2012 Election

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon is campaigning Monday with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at rallies in Stamford, Waterbury and Glastonbury. Other than debates, it is her first publicly scheduled campaign event in weeks. Christie, who has clashed with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy over their approaches to taxes and state employees, was a primetime […]

Voter rolls have swelled by 130,000 since the first of the year, with Democrats picking up nearly twice as many members as Republicans, 45,625 to 23,379. Another 58,310 new voters registered as unaffiliated. The state now has more than 2 million voters: Unaffiliated, 842,335; Democrats, 744,729; and Republicans, 422,312. Voter registration always spikes in presidential […]

Gotcha! Not exactly. Linda McMahon’s campaign press release that asserted Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch “was caught on camera telling Congressman Chris Murphy, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, that he will receive a ‘big turnout in Bridgeport.’ “ He wasn’t caught on camera, at least not in the sense that no one otherwise would know […]

With Joe Biden’s visit Saturday, the running mates on each presidential ticket now have come to Connecticut with the same mission — to collect checks, not to campaign. Biden was in Kent for a fundraiser. Access was limited to pool coverage. Here is the pool report of The Courant’s Daniela Altimari: Vice President Joe Biden […]

In a Rasmussen Reports poll taken Sunday after their first debate, Democrat Chris Murphy led Republican Linda McMahon in the race for Connecticut’s open U.S. Senate seat, 51 percent to 46 percent. The poll released today asked no questions about whether respondents had seen the debate broadcast on WFSB and C-SPAN, but no calls were […]

In its second attack ad against Republican 5th District congressional candidate Andrew Roraback, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee tries again to tie him to the tea party members of his party. The new ad is called “Pyramid,” and begins running Tuesday as House Speaker John Boehner hosts a fundraiser for Roraback at the Hartford Club in […]

Not a good day for fans of the president. As reported by WaPo, Pew’s new national poll shows Romney with a four-point lead (49 to 45 percent) after trailing by eight points before the Denver debate. Yes, that’s a swing of 12 points.

The curious campaign of Chris Murphy grows curiouser. One of Murphy’s talking points is that he is the candidate of issues, and Linda McMahon is the candidate of smears and personal attacks. So, Murphy obviously was happy that McMahon was the only major Senate candidate this year unwilling to sit for an hour on WNPR […]

Feel awash in political ads? Over the last three weeks, viewers have been subjected to 3,588 television commercials related to the race for Connecticut’s open U.S. Senate seat, according to a report released today by the Wesleyan Media Project. But that only ranks the state as 13th by advertising volume, though not by dollars. The poor […]

The congressional campaign of Republican Andrew Roraback is using old public-access video of Democrat Elizabeth Esty telling opponents of a local tax increase in Cheshire, “You’re always welcome to move to one of our neighboring towns.” In a television ad going on the air Thursday, the snippy snippet is used twice in 30 seconds. The […]

Brandon McGee of Hartford topped Leo Canty of Windsor on Tuesday in the court-ordered continuation of a Democratic primary that resulted in a tie after two recounts. The Courant reports that Canty, a long-time official in the American Federation of Teachers, blames the late flow of a money into the race by an education reform […]