R.I.P. the Curtain and Lever

Little old CT steals some national election coverage again when we went for for Obama yesterday over Hillary.

The win, 51% to 47%, was close and even closer in Stamford where Obama edged Clinton by 1% percent, a mere 28 votes! You can check out all the CT town by town results listed here & mapped here.

I’m not surprised by an Obama win; we are a people with our Nutmegs in a twist. We are the state that threw out Rob Simmons and Nancy Johnson, two long serving Republican Congressmen, for the fresh Democratic faces of Chris Murphy and Joe Courtney. We are the state that dumped Joe Lieberman off the Democratic ticket for Ned Lamont. Even though Lieberman finally found that ever elusive “Joementum” he had been talking about (mostly in the form of strong Republican support) and beat Lamont in the general, the electorate here is definitely feeling some buyers remorse.

The national media seemed to have us misunderstood. Connecticut was “Hillary’s backyard”. Well CT looked around and didn’t see Buddy the Dog taking a leak on the Charter Oak and decided to show them otherwise. The case can be made that Fairfield County is the backyard of New York City, but we don’t feel any overwhelming connection to Chappaqua. That is a mistake that only someone looking at us on a map can make.

Connecticut is a hard state to pin down. We are the Tri-State, but we are New England. We’re celebrating the Giants win and sulking over the Patriots loss. Mark Twain wrote “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” and Who’s the Boss took place here. Think twice Chris Matthews before you declare us serfs of Westchester County again.