The Cook Political Report, led by the intrepid prognosticator Charlie Cook, has changed their rating on Sen. Chris Dodd’s re-election effort from “Toss Up” to “Lean Republican”:
As a general policy, the Cook Political Report does not rate unindicted incumbents worse than “Toss Up,” at least until Labor Day of [...]
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush predicted on CNBC that former U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons will defeat incumbent Democrat Christopher J. Dodd in the 2010 U.S. Senate race.
Bush, whose grandparents and father lived in Greenwich for years, is familiar with Connecticut and served as the keynote speaker at the annual Prescott Bush Awards dinner [...]
Tweet today from influential polling analyst and statistical genius Nate Silver, the guy behind FiveThirtyEight. He thinks Joementum is worse off than PA's Rick Santorum was back in 2006.
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She’s got a few thousand dollars and support from two car repair groups. Can Peggy Rogers jumpstart a campaign that would roll over a popular incumbent?
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[...]Wallingford (WTNH) – Jerry Labriola, Jr., a Naugatuck attorney, announced today he will seek the Republican nomination for the Third Congressional District to run against 20-year incumbent Democrat Rosa DeLauro of New Haven.
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Tom Perriello is latest manifestation of a politician abandoning core beliefs.
By Adam Shapiro
One year ago, I watched election results coming in for Virginia's Fifth Congressional District, where my friend and colleague Tom Perriello was challenging incumbent Virgil Goode, Jr. CNN kept flipping the winner because the [...]
Hartford (WTNH) – With the departure of Sam Caligiuri from the race for U.S. Senate and Tom Foley likely to follow, the Connecticut Democrats issued the following statement:
“For an allegedly “vulnerable” incumbent, Chris Dodd may not seem like such an easy picking to the candidates running against him. In [...]
Connecticut Democrats are closely watching the shake-up across the aisle. Party spokeswoman Colleen Flanagan said today's departures of Sam Caligiuri and Tom Foley indicate a growing consensus among the GOP that Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd may not be as easy a conquest as they had initially hoped.
"For an allegedly 'vulnerable' incumbent, Chris Dodd may" [...]
Tom Foley, the former Ambassador to Ireland, Bush fundraiser, and Republican U.S. Senate candidate released a statement Tuesday saying he is considering entering the race for governor.
"We no longer have an incumbent Governor seeking re-election. I have had a number of conversations with" [...] 
Bringing her campaign to the morning bacchanalia outside the Yale-Harvard Game, U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon declared her trust in President Obama on Afghanistan -- but not on health care reform.
McMahon, one of five Republicans running to unseat Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd [...] 
