Mer-rick! Mer-rick!

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Since announcing his candidacy 43 days ago, U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd’s Democratic challenger has raised $44,000 to Dodd’s $1.2 million ...

While [Merrick] Alpert’s fundraising is less than half of the $125,000 raised by Republican state Sen. Sam Caligiuri, early polling data released May 27 showed Alpert getting 24 percent of the Democratic primary vote to Dodd’s 44 percent ...

“Nobody knows Merrick Alpert, the new challenger to Dodd, and it should be troubling to Dodd that this political nobody is still getting a quarter of the Democratic primary vote,” Quinnipiac University Poll Director Douglas Schwartz said.

I keep chipping in, hoping that Countrywide Chris can be deposed, although he recently has sure tried to show that he's on the side of the average American.