CT Sen: POLL SHOCK! Quinnipiac sez Dodd trails all candidates

[Sam Spade]

Could be 1 in 20 of course.  Still, if I were the DSCC...

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1284.xml?ReleaseID=1283&What=&strArea=;&strTime=0

Approvals
33% Approve
58% Disapprove

Dodd/Simmons
Simmons 50%
Dodd 34%

Dodd/Foley
Foley 43%
Dodd 35%

Dodd/Caliguari
Caliguari 41%
Dodd 37%

[Brittain33]

Wow, Dodd really sucks.

Who are you making fun of when you use titles like this and "BREAKING"? I haven't seen anyone else here use labels like that.

[Sam Spade]

Wow, Dodd really sucks.

Who are you making fun of when you use titles like this and "BREAKING"? I haven't seen anyone else here use labels like that.

Actually wasn't making fun of anyone here, brittain.

I was just surprised at how far Dodd's position had fallen to the point where he was losing to third-tier unknown Republican candidates.   That constituted an actual *shock* to me. 

[Lunar]

Who are you making fun of when you use titles like this and "BREAKING"? I haven't seen anyone else here use labels like that.

He's mocking Drudge

Dodd is the Democrat's non-senile Bunning.  I wonder how Generic (D) holds up against these Republican candidates.

[Holmes]

But he didn't put the sirens.

Come on, challengers...

[Keystone Phil]

I'm sure Dodd can dirty up "too conservative for Connecticut" Caligiuri and his four point lead would evaporate but Simmons sitting at 50% is really good news.

[Lunar]

Can Obama just give Dodd an appointment to somewhere in the state department?  He speaks Spanish, so Politico's Smith suggested an Ambassador to Mexico.

[minionofmidas]

Surprising.

[Keystone Phil]

Can Obama just give Dodd an appointment to somewhere in the state department?  He speaks Spanish, so Politico's Smith suggested an Ambassador to Mexico.

Yes, please! Senator Simmons even earlier thanks to Governor Rell. 

[Lunar]

Well, he could accept the appointment when his term is up fairly easily.

anyway..



Asked whether they plan to vote for Dodd for reelection, just 35 percent said "definitely" (eight percent) or "probably" (27 percent) while 59 percent said "probably not" (19 percent) or "definitely not" (40 percent).

[Rowan]

Who to believe, an independent pollster or someone who polls for Kos? Hmmm....

[Brittain33]

He's mocking Drudge

Thanks.

[© tweed]

so Blumenthal might be hopping in after all

[Rowan]

so Blumenthal might be hopping in after all

After his beatdown by Glenn Beck, he might want to rethink that.

[Landslide Lyndon]

so Blumenthal might be hopping in after all

After his beatdown by Glenn Beck, he might want to rethink that.

Yeah, I imagine that Glenn Beck's word is the gospel of truth in Connecticut.

[Rowan]

so Blumenthal might be hopping in after all

After his beatdown by Glenn Beck, he might want to rethink that.

Yeah, I imagine that Glenn Beck's word is the gospel of truth in Connecticut.

Have you even seen the interview? Blumenthal looked like an idiot.

[Landslide Lyndon]

so Blumenthal might be hopping in after all

After his beatdown by Glenn Beck, he might want to rethink that.

Yeah, I imagine that Glenn Beck's word is the gospel of truth in Connecticut.

Have you even seen the interview? Blumenthal looked like an idiot.

And Beck looks like someone who escaped from a mental institution.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Can Obama just give Dodd an appointment to somewhere in the state department?  He speaks Spanish, so Politico's Smith suggested an Ambassador to Mexico.

Yes, please! Senator Simmons even earlier thanks to Governor Rell. 

And then he's gone in 2010 and the seat is safe. It's not much different than Bunning's threat to resign that you brushed off.

[Lunar]

so Blumenthal might be hopping in after all

After his beatdown by Glenn Beck, he might want to rethink that.

What % of the undecided electorate in Connecticut will have seen that interview by election day?  0.1%?

[Keystone Phil]

Can Obama just give Dodd an appointment to somewhere in the state department?  He speaks Spanish, so Politico's Smith suggested an Ambassador to Mexico.

Yes, please! Senator Simmons even earlier thanks to Governor Rell. 

And then he's gone in 2010 and the seat is safe. It's not much different than Bunning's threat to resign that you brushed off.

Uh, how is he automatically gone and the seat is suddenly safe? Simmons then has an incumbent advantage and he's a moderate.

I don't know how Bunning's threat (which I brushed off) is related. Dodd isn't threatening to resign. It was an idea that Lunar came up with.

[TheresNoMoney]

I'd like to see Chris Murphy as the next Senator from CT.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Can Obama just give Dodd an appointment to somewhere in the state department?  He speaks Spanish, so Politico's Smith suggested an Ambassador to Mexico.

Yes, please! Senator Simmons even earlier thanks to Governor Rell. 

And then he's gone in 2010 and the seat is safe. It's not much different than Bunning's threat to resign that you brushed off.

Uh, how is he automatically gone and the seat is suddenly safe? Simmons then has an incumbent advantage and he's a moderate.

Simmons was an incumbent who lost in a House seat that's more Republican than the state at large. The Democrats are favored in any CT Senate race with a non-tainted incumbent, that's pretty obvious.

[Keystone Phil]

Can Obama just give Dodd an appointment to somewhere in the state department?  He speaks Spanish, so Politico's Smith suggested an Ambassador to Mexico.

Yes, please! Senator Simmons even earlier thanks to Governor Rell. 

And then he's gone in 2010 and the seat is safe. It's not much different than Bunning's threat to resign that you brushed off.

Uh, how is he automatically gone and the seat is suddenly safe? Simmons then has an incumbent advantage and he's a moderate.

Simmons was an incumbent who lost in a House seat that's more Republican than the state at large. The Democrats are favored in any CT Senate race with a non-tainted incumbent, that's pretty obvious.

Yes, he lost in a horrible year.

Just because he's from CT doesn't mean that he'd definitely be a goner in a midterm election.

[Lunar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkyRw7kfi04&eurl

Rob Simmons as beholden to lobbyists and corporate special interests, says the DSCC's new ad.

[justfollowingtheelections]

Dodd won't run in 2010.  It will probably be someone like Murphy or Himes.  Menendez already said that he's backing Dodd all the way which can be translated as Dodd won't run.