Clinton in Trouble in Connecticut?

[BeyondGeography]

Developments today in the capital of quirky, Connecticut. It's the state that Bill Clinton lost to Jerry Brown in 1992. It gave John McCain his only closed primary victory eight years ago when the Arizona insurgent carried the hometown of the Bushes, tony Greenwich.

Hillary Clinton enjoyed a 14 point lead over Barack Obama 12 days ago, according to a Hartford Courant poll. A survey released today by WTNH (an ABC affiliate) finds Clinton has fallen 4 points behind the Illinois senator in the run-up to Tuesday's primary.

Local Clinton boosters are starting to think that poll is a glimpse of a campaign in quick decline. The national campaign may know it, too. Clinton's Connecticut operation has been told to take the fight to Obama on healthcare. Obama, they fear, is chipping away at Clinton's advantage on an issue she's owned the trade mark on, for good or ill, for 15 years.

State Democrats supporting Clinton, with political careers of their own; don't want to fire broadsides at a surging Obama. There are reports that poobahs in the Clinton campaign are getting that distinct tone of exasperation and anxiety that they reserve for the troops in the hinterlands that the rest of us know as primary states.

A keen student of polls and Democratic primary politics sees hints that Clinton may be in a freefall. A rumored endorsement of Obama by veteran Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro of New Haven will garner a couple of days of headlines and party chatter. DeLauro is a close friend and advisor to Senator Chris Dodd. He's not endorsed a candidate and is thought to be miffed at his treatment by Bill Clinton during Dodd's concluded presidential campaign.

http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2008/02/developments_today_in_the_capi.html

[John Q. Citizen]

1. I have a sense that Obama is surging. Gallop had him 3 points behind Clinton nationally.

That amazing if true.

[aquart]

2. They elected Lieberman.