The latest polls

MANIFESTO

I can only hope these leads hold.

Overall, I don't think the campaigns have been too heinous. (That is to say, they certainly haven't reached these proportions!) McMahon seems to be running for governor (I mean, after all, how much clout can a US Senator have in creating private sector jobs in Connecticut?), and she's an idiot, but the other candidates haven't exactly distinguished themselves. Blumenthal will never really recover from his inane statements that he served in Vietnam. Malloy has run a good portion of his campaign on what seems to be an untruth, and Foley is just another slash and burn Republican.

While the candidates are nothing to be particularly proud of—since this quartet seems to be the current cream of the political crop in the Constitution State—at least Chris Benoit's father lent a little excitement to the state yesterday.