Category: Conn. Campaign
GOP candidates for governor to debate
Posted by ConnPolitics.tv Staff on March 18th, 2010
West Hartford, Conn. (AP) -- Eight Republican candidates for Conn. governor are scheduled to face off in their first live, televised debate. The hour-long match-up will air at 7 p.m. Thursday on NBC Connecticut.
The list of candidates includes Lt. Gov… more »
Dodd: You can't buy an election
Posted by ConnPolitics.tv Staff on September 18th, 2009
Hartford (WTNH) - This is the first time Dodd has commented publicly about the growing field of millionaires who want his job.Looking slimmer but fit, Chris Dodd made his first public appearance since Ted Kennedy's funeral and his own recent prostate sur… more »
Kennedy goes to bat for Dodd
Posted by ConnPolitics.tv Staff on June 20th, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Edward Kennedy is going to bat in a new TV campaign ad for his longtime pal more »
Obama draws moderate Conn. voters to claim victory
Posted by ConnPolitics.tv Editor on November 4th, 2008
Hartford (AP) -- Political moderates have joined Barack Obama's strong base of Democratic support to help the Illinois senator capture Connecticut.
Associated Press exit polls found Obama's established appeal among liberals was supplemented by those… more »
Bridgeport is battleground for 4th Congressional District race
Posted by ConnPolitics.tv Staff on November 4th, 2008
(WTNH) -- As of 3:30 p.m., Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz is reporting that 50-percent of registered voters have already cast their ballots. That fact is evident in Bridgeport, where a hotly contested race between incumbent Republican Chris Shays… more »
Students man the polls
Posted by ConnPolitics.tv Staff on November 4th, 2008
Hamden (WTNH) -- Voters are expected to turn out in record numbers in Connecticut so election officials turned to college students to help work on Election Day. "We have a number of students from Southern who we specially trained for the tasks they are d… more »
Dem gets OK to run for seat resigned by Wilber
Posted by ConnPolitics.tv Staff on October 28th, 2008
Hartford (AP) -- A judge is overturning Connecticut election officials and allowing a write-in candidate to run for the General Assembly seat being resigned by Colebrook Democrat George Wilber amid sexual abuse allegations. The secretary of the state's o… more »
Poll: Shays and Himes in dead heat
Posted by ConnPolitics.tv Staff on October 20th, 2008
(WTNH) -- Democratic Challenger Jim Himes and Republican Chris Shays are in a fierce fight to represent Connecticut's fourth district. With two weeks to go until election day, a second poll now shows a very close race for New England's sole Republican me… more »
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