Two big, competing narratives are dominating media coverage of the upcoming 2010 elections. The first is that the GOP primaries keep producing candidates who are too wacky to be electable. The second is that the populace is so pessimistic about the economy and cynical about Washington that they just might More…
In an email to supporters last night, former Rep. Rob Simmons (R-Conn.), who had been leading Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) in the polls until the five-term Democrat dropped out, released a memo from his pollster to make the case that the race wasn’t over. According to pollster Neil Newhouse, likely More…
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
Not many party strategists were talking last night, but come January 2011, that’s who many expect to be filling the Senate seats of, respectively, Byron Dorgan and Chris Dodd.
The lengthy speech on health care that Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele delivered on Monday was short on details. Republicans, said Steele, wanted to address “runaway costs,” and had a few ideas on how to do that, such as posting the cost of treatments “openly on the Internet,” supporting More…
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.
So says a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday, which found Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) trailing likely 2010 Republican contender Rob Simmons by 16 points, 50 to 34 percent — the worst margin in Dodd’s decades-long congressional career.
But what’s most interesting is how he’s doing with self-proclaimed members of More…
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