Posted on 07/23/2009 7:05:18 PM PDT by LdSentinal
Despite multiple television commercials by his campaign and third-party advertisers, U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd is still behind Republican Rob Simmons in the latest Quinnipiac University poll by nine points, 48%-39%.
The poll shows Dodd defeating state Senator Sam Caligiuri of Waterbury by 42 percent to 40 percent, and Dodd is tied with Greenwich multi-millionaire Tom Foley at 42 percent.
In the battle for name recognition, Dodd is far ahead. Some of the Republican challengers, however, are barely known at all.
Even though Dodd has been in public life for 35 years, 7 percent of the adults polled said they have not heard enough about him to form an opinion. Some insiders say that an adult in Connecticut who has never heard of Dodd is very unlikely to vote at all.
Of those polled, 95 percent said they did not know enough about Democrat Merrick Alpert, a potential Dodd challenger. Also, 84 percent did not know enough about Caligiuri and 77 percent had not heard enough about Foley. For author, television pundit and undeclared candidate Peter Schiff, it was 89 percent who did not know enough to form an opinion.
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I’d so love to see Dodd out on his proverbial by a republican.
the republican is a RINO. We want Peter Schiff to win who will take the fight, not another RINO who just backbench
funny they only mention tom as a multi millionaire
I’m sure Dodd is a multi millionaire too
Drip, drip, drip.
I’m not from Connecticut, and perhaps have spent a cumulative 3-40 hours in that state - but I’d be thinking that with all of Dodd’s tenure and all the money behind him - that whomever is polling that far ahead of him on the GOP side better be ready for a ruthless onslaught. If any of the GOP candidates have any skeletons - it’s time to bail.
Is Rob Simmons a RINO? Simmons needs to make himself acceptable to conservatives by demanding see Obama’s birth certificate. :)
Simmons was my congressman in the 5th district. I met him a few times and he seems to be a nice guy. I met Dodd once and he his a pompous jerk. I asked him a question about Fannie Mea and he went moonbat on me.
This is connecticut we’re talking about here, any republican winning there is a god send or would you rather have another Dem
The biggest commie and crook in the Senate played politics in the 1980s with national security. He should have been arrested for treason but I’ll settle for seeing him thrown out on his fat azz.
At this point, RINO is better than Dem. The reason the dems dominate right now is because they were willing to run what they might call DINOs in red states. I’d prefer the fight be between Conservative and RINO instead of between the far Left and the Blue dog Dems.
Obama effect??? heheehehehehehe
He was mine also. When he voted against one of President Bush's measures i emailed his office and told him that I would never vote for him again and would influence my 50+ relatives in his district not to vote for him. He called me from the capital to tell me he was voting his conscience and my wife told him we were voting ours in the next election.
State Senator Sam Caligiuri of Waterbury is the real deal; conservative, morally upright and loyal to this country. I worked with him on the first Rowland campaign and have followed him throughout the years, especially when he rescued Waterbury after the pervert mayor's scandal.
As a CT native, I just want Dodd out. If he’s replaced by a RINO, so be it. This is the Northeast, and the chances of electing a die-hard conservative are near zil. I’d love to see a Reagan clone win Dodd’s seat, but it isn’t going to happen. Take any Republican that wins in CT and run with him. He won’t be perfect, but he won’t be Dodd.
Simmons is pro-choice, but he isn’t terrible on other issues. He got an A rating from the NRA while in Congress. He voted for the Bush tax cuts and energy policy. He voted for the border fence and is opposed to immigration reform that includes amnesty. He also supported the war on Terror and the war in Iraq. He is bad on a few other issues (pro-gay rights, slightly environmentalist), but overall he’s pretty much as good as you can expect in Connecticut and he’s clearly been polling as the strongest Republican candidate.
Simmons was NARAL endorsed even when running against a pro-abort DEM. He is 100% behind the Planned Parenthoood population control program and his brother, the California doctor, is involved with NARAL.
He cannot unite the party .... he stuck with his NARAL radicalism even though it cost him the margin which led to his defeat in ‘06.
I have several friends in CT, whose political views range from Reagan conservative to independent to Lieberman left. All of them, and I mean ALL of them, want Dodd’s head on a pike.
Not a scientific polling, of course. But from what I gather, there are a lot of people who feel the same way. Whether that translates into enough anti-Dodd votes in 2010, I couldn’t say. I hope so, though.
I just hope that Dodd stays in the race, as he’s the main reason the Republican candidates are polling so well.
Simmons lost in 2006 by 83 votes in a Congressional district that typically votes +10-15% for Democrats in Presidential elections. He proved he could compete in a district that was hostile overall to Republicans, which pretty much describes Connecticut. I’m only interested in beating Chris Dodd and I think Simmons is the one who could pull it off.
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