I am looking at the closely contested Governor's race in my home state of Connecticut.
Currently, the count is 517,209 to 515,437.
That means that 1,032,646 (more or less) people voted in the Nutmeg State.
According to Wikipedia "Connecticut is the 29th most populous state, with 3.5 million residents" and has over 2 million registered voters. belonging to 27 parties. I do not know which parties endorsed the Gubernatorial candidates other that the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
I am kind of proud of my state. We had a voter turnout of approximately 50%. That's about the highest I ever heard of. I believe that there was so much publicity about our Senate race, that people actually showed up to voice their opinion.
The Candidates for Senate from my point of view:
Linda McMahon (R)) - Believe it or not, she was the CEO of the entertainment company World Wrestling Federation. She and her husband built the company from a smallish regional business into a multi billion dollar organization. She stepped down to run the Senate race. Although her campaign had many positive things to say, I think what did her in was her negative advertising. It was 30 seconds of Dick Bluenthal did this bad thing Dick Bluenthal said this bad thing, asked if you wanted Dick Bluenthal to be your next senator. Then the ad finished with a nice bright cheery I'm "Linda McMahon and I am running for senate". Dumb Dumb Dumb ... repeat the other guys name 3 times and yours once. Okay. Now you are in a voting booth and see the names against each other. Which one do you fill in the blank for? Of course. The one whose name you heard most often. I heard some people say that is why they voted against her.
Dick Bluenthal (D) - Career politician. Was our Attorney General for years and had lots of fun throwing spectacular lawsuits around. I think his heart is in the right place, but he sold out years ago and will do or say anything to anyone to get elected. I would not trust him to hold my coffee. He would spill it on his lap and sue me for burning his willy. Most recently his party tried to deny voters wearing the garb of their favorite wrestlers the right to vote! claiming it was political advertising.
I wore my Clearwater Shirt. Now That's political advertising, isn't it?
Interestingly enough, I believe our Founding Fathers did not want career politicians. They wanted merchants and traders and manufactures to spend some of their time serving their country in office, then go home to their jobs.
