Q-Poll: Tom Foley Stalls 7 Points Behind Dan Malloy.
Today’s Quinnipiac Poll will prompt Republican Tom Foley to engage in one of his trademark rounds of phone calls seeking and discarding advice on how to attract support from independent voters to close the stubborn 7-point gap between the Greenwich Republican and frontrunning Democrat Dan Malloy. The former ambassador to Ireland will need help from women voters, too, among whom he trails by a daunting 20 percentage points (55-35).
The Q-Poll finds Mr. Malloy leading 49-42, with the November 2nd election 17 days away. With Democrats solid in support of their party’s nominee (89-5), the Republican needs to increase his lead among independent voters by far more than the 4-point advantage he enjoys in the survey of 1,119 likely voters.
Both campaigns have been locked into variations of the same themes for weeks. Team Malloy says Foley is a greedy corporate pirate. The Foley campaign unmasks Malloy as a free-spending, high-taxing mayor of Stamford. If, as Daily Ructions hears, there’s something new in the offing from the Republican plutocrat, this would be a good day to unveil it.
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The question voters need to ask is what have the Democrats done for this state? We have had Democrat control of the legislature and our Congressional delegation to what end? We have the second high electric rates in the country after Hawaii, of the gas tax only 32% of it goes to transportation, and we get only 69% back from every dollar we send to DC. The Dems have raised our taxes again and again and nothing has gotten better. Remember the ‘temporary’ income tax, they have not cut a budget, have used the emergency fund and put off funding pensions. Yet unions support them because they know they control the Democrats and the Democrats will not cut a budget. Yes Republican candidates are not perfect but we need to restore balance to our government and that means not electing Democrats.
Tom Foley seems UNTRUSTWORTHY, plain and simple.
A rich opportunist, nothing more. The way he jumped from the Senate race to the Governor’s race was a clear indicator of his lust for power. It seems he cares more about “Foley Power” than for “Serving The Voter Of CT.”
A sad combination of raw ambition, ruthless business tactics, and highly self-absorbed narcissism. The arrests. The nasty divorce. The faked security clearance. The Bibb bankruptcy and the flaky denials. Pocketing $millions while throwing thousands of folks out of work. Over-stated claims about his role in Iraq. No substantive agenda or platform, just slick TV ads and platitudes.
This imposter needs to be sent back to his Greenwich mansion, not the Governor’s mansion. He reminds me of Gordon Gekko, and I do not mean that as a joke.
This article and sleazy-looking photograph should be posted all over Connecticut as Tom Foley’s DEFEAT POSTER: http://ctmirror.org/story/6576/gop-challengers-go-after-foley-past-arrests
Tom Foley is scary. He has slickly wrapped himself in $6 Million worth of fancy TV ads, and I think most of them are LIES, or at least half-truths. Foley seems to adjust the truth to fit the situation. I agree with the New York Times endorsement, Malloy is the better of the two. I want a Governor who has NEVER BEEN ARRESTED, how’s that for simple, eh? I want a Governor who is NOT A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE because most of the voters in CT are also NOT millionaires, ok? I want a Governor who built up the state’s finest city (Stamford), not a cut-throat corporate raider who wiped out thousands of jobs, looted the company, wrecked a whole town, then bought an ambassadorship from his buddy George W. Bush. I want a Governor who lives good values like Malloy, not one like Foley who fought a bitter divorce for years in Court. I’ll take Dan Malloy all day, any day, over this guy Foley, and my whole family is Republican!
Tom Foley is back-pedaling faster than a circus clown on a uni-cycle !
I read a blog about Foley that said it all: “Foley’s Folly-Nomics!”
His loosely articulated generalities and vague proprosals about how he will fix the CT economy and fix Hartford defy logic, and show that he really has no clear actionable plan, no viable hope for being successful. He just wants the power of saying “I am the Governor” so he can springboqrd his way to Washington DC, which is his unstated but very obvious true objective.
Like all good Corporate Raiders, he has hidden agendas, and they are self-centered on what’s good for Foley, not the working people of CT.
“Foley’s Folly-Nomics” will not work, and Tom Foley is the wrong choice for Governor at this time. He has to explain his arrests, for goodness sakes! That is not the caliber of person that we want in the Governor’s office.
Malloy is a dedicated public servant. I like what he did for Stamford. I believe he can have the same positive effect in Hartford, long term. Not overnight, but long term. And he’s shown himself to be a long term dedicated player in the CT governance scene.
Foley is a passing fad with rich voters. He will fade into wealthy obscurity right after he loses. Adios, Mr. Foley. Nice try. You might as well start composing your concession speech right now.
Tom Foley’s concession speech on November 2 should include an apology that goes something like this: “Sorry everybody, I really SHOULD have disclosed those two arrests and the security clearance problem in advance of running for office, rather than keeping it hidden until an investigative reporter un-covered it.”
Tom Foley is losing this election, for good Cause.
Connecticut should not put a man in charge in Hartford who has to EXPLAIN HIS ARRESTS.
Dan Malloy will emerge from the election froth as a good leader.
Dale Westerfeldt
An “Undecided” Voter