March 21, 2010
Waiting for a Breakout Moment
For the first time since the retirement of Gov. Lowell Weicker in 1994, Connecticut’s voters will go to the polls unable to elect a new governor as incumbent Gov. M. Jodi Rell will retire from public service at the end of her term. The eight candidates looking for the Republican nomination to succeed Rell – [...]
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March 7, 2010
Going Greenwich in the Year of the Populist
U.S. Senator Scott Brown’s historic victory in Massachusetts served notice to politicians across the nation: Republicans can do populism, too. Amid waves of economic discontent, Mr. Brown’s everyman image and populist rhetoric on taxes and spending propelled his candidacy in a manner not seen since 1994’s Republican Revolution. In attempting to learn the right lessons, [...]
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