Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D) just announced his candidacy to replace outgoing Sen. Chris Dodd (D) — and already, a new poll by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm, has him up by at least 30 points on his potential Republican challengers.
Blumenthal leads Rob Simmons
He’s had a sympathetic CNN interview, a Fox News radio hit, a write-up in U.S. News & World Report, stories from The Associated Press and stories in all the local papers. The first week of Rand Paul’s campaign for a U.S. Senate More…
[UPDATE: I misunderstood the parameters of this fundraiser, and over-stated how much was raised. It's been corrected.]
Peter Schiff, the libertarian economist and investor who’s launched a dark-horse bid for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), is raking in cash from a Ron Paul-endorsed, More…
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 More…
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