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CT-Gov: Malloy Wins

by: James L.

Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 12:52 PM EDT


From skinny-tie ringleader Crisitunity: Via the apparently very busy press department at the DGA, Democrats are apparently declaring victory in Connecticut. That makes Dan Malloy the first Dem governor in the Nutmeg State in over 20 years. (I'm especially pleased with that one, although my experience with Connecticut is pretty much limited to, as Jon Stewart put it last night, it being "the state you take the train through on your way to actual states.")
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Nice
I was pretty pessimistic about this one, but it looks like New England turned out as best as we could have hoped, save for Hodes' old district (and, really NH as a whole). Congrats, Gov. Malloy!

NY-14, DC-AL (college) Distraught Mets fan
I think Kuster should run again
She would be very strong in 2012, especially if there's a neutral environment unlike the headwinds she faced yesterday.


21,Democrat, NY-02, male
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Maine
Damn shame about LePage, I was hoping Cutler could keep him out of office.  

21, Dem, NY-15 (formerly NJ-05)
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Yeah. Thanks Libby Mitchell !!!
You screwed the pooch on that one for us.  
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wow that was a close race.
I'm not going to believe any of these until all the votes are in, but if so, congrats future gov malloy.

Top ten signs you're an SSPer #1: your favorite song is "Panic At Tedisco" and no one understands what you mean.
Clearly CT knows how to get it done
Someone should write a story on how Democrats managed to lose so little there. This more than anything else tells me this election was about a lot of ugly stuff far beyond the economy -- CT voters have elected moderate Republicans before, and apparently could tell the difference.

I have to wonder how much Linda McMahon alienated potential Republican voters for the other candidates.

I think she had a lot to do with it
Especially how she really seemed to alienate moderate, independent women as the campaign went on.  
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Thing is,
the anti-incumbent sentiment didn't resonate here on the state level, as our departing governor is a Republican. Granted, she's reasonably popular, but Republicans couldn't effectively blame the economy on Dems. That helped us a lot here.
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That makes sense
I guess I wondered if the anger might still hit out at other officials, as it did in some states with departing GOP governors, like Florida or the Dakotas or South Carolina.

How is the economy in CT?

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Malloy
I live in NYC so I have seen ads for the CT gov race and i just knew that malloy was vulnerable when he ran those ads criticizing foley for as he puts it "lying" about never being arrested and to the FBI. When a candidate has to resort to personal attacks like "my opponent is a liar" than they have a very good chance of loosing. When Malloy had the lead I wondered whether the daily ads about Malloy RAISING TAXES 14 STRAIGHT YEARS would be effective and it turns out they were. And that ad about Malloy trying to take a small business owner's property because of eminent domain was very effective in my opinion. Voters say negative ads don't work, but if it wasn't for the daily negative ads that Foley ran then he wouldn't be on the verge of coming all the way back to take a lead in the polls after being down throught the entire campaign.

proud dem
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No one ever said that negative ads don't work.


party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01
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Proud of my home state
And ashamed of my adopted state for electing Pat Toomey. Today I tip my hat to Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, Hawaii, and Delaware for maintaining their sanity while everyone else went batshit crazy (I'm looking at you Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York).

19, male, Dem, CT-04 (home) PA-02 (college and registered)
California didn't go crazy either. I'm glad I live here.

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After what happened here in TX, I want to go home! :'(


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28, New Democrat, Female, TX-03 (hometown CA-26)
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Sweet home California
Where the skies are so blue, and the Governor's true... and the Attorney General.
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Hit the road, Meg, and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.
Hit the road, Meg, and don't you come back no more!
What you say?
Hit the road, Meg, and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.
Hit the road, Meg, and don't you come back no more!

Oh' Cali, oh Cali, don't treat me so mean,
You're the meanest California that I've ever seen.
I guess if you said so
I'd have to pack my things and go. (That's right)

Hit the road, Meg, and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.
Hit the road, Meg, and don't you come back no more!
What you say?
Hit the road, Meg, and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.
Hit the road, Meg, and don't you come back no more!

Now Cali, listen Cali, don't ya treat me this-a way
Cause I'll be back on my feet some day.
(Don't care if you do 'cause it's understood)
(you ain't got love you just no good.)
Well, I guess if you say so
I'd have to pack my things and go. (That's right)

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28, New Democrat, Female, TX-03 (hometown CA-26)

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Oh well
The GOP in NY can say goodbye to one seat because of redistricting, and possibly up to 3-4.

Fear not, friends, New York will return to the Democratic fold.

21,Democrat, NY-02, male

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Did the Dems hold the Senate?
If not, the only change will be NY-23 disappearing.  
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Right now
It looks like it will be a 31-31 tie. Oy vey.

21, Dem, NY-15 (formerly NJ-05)
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Tie-breaker?
Does Lt. Gov cast the decisive vote in the event of a tie?
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PA didn't go crazy
Sorry but Toomey eeked something out here and certainly has no mandate to anything but sit in the Senate minority as the junior Senator from PA with very little seniority.  He did not defeat an incumbent either.

