US Senate race in Connecticut marked by big spending
By The Associated Press HARTFORD — Large amounts of money and manpower are being expended in the final days of Connecticut’s close U.S. Senate race, a contest that has attracted national attention...
View ArticleMcMahon, Murphy have lawyers braced for action on Election Day
By Mary E. O’Leary, Staff Reporter In the tight U.S. Senate race, no one is taking anything for granted, and that means having a squad of lawyers on call Election Day for a quick response if a problem...
View ArticleMcMahon door-hanger says it’s OK to split vote between her, Obama
By Mary E. O’Leary, Staff Reporter HARTFORD — U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon took a lot of heat from Republicans when she ran an ad where several voters explained how they intended to split their...
View ArticleMcMahon, Murphy stay on the trail a day before Election Day
By Mary E. O’Leary, Staff Reporter and the Associated Press HARTFORD – Chris Murphy, the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, brought in former University of Connecticut basketball coach Jim Calhoun as...
View ArticleWith power back, polls ready for possible record voting in Connecticut
By Mary E. O’Leary, Staff Reporter HARTFORD — Secretary of the State Denise Merrill declared Connecticut ready to vote today with power restored to polling places, more than 201,000 new voters on the...
View ArticleService employees union complains about McMahon camp’s purple T-shirts
By Staff The Service Employees International Union complained Tuesday that Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon supporters, wearing purple T-shirts similar to those identified with the union,...
View ArticleMurphy is winner of U.S. Senate race in Connecticut
By Mary E. O’Leary, Staff Reporter Chris Murphy, in the toughest race of his career, beat Republican Linda McMahon Tuesday in a bitterly personal contest for U.S. Senate despite being outspent five to...
View ArticleChris Murphy discusses U.S. Senate race, victory
By Mary E. O’Leary, Staff Reporter NEW BRITAIN — Harry Reid was on the phone, but the new senator-elect couldn’t quite let himself believe that the race that had consumed his life for more than a year...
View ArticleUConn professors analyze McMahon’s ‘Spectacular Failure’ (News Junkie)
CtNewsjunkie reports: “Among the post-election topics analyzed by a panel of UConn political science professors Wednesday was how well Linda McMahon was served by the consultants she paid and the...
View ArticleChris Murphy meets, eats with New Haven supporters
By Mary E. O’Leary, Staff Reporter NEW HAVEN — With the effort and success fresh in their minds, some of the leaders of the city’s Democratic effort to elect Chris Murphy as the state’s junior U.S....
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