Debate: Everyone Loves A Tea Party

Senate candidates debate for the first time in Hartford

 

Afghanistan. Everyone loves those “passionate” Tea Partiers. And all that hullabaloo over the Vietnam War? That wasso last summer.

That’s how the world—or at least Connecticut’s electorate—thinks.

At least that’s what you would might believe after watching the first head-to-head debate Monday night between the two major-party candidates for Connecticut’s open U.S. Senate seat.

Democrat Richard Blumenthal and Republican Linda McMahon met for the first of three debates at Hartford’s Bushnell theater. FoxCT and the Hartford Courant hosted the debate. For a play-by-play live blog of the debate with color commentary, scroll down farther into this story.

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