Posted on 11/01/2018 3:19:30 PM PDT by BillyBonebrake
Republican Bob Stefanowski has inched ahead of Democrat Ned Lamont by 2.4 percent in the governor’s race, which remains a statistical tie heading into the final weekend before Election Day, the latest Hearst Connecticut Media Group/Sacred Heart University Poll finds.
The poll, released Thursday afternoon, shows that Stefanowski is now up 40 percent to 37.6 percent, with unaffiliated candidate Oz Griebel of Hartford at 9 percent. Just over 12 percent of those surveyed remain undecided. Stefanowski gained a 5.8 percent point swing over two weeks, the poll finds.
Lesley DeNardis, executive director of the Institute for Public Policy at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, said that over the course of the four polls put out since the summer, Stefanowski has closed the gap and nosed ahead.
“A week before the election, Connecticut voters are settling in, and unaffiliated voters are supporting the Republican as well,” said DeNardis, who is also director of Sacred Heart University's master of public administration program. “High taxes, the state budget and low economic growth continue to be the major factors influencing voter opinion so, ultimately, the race will hinge on who voters believe will do a better job returning our state to economic health, creating new jobs and offering more long-term solutions tied to improved quality of life and cost-of-living issues.”
The landline and cell phone survey was conducted by GreatBlue Research, among 500 likely voters between October 29 and 31, and has a 4.32 percent margin of error.
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CT a sleeper Trump state in 2020?
Hope so
this bodes well elsewhere
Stefanowski is not a very suitable candidate for Connecticut, but it seems like he is winning anyway. The voters say the Dems have had their chance, let’s try something else.
Connecticut has a lot of potential, with highly-educated people and lots of engineers and skilled tradesmen. We could do quite well if we could get decent government.
Connecticut had supposedly been on their radar in 2016, but I think that was wishful thinking.
Things like this are a “tell” on the groundswell for the GOP everywhere.
Wow. What a night Election Night could be...!
If this sort of thing happens, I would never be more proud of my home state.
Like I have recounted many times though, the Conservatives in that state are afraid to put their best foot forward. They put forward only “GOP lite” candidates with this thought that “Anyone too conservative would never win” and “We need to just unseat dems”.
The result is that anywhere a republican exists in CT they are actually RINO a-holes.
As far as the conservative-at-large I have only one experience that has been mirrored literally thousands of times while working the campaign trail there. “But” republicans.
The only one out there worth his salt was John Cinque who has now done what was smartest and left to enjoy his life. After that, there is no Conservative left in the state.
CT might vote for a change with Stefanowski getting a Republican state Senate and a House that might need Republicans to govern (may not flip the state house, but the Dems might need them to work to get Connecticut better...). I’d love to see Connecticut become a thriving state again...
Any GOP win east of the Delaware River should be seen as a gift from God.
You forgot another hellhole: Waterbury. That said, the middle class is pulling stakes faster than those in Fairfield County. A nurse or a machinist can still make a good wage in South Carolina without the high taxes and crumbling infrastructure wrecking their cars on the way to work in New Haven or Hartford. The Greenwich hedge fund manager, who likely rides a train into that essential hub of Manhattan, cannot.
I have a soft spot in my heart for Waterbury. My Dad,my Hero,did lots of business with Timex in the 50's and 60's.Waterbury is only about a 2.5 hour drive from where we lived and I still remember him telling my mother "I'm on my way to Waterbury.I'll probably be late".
I don't think there's a way to save CT except to default. I don't think there is any state with a higher public employee to private employee ratio in the country. Not enough producers left to pay for all the eaters.
The state needs to default and the state employees and retirees given a haircut.
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