CT-Gov: Malloy Wins

From skinny-tie ringleader Crisitunity: Via the apparently very busy press department at the DGA, Democrats are apparently declaring victory in Connecticut. That makes Dan Malloy the first Dem governor in the Nutmeg State in over 20 years. (I’m especially pleased with that one, although my experience with Connecticut is pretty much limited to, as Jon Stewart put it last night, it being “the state you take the train through on your way to actual states.”)

56 thoughts on “CT-Gov: Malloy Wins”

  1. I was pretty pessimistic about this one, but it looks like New England turned out as best as we could have hoped, save for Hodes’ old district (and, really NH as a whole). Congrats, Gov. Malloy!

  2. I’m not going to believe any of these until all the votes are in, but if so, congrats future gov malloy.

  3. Someone should write a story on how Democrats managed to lose so little there. This more than anything else tells me this election was about a lot of ugly stuff far beyond the economy — CT voters have elected moderate Republicans before, and apparently could tell the difference.

    I have to wonder how much Linda McMahon alienated potential Republican voters for the other candidates.

  4. And ashamed of my adopted state for electing Pat Toomey. Today I tip my hat to Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, Hawaii, and Delaware for maintaining their sanity while everyone else went batshit crazy (I’m looking at you Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York).

  5.  Not the right section.

    I am trying to track the following races live.

    Do you know the sites?

    1. NY state senate results

    2. Kamala Harris – CA AG race

    3. OR gov

    Apologies for these questions unrelated to the topic.

    And thanks in advance.

  6. Connecticut voters elected Dan Malloy governor, picking the former mayor of Stamford over Republican Tom Foley and giving a Democrat the state’s top office for the first time in 20 years.

    The Associated Press called the race for Malloy, 55, after votes from Democratic-dominated areas of New Haven and Bridgeport gave him an edge. He will succeed Jodi Rell, 63, a Republican who didn’t seek re-election.

    “Democratic Party loyalty in Connecticut won out,” said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Hamden, Connecticut-based Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, in an interview before the election. Democrats outnumber Republicans in the state almost 2-to-1. “Connecticut is a very blue state in what is a very good night for Republicans elsewhere.”

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/…

  7. Ben Chandler

    Sanford Bishop (called defeated, but then came back from the dead)

    Pat Quinn (Dems can finally gerrymander IL now)

    Shumlin (who rolled and smoked Dubie)

    HARRY REID, who shockingly broke the 50% barrier

    Michael Bennet

    Linda Greenstein (a Dem pick-up in the NJ State Senate)

  11. According to the Politico map Foley is up by about 8424 votes with 98.5 in, and almost all the remaining vote coming from a county that Foley is currently leading in (albeit very narrowly).  What exactly is it that makes this a likely victory for Malloy?

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