Connecticut State could be the swing state in Election 2016.

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For CT to go Republican would mean structural change in the national GOP to where social issues are a minimal factor in who becomes the GOP Presidential nominee.  The Democratic shift in the Northeast since 1992 has been, in no small measure, a direct rebellion against the Religious Fundamentalist in the GOP that have a veto over its Presidential nominee and its platform.  The GOP in CT has always been a moderate-to-liberal party.  I can think of no elected Republicans in CT in my lifetime that were truly conservatives, with the possible exception of former Gov. Thomas Meskill.  The most conservative Republican nominated for office in CT in my lifetime was Jim Buckley, the 1980 GOP Senate nominee, and he lost in the Reagan landslide.