A new Quinnipiac University poll places Dodd well behind his 2010 challenger Rob Simmons. The poll was released today and shows Dodd trailing Simmons,  50-34 percent among Connecticut voters.  Dodd’s approval rating has also dropped to its lowest point ever, with 58% of residents disapproving of the job he is doing as the senior senator [...]

When the average citizen has somethign to say about the way their government is being run, they right a letter. When a politician gearing up for a gubertorial run named Dick Blumenthal has something to say he writes a letter and lets the media know about it. To quote Bloomberg:
In a letter today to Federal [...]

Right now isn’t the best time for Chris Dodd, with his bonus provision and lying about it I think its safe to say a shot against him is a fair one. Former Connecticut congressman and state legislator Rob Simmons seems to agree and has announced that he is has begun raising 5 million dollars (at [...]

Slate has a great article about the inner conflict raging within Republicans as they attempt to reconcile AIG’s waste of taxpayer money and their (understandable) distain for targeted retroactive legistlation.
“The AIG bonus scandal, if we can call it that now, presents something of an existential crisis for the GOP. On the one hand, Republicans can [...]

Chris Dodd has had a long, generally respectable career in politics (something difficult to do) he is chair of the powerful senate banking comittee and one of the more active democrats in the senate. For over a week Fox News has been claiming that the bonus loophole was Dodd’s doing (sorry for doubting you Fox, [...]