[AMSS]

Shelton mayor just put his name in to run also. I won't vote for him, so I will check out the Danbury mayor. Here's hoping someone can get rid of Malloy. I wouldn't call him inept. I'd call him dangerous and destructive.

[Mike 75]

Like last election, Malloy will have to rely on heavy turnout in the cities, which are heavily Democratic, to have a chance to win. He only beat Foley by about 5,000 votes, and there were all sorts of shenanigans with ballots in Bridgeport, which pushed him over the finish line. He's also pissed off a lot of people with the retroactive tax increase, the gun ban and the busway. I think the suburbs and rural areas will tend to support the Republican candidate as a result. Will that be enough to beat him? Who knows. It's too early to tell, but I think he's vulnerable.

[jdhall1]

Boughton is just a regular guy. Not wealthy, just hard working. He taught the high school was I was there. His wife owns a kitchen cabinet shop in town. His father was a the mayor of Danbury back in the 1970s. He's done a good job in Danbury with growing the economy, keeping taxes down and he is very involved in the community. Danbury has the lowest crime rate in the state. Anyone can do a better job than Mallory.

[Stratford, Ct. Resident]

Originally Posted by Mike 75

Like last election, Malloy will have to rely on heavy turnout in the cities, which are heavily Democratic, to have a chance to win. He only beat Foley by about 5,000 votes, and there were all sorts of shenanigans with ballots in Bridgeport, which pushed him over the finish line. He's also pissed off a lot of people with the retroactive tax increase, the gun ban and the busway. I think the suburbs and rural areas will tend to support the Republican candidate as a result. Will that be enough to beat him? Who knows. It's too early to tell, but I think he's vulnerable.

I'll call it right now. If the Republican nominee is Boughton, McKinney, or Lauretti, Danny Boy will get whooped in the election.

[MrGompers]

In case people have forgot this is the same guy that wanted to team up with the feds.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/ny...anted=all&_r=0

[Mike 75]

Wasn't Lauretti under investigation by the Feds?

[JayCT]

Originally Posted by MrGompers

In case people have forgot this is the same guy that wanted to team up with the feds.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/ny...anted=all&_r=0

So? What was wrong with that? Jay

[Stratford, Ct. Resident]

Originally Posted by Mike 75

Wasn't Lauretti under investigation by the Feds?

Probably still is.

One of the longest running investigations i can recall.

[NewJeffCT]

Originally Posted by Mike 75

Like last election, Malloy will have to rely on heavy turnout in the cities, which are heavily Democratic, to have a chance to win. He only beat Foley by about 5,000 votes, and there were all sorts of shenanigans with ballots in Bridgeport, which pushed him over the finish line. He's also pissed off a lot of people with the retroactive tax increase, the gun ban and the busway. I think the suburbs and rural areas will tend to support the Republican candidate as a result. Will that be enough to beat him? Who knows. It's too early to tell, but I think he's vulnerable.

I doubt the people upset about the gun ban will be voting for Malloy anyways, and probably didn't in 2010. The overall legislation was favored by large majorities of independents and Democrats, and was about 50-50 among Republicans. Foley won Newton by 2,200 votes in 2010, one of his largest margins on a town-by-town basis. I'm guessing that somebody running on repealing the gun legislation will lose some of that margin.

The city turnout was very low in 2010 - Bridgeport turned out fewer voters than nearby Norwalk, and barely beat out Fairfield and Greenwich in voter turnout (both of which went Foley). You can say Malloy won because of the margin in some of the big cities, but he didn't win because of big city turnout. He won in spite of it - Hartford turned out even fewer voters than Bristol, Danbury or Milford. Malloy's total margin in the top 20 towns/cities (on a turnout basis) is almost entirely offset by Foley's advantage in high turnout small towns - those 100 or so towns with turnout under 10K voters. The towns in between were almost even.

As I said above, Malloy is an uninspiring candidate who didn't turn out city voters in 2010, and hasn't really done anything in office to inspire city voters to turn out in greater numbers in 2014: Didn't Malloy & Democrats in the legislature scale back a larger min. wage increase? The gun ban will play well in the suburbs, but it will be a few years since it passed, so it's effect will be muted.

[Stylo]

Originally Posted by MrGompers

In case people have forgot this is the same guy that wanted to team up with the feds.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/ny...anted=all&_r=0

And the problem is?