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CNN Poll: Obama 49 percent-Romney 47 percent among likely voters
With three days to go until the start of the Republican convention, President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney remain deadlocked in the race for the White House, according to a new national survey. A CNN/ORC International poll released...
Tags: Polls, Democratic Party, CNN (tv network), Social Issues, Mitt Romney
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Report From Wild Kingdom
All seven of the ``regular readers'' of my column have noticed that I stopped writing about the threat to us all from the animals. Well, you see, one of the senior editors of this opining department is in cahoots with the animals. She warned me...Tags: New Canaan, Turkey (animal), Triborough Bridge
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Beyond The Lockstep Of Left, Right, Left
Ann Coulter, the willowy Cohen look-alike and conservative provocateur, insists that she is more of a man than any liberal. You know she's just having a little fun. Many talk radio/public affairs TV/newspaper columnists tend to spread the hyperbole a...Tags: Government, Executive Branch, Abortion, Abortion Issue, Medical Marijuana Therapy
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Linda McMahon Trounces Shays In GOP U.S. Senate Primary
The Hartford CourantLinda McMahon, the former CEO of wrestling juggernaut WWE, once again won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, crushing former Congressman Christopher Shays by a 3-to-1 ratio. In her victory speech, McMahon laid out the themes she...Tags: Polls, Hugh Hefner, Linda McMahon, Parties and Movements, Business
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McMahon-Murphy Senate Fight Begins
The Hartford CourantThe resounding primary victories by Linda McMahon and Chris Murphy on Tuesday will launch a fresh onslaught of political ads, arguments about the economy and a never-ending loop of attacks and rebuttals in what will be one of the nation's most closely...Tags: Democratic Party, Linda McMahon, Parties and Movements, Companies and Corporations, Eastern Connecticut State University
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Dems Dump Donovan, Republicans Bet On McMahon, and Maybe That's Why Connecticut is a Blue State
With hindsight, the results of this week’s Connecticut primaries seem to fit the established patterns of both major parties in this state. Connecticut Primary Lesson No. 1: Democratic voters decided it wasn’t smart to choose a 5th...
Tags: Democratic Party, Linda McMahon, Mitt Romney, Parties and Movements, Vince McMahon
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Romney VP pick: What's needed in a No. 2
There is one necessary condition for the selection of a vice president, and that is whether the individual has the experience and capacity to become president of the United States on Day One. Nine vice presidents have succeeded to the presidency upon...
Tags: Chris Christie, Annapolis, Mitt Romney, Science and Technology, Republican Party
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Syria would be no cakewalk
With Bashar Assad waging a brutal war on his own people, there's a definite temptation for Americans to look for ways the United States could use its military power to turn the tide against the dictator. And past interventions in Libya and Kosovo have...
Tags: Libya, Bashar Assad, NATO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Charity
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Apparently We Won't Be Getting $6,000 Linda Promised
The Hartford CourantSo I guess we're not going to be getting that $500 a month Linda's been promising in her campaign ads. Brandi from Naugatuck must be devastated. What happened to our money? It's complicated. To come up with the six-grand-a-year figure, Linda's people...Tags: Chuck Norris, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Hillary Clinton, Joe McCarthy, Lady Gaga
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Gun Debate Over — The Guns Won
The Hartford CourantThe question is: Why would anyone need an assault rifle? As far as I can determine, the answer is: We the people need assault rifles in case the government tries to take away our assault rifles. While this may pass as advanced logic among gun and ammo...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), National Football League, Gun Control, ZZ Top (music group), Mitt Romney
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'Political Landscape' Photo Exhibit At State Capitol Building
Tim Coffey, a Stamford photographer, takes political animals and puts them in their natural habitats. Coffee has a new exhibit of his photographs, opening on Wednesday, Aug. 1, at the Concourse Gallery of the State Capitol Building in Hartford. It's...
Tags: Concourse, Themis Klarides, J Brendan Sharkey, M. Jodi Rell, Lowell Weicker
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