Election

Nick on January 22nd, 2010

Danbury blog The Hat City Blog reports that Mayor Mark Boughton will indeed run for Governor. This is based on their review of Internet records revealing that Boughton or someone representing him registered the domain name BoughtonForCT.com on Wednesday, January 20th. It’s claimed that Boughton has little name recognition outside of the Danbury area but [...]

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And according to Rasmussen, Senator Dodd would lose to every Republican, even Peter Schiff, whose financial media stardom hasn’t resulted in any name recognition in Nutmegland.
Former GOP Congressman Rob Simmons is still his toughest opponent, leading Dodd 48% to 35%. Seven percent (7%) prefer some other candidate in this contest, and 11% are undecided. Those [...]

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Nick on November 13th, 2009

IN his column today, The Courant’s Rick Green says farewell to the old economy, complete with a scary graphic showing that Connecticut has lost over 15,000 manufacturing jobs in the last year.  And then Mr. Green wonders if anyone is listening.
Actually, considering his appearance on the panel with Peter Schiff on Face The State, I [...]

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Nick on November 9th, 2009

She will be remembered well. Lt. Gov. Fedele will definitely be a candidate, as he states in this Channel 8 video.
Whoever wins will need our prayers for the thankless task that awaits – dealing with Connecticut’s seemingly intractable budgetary and revenue problems.

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Republican candidates prevailed in most major races yesterday and, as Vincent at Connecticut Local Politics points out, Connecticut exemplified the trend better than anywhere.
Like New Jersey, we are a deeply blue state, so to see the GOP win in places like Stamford and Norwich and Stratford shows that something major was going on last night. [...]

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Nick on October 22nd, 2009

The Courant’s Rick Green opines that incumbents like Mr. Dodd and Mrs. Rell are in trouble as unemployment here will hit 10% in 2010. Quoting Mrs. Rell’s top economic advisor:
Delinquency rates on single-family mortgages have risen four-fold since 2006, and consumers are spending less and saving more given overall economic uncertainty. This means continued pressure [...]

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Here’s Congressman Pete Stark of California having another hard day, telling a constituent (at about 1:35) that he wouldn’t dignify him by peeing on his leg because it would be a waste of urine.
I’m not kidding.
It seems that the political pressures of the summer are causing everyone’s true colors to come out.
Oh well, closer to [...]

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Nick on November 17th, 2008

As an almost final word on the elections, here’s an interesting map from the Courant showing who voted for whom, town by town, and which towns switched from being a red town to a blue town.

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Nick on November 7th, 2008

Popular author and teacher Dutch Sheets is one of the best-known proponents of governmental intercession in the US and, along with others such as Cindy Jacobs and Lou Engle helped popularize and promote spiritual warfare concepts in the 90’s and the beginning of this century. So I was interested to see Sheets’s take on [...]

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Nick on November 6th, 2008

How many did he really reach? Not as many as one might have thought in the months leading up to November 4.  Says Time:
And yet despite the inroads Obama made with religious constituencies, there is one voting bloc that remains largely unmoved by Obamamania: white Evangelicals. One-quarter of them voted for Obama on [...]

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