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...looking increasingly vulnerable. The silver-haired father of two young girls is facing his toughest re-election fight ever, and he doesn't even have an opponent yet. (CNBC pundit Larry Kudlow and former GOP Representative Rob Simmons have both expressed interest in running.) In a January Quinnipiac poll, 51% of Connecticut voters said they would not vote for Dodd in 2010. "It's the subject matter - people are watching their tax dollars go into institutions and they wonder when it's going to get better and they wonder where it's going," Dodd says. "I don't find people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Connecticut's Chris Dodd Faces a Backyard Rebellion | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...mistake of not addressing it earlier," Dodd concedes. Still, he will not allow reporters to deeply examine the "hundreds of pages" of mortgage documents, saying, "No one has ever showed as much as we have." But the scandal has left a bad taste with Connecticut voters; in the Quinnipiac poll, 56% said the Countrywide connection made them less likely to vote for Dodd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Connecticut's Chris Dodd Faces a Backyard Rebellion | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...Iowa in 2007 to lay the groundwork for what would end up a short-lived presidential campaign didn't endear him to his constituents either. "How can he identify himself as D-Conn. when he lives in Iowa?" asked a Connecticut Post editorial at the time. In the Quinnipiac poll, Dodd's approval ratings came in at a dismal 41%; that makes him even less popular than Joe Lieberman, the independent junior Senator who left the Democratic Party after losing his primary race and then crossed what was left of his party lines to endorse John McCain for President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Connecticut's Chris Dodd Faces a Backyard Rebellion | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...Rick Santorum • failure of is really really REALLY hoped for by Rush Limbaugh • failure of to name Howard Dean as Secretary of Health and Human Services disappoints Howard Dean • graying of • medical marijuana distributors will not be raided by federal government headed by • poll reveals that "African Americans are significantly less likely than whites" to be amused by jokes about race of • predecessor of continues to be properly dissed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

Palin, Gov. Sarah • a mere 13% of the vote - the exact same amount won by Ron Paul - is won by in Conservative Political Action Conference presidential straw poll (and if these folks don't want her, who does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

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