Yankee Doodle Daffy

By GAIL COLLINS
NYT

Connecticut used to be the kind of place where you could predict election results by betting on the least-exciting outcome possible. But no more.

Tuesday is Primary Day in Connecticut. Here are some of the big issues:

• If someone employs a large number of people to spend their lives hitting each other over the head with chairs and the occasional sledgehammer, should we hold it against her if she doesn’t provide health insurance?

• If an unemployed millworker is asked to describe her multimillionaire former boss, do you think she’d be more negative if the interviewer plied her with a sandwich?

• What is it about home improvements that politicians find so irresistible?

(Original here.)