connecticut

Yesterday, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) thrust himself into the center of the health reform debate by suggesting that he’ll support a GOP filibuster if the bill contains a public insurance plan, as the Democrats’ proposal does.
It’s not exactly news that Lieberman opposes the public option. In June he was telling reporters that (1) the country [...]

Yes, according to Alec’s brother Stephen, who spoke to The Washington Times today:
Actor Stephen Baldwin said Thursday his older, more-famous brother Alec Baldwin is seriously considering a challenge to Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman.
“Sure, I think Alec has some very interesting ideas that are common sense and logical that he would like to share with folks,” [...]

From The Hartford Courant:
U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd has been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer.
Dodd is scheduled to undergo surgery during the Senate’s August recess and said he expects to be back at work after a “brief recuperation” at home.

Republicans hope to hold out on health care until the fall, staving off a public plan.

The controversial Austrian School economist, who won Internet fame for a video of his many predictions of a housing bubble burst, is strongly considering a Senate run in Connecticut. The draft site is here.
Schiff would be disrupting the plans of Rob Simmons, a Republican congressman from 2001 to 2007 who is already running against Sen. [...]

As the Senate today continues debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) credit card reform proposal, Dodd’s 2010 GOP opponent, former Connecticut Rep. Rob Simmons, just issued a statement asking the Banking Committee chairman a biting question: What took you so long?
Credit card reform is long overdue and if Sen. Dodd wasn’t so busy collecting hundreds [...]

We know that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), burned by voter anger over his coziness with Wall Street, received only $4,250 in donations from actual residents of his home state during the first three months of this year.
That’s not great news for the embattled Dodd, who is fighting for his political life [...]

Reporters seeking Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) first quarter fundraising filings were met with silence for most of yesterday. Now we know why.
Though Dodd has already raised more than $1 million in 2009 — a handsome sum that places him well ahead of the Republicans he could face in next year’s election — only five individual [...]

Ben Smith at Politico takes us back to June 2008, when McCain campaign manager Rick Davis laid out an ambitious electoral strategy that included, among other things, a push to take such states as Connecticut.
For comparison, I dug up a presentation (PDF) by Obama campaign manager David Plouffe from the same month.
The result: The Obama [...]