The Nose: Tally Goes To Malloy; Foley Not Ready To Concede
The nose breaks down the crazy week in Connecticut politics.
I remember saying -- less than two years ago -- that my reason for staying alive was the 2012 election, at which time I assumed that Richard Blumenthal and Joe Lieberman would contend for the latter's Senate seat. That was before I knew Chris Dodd would retire, before I knew what kind of year 2010 would be.
Then, for a while, I thought the race between the hopelessly uptight attorney general and the woman from the Sodom and Gomorrah of American entertainment would be the zenith of political theater of the absurd.
How little we know.
Today, our panel The Nose will discuss how it came to pass that Samuel Beckett is dictating daily scripts from the grave for the unfolding of our Governor's race.
You may remember that Linda McMahon, over the course of her run, frequently defended the WWE as a "Soap opera." Do we have a better one now? Oh yeah.
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E-mail from Ryan
Colin, Susan is alive and well for 2012. CT Politics is local. One of the under stories to the 2012 election season is that the candidates who had the most contact with local activists won. Malloy showed up at our East Granby pasta dinner in 2008 he beat Lamont and Malloy who didn't have those ties. I think the same applies to Blumenthal against McMahon. He shows up for everything. Wyman too. But Susan is a good as anybody at getting out to the opening of garage doors.
E-mail from karl
"It is an extraordinary thing to have a judge hold the polls open for two extra hours."
Let's ask our own Frightened (Then-) Democrat, Joe Lieberman, to weigh in on this. Ten years ago was openly saying "Votes from service-men and -women stationed overseas, which were not received (or stamped as received) by the appointed time on Election Day should be counted".
He literally wanted to count ballots cast by armed forces members who didn't vote or weren't in line by any account, on Election Day, but were responding to media reports that there was no winner well after the polls were closed for them, by extra days, for a demographic which was Republican-leaning. Hell, in Florida they paid Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf tax dollars to do "non-partisan" 'Go Vote' ads.
E-mail from Marian
Can one of your politically-savvy guests comment upon the very lop-sided vote count in New Haven----something like 21,000 for Molloy to 3,000 for Foley? Is that the way the party registration figures go?
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