Today’s Tuesday and that means voting. Colorado, Connecticut and Minnesota are holding primaries and Georgia’s GOP gubernatorial races holds a run off. By tonight we’ll know if another incumbent scalp, that of Colorado’s Michael Bennet, has been claimed or if the throw-the-bums-out mentality this cycle is abating somewhat. Here’s a primer on today’s fun from [...]
About a week ago, Connecticut Attorney General/U.S. Senate Candidate Richard Blumenthal gathered a bunch of veterans around him to rebut suggestions that he had intentionally misled people about his Vietnam service. He admitted to using the phrase “in Vietnam” instead of “during Vietnam,” but urged on by the guttural objections of the men around him [...]
From TIME’s Pentagon Correspondent, Mark Thompson, who also happens to hail from the Nutmeg State: Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut Democrat seeking to succeed Christopher Dodd in the U.S. Senate, did a lot more fighting over Vietnam Tuesday than he ever did inside the country. That’s because, despite his claims to the contrary, he never actually [...]
