AG Race: Is Connecticut Ready For Tea?

Martha Dean arrived in a New Haven coffee shop and ordered a Nirvana bottled water. On the campaign trail her tastes have run more toward tea—as in “Tea Party.” Both she and her opponent for Connecticut attorney general say that works in their favor.

More than any other statewide race this year, the contest for attorney general pits two candidates with up-front, divergent political philosophies and visions for running a government office.

The election will also test the question of whether the tea party movement that has changed politics this year in states like Delaware and Nevada (and maybe even New York) is gaining traction in the Land of Steady Habits.

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