternoon. “I think we’re going to hit 75 to 80 percent, and we could even be on the high side,” Secretary of the State […]

As with Tropical Storm Irene, the effect of storm Sandy on the bird population of Connecticut and its habitats may not be known until next year’s nesting season. But the folks who keep an eye on these things think there will be both good and bad news then. A Great Frigatebird glides overhead The one thing […]

Check out the graph below, courtesy of Ezra Klein’s Wonkblog, from the Washington Post. It’s a breakdown of reasons registered voters gave for not voting in the 2008 election. This graph represents about 15 million people: So out of 15 million people, 5.3 percent — nearly 800,000 — didn’t vote because of transportation problems. That’s […]

Linda McMahon and Chris Murphy put a final gloss on Connecticut’s rawest, most expensive campaign Monday, making a last tour of the state before voters go to polls Tuesday to choose a new U.S. senator for the second time since 2010. Murphy, 39, the three-term Democratic congressman whose campaign once seemed in free fall, appeared […]

With 100,000 new voters registered in the past six weeks and power restored to all polling places, Connecticut’s chief elections official said she hopes other aftereffects of Hurricane Sandy won’t keep voters from casting ballots Tuesday. “The bottom line is Connecticut is ready to vote tomorrow,” Secretary of the State Denise W. Merrill said Monday […]

Hartford — In the year of the Super PAC, congressional and presidential elections across the country are smashing records in campaign spending, and Connecticut’s races are no exception. As of a week ago, $74 million had been spent by candidates and outside parties in Connecticut on races for Congress, close to the record set in […]

Farmington — For Republican Andrew Roraback, the last lap in his year-long bid for Congress includes a lot of stops for breakfasts, at least four of them Sunday. Roraback’s Sunday began at breakfasts held by Republican town committees in Kent and Thomaston, followed by more breakfasts hosted by the Farmington Fire Department and Wolcott Lion’s […]

U.S. Senate candidate Chris Murphy stood in a chilly, wind-blown parking lot Saturday, listening to Congressman John B. Larson and the presidents of two national public-employee unions exhort dozens of volunteers about to go door-to-door in Hartford on behalf of him and other Democrats. The scene would be repeated throughout the weekend. Murphy’s fate on […]

Norwalk — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Saturday he thinks the Obama administration will declare most of Connecticut, with the exception of Hartford County, a major disaster area, opening the door to a variety of aid. The governor was in Norwalk and Bridgeport Saturday with Lieut. Gov. Nancy Wyman, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Rep. Jim Himes, […]

The U.S. Senate campaign resumed Friday with a full day of public events by Democrat Chris Murphy and a stealthier schedule by Republican Linda McMahon, whose campaign resumed its pre-storm practice of declining to share more than a few details of McMahon’s whereabouts. Both campaigns aired new ads, including an appeal by President Obama for […]

BRIDGEPORT — In their last debate before next Tuesday’s elections, 4th District Democratic Congressman Jim Himes and his Republican challenger, Steve Obsitnik, repeated the same messages they have throughout the campaign, and — as in past debates — struggled to define their differences. “I agree with Mr. Obsitnik on this point,” was a phrase uttered […]

Tens of thousands of Connecticut commuters breathed collective sighs of relief late Wednesday when Gov. Dannel Malloy announced they could take the train all the way from New Haven to New York and back again last night. For those who had to get to work earlier in the week, though, the announcement marked the close […]