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Boughton may be running for Governor

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 … Continue reading

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Connecticut Senate race generates nationwide interest

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 … Continue reading

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Farewell to a number of things…

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 … Continue reading

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Governor Rell will not run again

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 … Continue reading

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Connecticut election results show broad dissatisfaction

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 … Continue reading

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Connecticut incumbents looking at tough road next year

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, … Continue reading

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Election season coming early. Actually, it never ends anymore.

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 … Continue reading

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Interesting analysis of 2008 Connecticut voting

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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Dutch Sheets and the election

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 … Continue reading

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Obama and the Evangelicals

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 … Continue reading

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