Posted on 01/15/2008 1:24:54 PM PST by UCAL
It’s Election Day in Connecticut.
Voters in the 32nd Senatorial District (Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Middlebury, Oxford, Woodbury, Roxbury, Seymour, Southbury, Thomaston, Watertown) head to the polls today to choose between Watertown Town Councilor Rob Kane and Kenny Curran, the Democrat Town Committee Chairman in Bethlehem and the former employee of corrupt Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez. The Waterbury Rep-Am has the story. Capitol Watch weighs in, too.
The first Senate race run with public dollars, Headless Horseman commented, gotten nasty of late, as Curran criticized Rob Kane for missing Town Council meetings. Damning, yes? Well, it turns out that Mr. Kane did miss the meetings, but not for nothing - his mother died. Not Mr. Curran’s finest hour.
Tune in later this evening as we get the results from the 32nd Senate District.
*BUMP*
Keep us posted on the results, please.
Rob Kane, the Republican, has defeated Ken Curran (D) in the special election in the 32nd district. They are still getting final numbers, but it appears as though 60% of the vote has gone for Rob Kane, perhaps 65%. GOP Hold
Thanks ! Pinging some other folks to hear the results.
Still, I miss the days when Connecticut had three state representatives per city/town, no matter how large or small.
Baker v. Carr was partly to blame for that. The irony in going to one-man, one-vote is that the rural Democrat machine rule is STILL in place (even with far fewer of them in office) in my state.
Oddly enough, however, "nonpartisan" districts for congressional districts actually works in favor of the GOP. This is more difficult at the state level, due to the necessity of giving Hudson/Essex/Bergen/Middlesex so may (Democrat) seats.
Hard to believe things have gone downhill so far in NJ since the ‘90s.
The rodents haven’t received a majority of the vote for the legislature in TN since the early ‘90s, but thanks to grotesque gerrymandering, they maintain majorities for themselves (currently, at least, for the US House and House of Reps, but we broke the lesser-so gerrymandering in the State Senate). We’re hoping to break it this year (at least in the State House), but even if we get a 1-seat majority, we have a dictatorial rodent Speaker who has held power for over 20 years who has several RINOs in his back pocket that will vote for him. It’s sickening.
I assume that all ten towns mentioned are wholly within the district. If that’s the case, then President Bush got 57.70% of the vote in the district in 2004 (31,780 out of 55,082 votes cast). I can’t believe that the Hartford mayor thought that he could get his aide to win in a 58% Bush district in Litchfield and New Haven Counties (not even in Hartford County, where the Mayor may have more influence). What a maroon.
They did have a much more qualified individual running for the democrat nomination - a former ambassador. Obviously, Perez’s influence was sufficient to hand the party nomination to his favored candidate. In doing so he probably killed their chances for the general.
The district may have a GOP registration edge but that seems to matter less and less. Republicans have lost ground in the State House and Senate each election since 1986. This includes loosing four House Seats during the 1994 GOP landslide. We have had districts and incumbents, once thought safe, lose to democrats each year. Only the democrats have “safe” seats.
Well, the way I see it, if George W. Bush gets 58% in a CT district in 2004 (when he got a tad less than 44% statewide), that’s a pretty Republican district right there. I doubt even a former ambassador could beat a competent Republican in that district. But you’re right that, with the way that CT Republicans have messed up over the past decade, even expected wins are good news.
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