When I look at PA house delegation, only Barletta is truly crazy.  the rest are just GOPers in a relatively normal vein.  Same with NY.

PA-Guv, we never had a chance.  

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They're going to be foot soldiers for extremists
They will probably just vote how they are told. Toomey is just sort of there, unlike Santorum, but his Club for Growth fielded one extremist after another.  
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Please
Toomey was elected Senator where he'll be in the minority party with little if any power.  He can vote how he wants, but seriously the guy is pretty much going to vote to the right on fiscal issues which is what got him elected.  CfG is really more concerned with pro-business, anti-tax anyways.

We all need to stop acting like last night the US elected 15 new Republican presidents that all have veto power over Obama and Jesus.  

We have a 6 seat majority in the Senate for 2 more years.  2012 will be a nailbiter but its not like we will be below filibuster proof in 2012 even if things don't go our way and.

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The Senate GOP will have plenty of power
46-47 senators, plus enablers like Lieberman and Ben Nelson. Look at how much the Senate GOP managed to block or push through when they had only 40 seats.

"CfG is really more concerned with pro-business, anti-tax anyways. "

On paper yes but I always thought it was strange that not one social moderate ever seemed to get any notice from CfG. CfG favorites like Bill Sali were known for telling women that abortion gives you breast cancer, not for anti-tax views.

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Undoubtedly, the Sen Dems will have to get creative.


Ad hoc, ad loc and quid pro quo!
So little time, so much to know!
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GOP Power vs Toomey power
They're not synonomous.  He'll have no power.  He's 1 of 100 just like everyone else, with no authority to block anything on his own even on commmittees.

I'm not at all worried about Lieberman or Nelson switching because they still need 2 more to get their stuff moved through.

They can block but can't push.  Its like being an offensive line.  The GOP will be able to provide pass protection (block Dem legislation) but won't be able to run the ball downfield (move their own legislation forward).

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Aside from Sali, who else said such things?
I mean is he a 1-person sample?

Its not inconsistent that hard right fiscal people might also be hard-right socially.  Its just CfG isn't known for pushing that social agenda near as much as the fiscal one.

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Are there any CfG candidates who weren't hard right socially?
I don't remember any. When I looked on Wikipedia the only one I saw was John Sununu.

Other CfG favorites include Tim Walberg, Doug Lamborn, Tom McClintock, Jim Ryun, Ken Buck, Jim DeMint, Michelle Bachmann. They gave Sharron Angle 600K.

I'm not sure if any of those are known for their expertise on fiscal matters.  

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All advocates of smaller govt
This is basically saying the CfG favors republicans.  Of course it does.  It does not mean CfG seeks out liberal spenders who are scoial conservatives.

Fine me the free-sepnding social conservative backed by CfG.  Its hardly their platform, its a convergence of idealogies that's pretty easy to find (i.e. people who are socially liberal would have a much higher tendency to be fiscally liberal too)

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I think they would be out there
Some of those backed by CfG seem to primarily be known for their social views, with the economic views an afterthought. Surely CfG was not created for someone like Sharron Angle, whose only economic policy was to vote "no" all the time?  
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Umm....
that's EXACTLY what it was created for.
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For Sharron Angle?
That's kind of scary.
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Re: Barletta being the only crazy in the new PA House delegation
Isn't Marino crazy too? Aside from being a crook?

I think wanting to abolish or slash Social Security within a decade qualifies:

"Asked by WKOK what programs he would cut, Tom Marino, who is 58 years old, answered: "Let me address Social Security. ... My generation and probably the generation that follows me, we are going to have to step up to the plate and say, We are not going to get Social Security." [..] "It would have to be cut for my generation," Marino said of Social Security. "My generation is probably going to have to work longer. If we get anything it is going to be less.""

38, Male, SP, NL / LMP, HU

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Question
 Not the right section.
I am trying to track the following races live.
Do you know the sites?

1. NY state senate results

2. Kamala Harris - CA AG race

3. OR gov

Apologies for these questions unrelated to the topic.

And thanks in advance.

Someone PLEASE give me good news about OR-GOV
PLEASE!!!!!!

26, Male, Democrat, TX-26
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Re OR-Gov, if you didn't see this elsewhere...
...one news report online projects that if "current trends" hold in the 2 strongly Dem counties with almost all of the outstanding votes, then Kitzhaber would win by a razor-thin margin.  Those counties are Multnomah, with Portland, and the county based in liberal Eugene.

So there you have it.

43, male, Indian-American, Democrat, VA-10

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She's narrowly ahead for right now
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here
CA-AG: http://vote.sos.ca.gov/maps/at...
I really don't know if Kamala Harris can hold on. 600 out of the 800 remaining precincts are in San Bernardino... but she does have a 31,000 vote lead at the moment.

