Well, my hopes that I could “live blog” the convention have been dashed. The convention was held at the Expo Center in Hartford. That would be the poor man’s convention center; the Republicans having scored the good one. In any event, my Ipad detected at least three wireless networks in the area, to which I was able to connect, but which were not themselves connected to the net. No pop up box appeared to log on. My wife talked to CtBob, who told her that only the media gets Internet, and it wasn’t not really working for them.
By now all political junkies know that Alpert withdrew shortly after his former home town (Colchester) gave him zero votes and just before his current home town, Groton, was about to do the same thing.
As I write this, the Republican convention is still up in the air, though it looks like McMahon will get it.
It’s going to be a tough race. Blumenthal can expect to be slimed from beginning to end. If this bizarre “news” article in the Times is any indication, the paper of record will pursue its vendetta throughout (it is on the news page, but is nothing more than an anti-Blumenthal screed), while leaving Linda’s sordid past uncovered. It will be up to Dick to to that, so we can only hope he’s up to the task.
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