Connecticut on the Ropes
By GAIL COLLINS
NYT
HARTFORD
Republicans have been pointing to Connecticut as a place where they could win the game-changing 51st Senate seat. They were originally hoping to take that seat in Delaware until enthusiastic primary voters nominated a woman who is currently trying to reassure the state that she is not actually a witch.
So this week’s Senate candidate debate in Hartford was a big deal. Particularly since, thanks to the science of modern polling, we know that the race is virtually a dead heat. Or Democrat Richard Blumenthal is ahead by about 12 percentage points. Definitely one or the other.
Blumenthal, the state attorney general, is nothing if not a familiar face. “I’ve spent 20 years listening to people in Connecticut. There’s a joke about Dick Blumenthal: If there’s a garage door opening, he’ll be there,” he said proudly. People, is this the sort of thing you would really want to brag about?
His opponent, Republican Linda McMahon, is running as a businesswoman who helped build her family’s World Wrestling Entertainment business into a sports empire so successful that it was able to create programming with prestigious partners such as the “Girls Gone Wild” franchise and allow the McMahon family to achieve the American dream, including a self-financed Senate campaign and a yacht named Sexy Bitch.
(More here.)
NYT
HARTFORD
Republicans have been pointing to Connecticut as a place where they could win the game-changing 51st Senate seat. They were originally hoping to take that seat in Delaware until enthusiastic primary voters nominated a woman who is currently trying to reassure the state that she is not actually a witch.
So this week’s Senate candidate debate in Hartford was a big deal. Particularly since, thanks to the science of modern polling, we know that the race is virtually a dead heat. Or Democrat Richard Blumenthal is ahead by about 12 percentage points. Definitely one or the other.
Blumenthal, the state attorney general, is nothing if not a familiar face. “I’ve spent 20 years listening to people in Connecticut. There’s a joke about Dick Blumenthal: If there’s a garage door opening, he’ll be there,” he said proudly. People, is this the sort of thing you would really want to brag about?
His opponent, Republican Linda McMahon, is running as a businesswoman who helped build her family’s World Wrestling Entertainment business into a sports empire so successful that it was able to create programming with prestigious partners such as the “Girls Gone Wild” franchise and allow the McMahon family to achieve the American dream, including a self-financed Senate campaign and a yacht named Sexy Bitch.
(More here.)
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