OR-Gov: http://gov.oregonlive.com/elec...
We're basically just waiting for Portland, and Dudley leads by 15,000 votes. Should be close.

Twitter.com/Taniel

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Harris
Harris still ahead (3,275,606 to 3,253,307) with 99.2% or precincts in.
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The AP has called it too
Connecticut voters elected Dan Malloy governor, picking the former mayor of Stamford over Republican Tom Foley and giving a Democrat the state's top office for the first time in 20 years.

The Associated Press called the race for Malloy, 55, after votes from Democratic-dominated areas of New Haven and Bridgeport gave him an edge. He will succeed Jodi Rell, 63, a Republican who didn't seek re-election.

"Democratic Party loyalty in Connecticut won out," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Hamden, Connecticut-based Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, in an interview before the election. Democrats outnumber Republicans in the state almost 2-to-1. "Connecticut is a very blue state in what is a very good night for Republicans elsewhere."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

The Dems who have a right to party hard after last night.
Ben Chandler
Sanford Bishop (called defeated, but then came back from the dead)
Pat Quinn (Dems can finally gerrymander IL now)
Shumlin (who rolled and smoked Dubie)
HARRY REID, who shockingly broke the 50% barrier
Michael Bennet
Linda Greenstein (a Dem pick-up in the NJ State Senate)

Ad hoc, ad loc and quid pro quo!
So little time, so much to know!
Seriously, Reid had the best campaign ever.
Without a doubt, key members of his campaign staff will now be worth a fortune!

Ad hoc, ad loc and quid pro quo!
So little time, so much to know!
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I was really amazed that
after all the talk about NOTA and third party people, he actually won an absolute majority of the vote.
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GA-02
Bishop came back from the dead twice. Considering that he won by 5000, you have to wonder why they called it so early.
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CT Dems as a whole can hold their heads high
Dems won everything in CT, from governor down. A few state lege seats may have changed hands, but the Dems had a supermajority in both so a loss or two is no big deal. Jim Himes and Joe Courtney, and Chris Murphy deserve special mention.

Himes won a very tough district by bringing out minority voters in a midterm year, while keeping his other pro-Wall Street rich constituents largely in his column.

Courtney made the usually volatile-in-wave-years CT-02 a cakewalk, though his opponent did flame out. Still, to win 60-39 shows he's put in the tough work to gain respect from his constituents. He even almost out performed both John Larson and Rosa DeLauro. Remember he only won by 83 votes four years ago.

Murphy continues to impress; it seems the district voted GOP for governor and maybe senator but he still got an 8 point victory over a competent opponent. We can speculate about a Senate run in 2012, but I hope he thinks hard about entering because I'd hate to lose a such a talent so early in his career.

25, Male, CT-01 (home), Perth-Wellington riding (sometimes)

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Question
Whom amoung the "I will not vote for Nancy Pelosi" Dems actually survived to make that vote?  Anyone other than Heath Shuler?

28, Unenrolled, MA-08
Dan Boren?
If he didn't say that I'm sure he wanted to...
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Joe Donnelly toyed with it, but I doubt he would.


Ad hoc, ad loc and quid pro quo!
So little time, so much to know!
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well, that should teach them a lesson.


party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01
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I always figured they said that b/c they knew we were losing the House......
Everyone who said that did so after Labor Day, IIRC.  It was around Labor Day that I conceded in my mind that we very highly likely would lose the House.  That's when we really cratered in generic House ballot polling (the consensus at that point worse than last night's 52-45 result), and it was clear we had too many vulnerable seats NOT to lose at least 40 or so.

I really think all those people figured it would never come down to their vote.

And they were right.

Even if Nancy stays on as the standard-bearer in the ceremonial vote, those Dems who said that and survived can vote against her without consequence since it won't be remembered.

43, male, Indian-American, Democrat, VA-10

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How Do They Do That?
With 95% of the polls reported, Malloy is behind by 6810 votes. Unless they mixed up the numbers for the candidates?
I go to bed, and wake up
to see Malloy and Shumlin won, and Kamala Harris leading.

:D!!!!

21, dude, RI-01 (registered) IL-01 (college)
please help Japan. click "donate funds" in upper right and then "Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami." http://www.redcross.org/

Strange numbers
According to the Politico map Foley is up by about 8424 votes with 98.5 in, and almost all the remaining vote coming from a county that Foley is currently leading in (albeit very narrowly).  What exactly is it that makes this a likely victory for Malloy?
That's Fairfield County,
home to CT's largest city (Bridgeport), which was late to report.
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Thanks
That makes sense then :) .  Hopefully they'll get those results in soon!
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Jon Stewart's right
I've been to Connecticut a few times but the vast majority of the time I'm just passing through on the way to NY/NJ.

21, dude, RI-01 (registered) IL-01 (college)
please help Japan. click "donate funds" in upper right and then "Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami." http://www.redcross.org/
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