by Scott Whipple (New Britain Herald)

Last Election Day, millions of voters nationwide frustrated with the current administration in Washington voted Republican.

But not in Connecticut.

Here in The Land of Steady Habits, the Grand Old Party failed to pick…

by Mark Pazniokas (CT Mirror)

Dan Malloy’s election as governor was a double victory for the Working Families Party: Its cross endorsement was crucial to his narrow win, and Malloy unequivocally supports its top issue, a bill requiring private employers…

Stan Fisher (New Haven Register)
Nov 5, 2010

WESTBROOK — Pending a mandatory recount of ballots, Democrat James Crawford eked out a narrow 22-vote victory Tuesday over Republican challenger David Denvir as the new state representative for the 35th…

Mark Pazniokas (CT Mirror)

With pollsters predicting tight gubernatorial and congressional elections, a cross-endorsement by the Working Families Party could be pivotal for the first time in a high-profile Connecticut race.

The labor-backed party, which is trying to transplant New…

by Mary O’Leary
(New Haven Register)

With so many elections coming down to the wire, particularly the governor’s race and some congressional contests, the Working Families Party thinks it could make the difference in who wins Tuesday.

The party…

by Jon Green
(CTNewsJunkie)

Mid-term elections are often considered a referendum on the party in power.  Most of us agree that ‘hope and change’ has proven easier said than done. On big issues like healthcare and reforming Wall Street,…

by Susan Campbell
(Courant)

I have a theory as to why candidates like The Rent is Too Damn High Party’s Jimmy McMillan stole the show in a recent New York gubernatorial debate — and later got spoofed on “Saturday…

by Jon Green
(Courant Op Ed)

As we reach the end of a bitter and contentious campaign season, political advertisements dominate the airwaves and flood our mailboxes. With the economy still limping along, candidates for all offices and from…

Paul Choiniere
(New London Day)

Those casting votes for Democratic candidates running for the statewide constitutional offices will have two places on the ballot where they can circle the oval — on the Democratic Party line or the Working…

Scott Whipple
The New Britain Herald

Few members of the Working Families Party were around in 1938. That year, Republican candidate for governor, Raymond Baldwin, with 3,046 votes from an underestimated union party, won a squeaker at the polls…