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12. Be careful about what you think the take aways from those three states are
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 12:51 PM
Nov 2014

Last edited Wed Nov 5, 2014, 02:48 PM - Edit history (1)

The NY race was never in question, NYC and it's suburbs are the tail that wags the dog. Upstate NY is red outside of some of the cities.

The reason CO race is even close is probably due to the gun control laws that were passed, keep in mind the Democrats in CO lost control of the state senate.

As for the CT race, Visconti ran mostly on repealing the gun control measures that CT passed, if his supporters had used their brains just a little and switched their support to Foley when Visconti dropped out, Foley would have given his acceptance speech already. Per the link there are only 369 votes between Malloy & Foley and 21.3 % of the precincts still out

http://elections.courant.com/results/national/?st=CT

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