June 14, 2026
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From The Day by way of Third Party and Independent Daily:
Scott Deshefy, the Green Party candidate running for Congress in the 2nd District, issued a statement on Wednesday criticizing the district’s representative, Democrat Joe Courtney, for voting against a resolution to pull American troops out of Pakistan.…
Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch:
The Green Party of Connecticut announced today that Don Alexander is running for State Representative, House District 64 (Torrington, Sharon, Cornwall, Goshen, and Salisbury) this fall.…
Earlier this month Connecticut Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz began an aggressive propaganda campaign instructing voters to register with the Democratic and Republican parties ahead of the state’s August 10th primary elections.
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The Working Families Party has been circulating a petition to place its statewide nominees on the Connecticut ballot, and has over 9,000 signatures.…
Independents are the largest bloc of registered voters in Connecticut. According to Pollster.com, independents account for 42.5% of registered voters in the state, with only 36.8% registered Democrat and 20% registered Republican.
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U.S. Senate Candidate John Mertens charged the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute with misleading voters and misrepresenting the results in their recent survey.
In the most recent Q-Poll, voters were asked “If the 2010 election for United States Senator were being held today, and the candidates were Richard Blumenthal the Democrat and Linda McMahon the Republican, for whom would you vote?”…
Cross-posted from Poli-Tea:
Connecticut’s primary elections are scheduled for August 10, 2010. If recent voter registration trends in the state hold, unaffiliated voters will soon outnumber registered Democrats and Republicans combined.…
Socialist Action has nominated a candidate for U.S. House in Connecticut’s First District, and is petitioning to place him on the ballot.…
The Hartford Courant, a newspaper based in Connecticut, published a lengthy profile of the four Connecticut Green Party candidates who are running in 2010.
The Connecticut Green Party is running four candidates for statewide seats and seats in the General Assembly.
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