Only 5 state residents donated to Dodd

Connecticut Post | Apr 17, 2009 | Peter Urban

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U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd appears to have looked everywhere but his home state to fuel what pundits anticipate will be one of the most hotly contested races in the nation in 2010.

The five-term incumbent reported raising just $4,250 from five Connecticut residents during the first three months of the year while raking in $604,745 from nearly 400 individuals living outside the state.

While incumbents often turn to special interests for early campaign fundraising, Dodd's out-of-state total seems unusually high and comes at a time when he has been plagued by poor approval ratings among state voters.

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Overall, Dodd's campaign reported ending the first quarter of 2009 with nearly $1.4 million cash on hand, according to campaign finance documents filed Wednesday.

The $1.4 million gives Dodd a leg up on a growing field of potential Republican challengers who have yet to file financial reports on their campaign fundraising efforts.

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Dodd's job approval rating -- as measured by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute -- sank to a historic low of 33 percent last month in the wake of the AIG bonus scandal. Many voters surveyed blamed Dodd, who is chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, for allowing taxpayer money to be handed out as bonuses to the AIG executives.

[Jim from C-Town]

My thoughts exactly. I would be surprised if he loses. The Democrat party is hardwired into election theft. They have every laid off auto worker,SEIU member, low life college intern in congress, every inner city church reverend, all members of the recently released mental patients running around signing up every person living or dead then filling out ballots for them and sending them in.

There will never be another clean election in this country what with early voting and the push for absentee balloting. I am sure that a full 30% of all voter registrations in major cities are either for dead people or are outright fraudulent.

[matthew fuller]

Adios, DOOD!

[38special]

He’ll win. The democrat lemmings in Connecticut will vote him back in. Just watch.

[Diogenesis]

as if it matters, dodd's only real constitutents left are those
who give him KICKBACKS for getting them taxpayer $$$$$$$$$$

[Joe Boucher]

Should Connecticut re-elect this piece of crap the state should not be allowed to leave the union, the state should be thrown out of the union for stupidity.

[Califreak]

BTTT