UNBELIEVABLE – AT 10:09 A.M. ET:  I guess this is what happens when a "sophisticated" state makes its choices.  Despite outrageous faking of his military record, Connecticut's Democratic attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, seems to have a lock on the state's Senate race.  Scott Rasmussen reports:

Democrat Richard Blumenthal apparently has weathered charges that he exaggerated his military service in Vietnam for years and is running as strongly as ever against both his Republican challengers in Connecticut’s race for the U.S. Senate.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Connecticut finds Blumenthal with 56% support versus 33% for Linda McMahon, the officially endorsed GOP candidate. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and seven percent (7%) are undecided. McMahon has come under criticism recently as people have focused on her role in World Wresting Entertainment, a corporation that one conservative pundit compares to the Gulf oil spill as “a relentless gusher of pollution."

So, a man who said he served in Vietnam and didn't is considered entirely acceptable by the upscale Democratic voters of Connecticut.  After all, what's a little fibbing about a war we were all against, right dearies?

At the same time, we have to grit our teeth.  Blumenthal only stands at 55%.  He's beatable.  But it's pretty clear that Linda McMahon is not the candidate to do it.  That WWF background pulls her down.  In a Democratic state, the GOP needed a first-class candidate with a pristine reputation, and it hasn't got that candidate.  Her entire appeal to the party, apparently, is that she can finance her own campaign.

The current figures put the race back where it has been for most of the year, a likely Democratic victory in a challenging year for the Democratic Party.

COMMENT:  Unless something else comes out about Blumenthal, he'll probably be elected in this very blue state.  Then he'll present himself to the United States Senate as a man who faked his military record.  Very impressive.  There are still parts of the country where such things matter.

June 3, 2010