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POLITICAL INSIDER: McMahon avoids Social Security
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. - Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon is campaigning on a message that Washington must address the mounting debt and growing deficit.
Senate candidate says Obama short of expectations
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. - Senate Republican candidate Linda McMahon on Thursday described President Barack Obama as falling "far short" of the high expectations that attended his election, criticizing the chief executive as he lent Democratic rival Richard Blumenthal some campaign help.

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. - The admission by Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal - one of Connecticut's most well-known politicians - that he "misspoke" when he claimed he served in Vietnam has bolstered Republican hopes they could capture a seat once seen as a lock for Democrats.

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. - Trying to defuse a crisis that could give the GOP a powerful opening, Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal said Tuesday that he "misspoke" in claiming more than once that he served in Vietnam, and he dismissed the furor as a matter of "a few misplaced words." At a news conference where he surrounded himself with veterans, the Connecticut attorney general and far-and-away front-runner to replace retiring Democrat Christopher Dodd said he meant to say he served "during" Vietnam instead of "in" Vietnam.

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. - Trying to defuse a crisis that could give the GOP a powerful opening, Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal said Tuesday that he "misspoke" in claiming more than once that he served in Vietnam, and he dismissed the furor as a matter of "a few misplaced words." At a news conference where he surrounded himself with veterans, the Connecticut attorney general and far-and-away front-runner to replace retiring Democrat Christopher Dodd said he meant to say he served "during" Vietnam instead of "in" Vietnam.
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