ELECTION RESULTS IN CONNECTICUT

Stamford, Connecticut has its first Republican mayor in 20 years. This may be bad news for Chris Dodd's reelection next year.

UPDATE: Mike Pavia, the Republican candidate, won by a 55-44 percent margin. Stamford is Connecticut's fourth largest city.

Stamford CT Advocate headline: "Mayor Pavia: Republicans break stranglehold on city's top office" (The newspaper had endorsed the Democrat. A reason cited was his "26 years spent on the Board of Representatives.") The newspaper is a Hearst paper, managed by, according to the Wikipedia entry, MediaNews Group (Denver Post). The Hearst site, however, says that the paper shares its editor and publisher with the Greenwich Time. (Republicans won big in Greenwich, too, where the paper had endorsed the Democrat candidate for Tax Collector.) The Advocate circulation is 23,088 copies, which is not a very high penetration rate. (Why that's important.)

Stamford is 4th largest city in Connecticut with a population of 118,475. "One out of three residents are foreign born. A language other than English is spoken at home by 40% of the population." Party registration is strongly Democrat. (Source Wikipedia entry)

Elsewhere, Democrats are crowing about the election victory of New Haven mayor April Capone Almon. Almon was arrested in July by her own town's police department for interfering with a police officer who was ticketing cars at a local beach. She's scheduled to appear in court on Nov. 18.