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Claim Check: Pre-Election Roundup of Ads in Connecticut's Senate Race
During the budget battles in Washington in the spring of 2011, a liberal group produced an ad featuring an elderly woman in a wheelchair being pushed through a park by a man in a suit and tie, while America the Beautiful plays in the background and...Tags: Health Treatments, Birth Control, Mammogram, Family Planning, Elections
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McMahon And Obama Go Together Like R's And D's
The Hartford CourantThis is my last chance to tell you what I think about the coming election, because The Courant enforces a period of editorial neutrality right before the vote. So here are a few things I think. I think it's damn strange the way Linda McMahon ran a...Tags: Andrew W Roraback, Colin McEnroe, Political Fundraising, Elections, U.S. Senate
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In U.S. Senate Race, McMahon And Murphy Sticking To Prepared Scripts
The Hartford CourantOn the campaign trail today, prepared statements have replaced free-wheeling press conferences, attack ads dominate and reporters are kept at a distance. These highly scripted campaigns have more in common with reality TV than with politics of the past,...Tags: Journalism, The Voice (tv program), Elections, Government Health Care, U.S. Senate
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October Storm Hits Connecticut
Nov 8 Some 18,000 Connecticut Light and Power customers were still without power midday Tuesday, most in the Simsbury area. About one-third of Simsbury was without electricity, as was a quarter of Avon and Farmington, and many in Granby, Canton,...Tags: Fines, Windsor Locks, Snow Storms, Holidays, Union (Tolland, Connecticut)
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Is $80 Million the Market Price for a Connecticut U.S. Senate Seat?
Former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon has now chucked more than $27 million of her own fortune into her latest Republican campaign for the U.S. Senate. It seems certain she'll spend at least another $3 million before Election Day. So,...
Tags: World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., Barack Obama, Linda McMahon, Elections, U.S. Senate
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Debates Might Make All The Difference
Whether debates influence elections is being hotly, well, debated. This year, they well may. A lackluster job by President Barack Obama in the Oct. 3 debate gave Republican Mitt Romney his first polling lead in a year — four points in the Pew...Tags: Garde Arts Center, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Polls, New London (New London, Connecticut)
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McMahon, Murphy Differ Sharply During First Senate Debate
The Hartford CourantROCKY HILL — In a campaign that's been heavy on personal attacks and light on substance, the candidates for U.S. Senate got serious Sunday morning, tackling important issues such as federal spending, tax policy and Medicare. But the first debate...Tags: Health Treatments, Birth Control, Democratic Party, Family Planning, Elections
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McMahon Switch On Marriage Act: 'Evolving' Stance Draws Fire From The Right
The Hartford CourantLinda McMahon last month won the backing of a prominent social conservative because the Republican U.S. Senate candidate "stuck to her guns" in support for the federal Defense of Marriage Act. But after Sunday's debate, when McMahon reversed her position...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Democratic Party, Elections, Family, U.S. Senate
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Murphy's Starting To Look Like Underdog
The Hartford CourantThursday dawned gray and rainy for Democrats in Connecticut. The previous night, a wooden replica of President Obama stood before the nation blinking helplessly while Mitt Romney became the life of the party. And when their eyelids fluttered opened in...Tags: Parties and Movements, Colin McEnroe, World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., Barack Obama, Democratic Party
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Claim Check: Linda McMahon On Middle-Class Taxes And Job Creation
If there is one topic on which the candidates for U.S. Senate in Connecticut have most consistently confused voters, it is the issue of federal income taxes. And Republican Linda McMahon continues that trend with a television ad revisiting familiar ground...Tags: Democratic Party, Elections, Family, U.S. Senate, Republican Party
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Get Ready For a Tsunami of Attack Ads as the Election Approaches
By now, you're probably getting that "I'm-about-to-vomit" feeling from all those nasty TV campaign ads screaming about the contestants in Connecticut's mud-splattered U.S. Senate and 5th Congressional District campaigns. One small consolation may be...
Tags: Andrew W Roraback, Polls, Elections, Wesleyan University, Media Industry
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Throwing The Flag On Connecticut Candidates
Earlier this week, for one brief shining moment, our badly divided republic came together so gloriously that Paul Ryan and Barack Obama were finishing each other's sentences. Everybody agreed that the replacement refs were ruining professional football....Tags: Dannel P. Malloy , NAACP, Football, Colin McEnroe, Democratic Party
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