When it sucks to be Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT)
While pork is the “Other White Meat,” Sen. Dodd is Connecticut’s “other” Senator, the opposite of Sen. Joe Lieberman.
Now, Dodd has had some problems. And his poll numbers are neck and neck with Congress’s approval ratings and numbers that our President is working hard to attain. So, what has all of that meant?
It means that while he’s facing a re-election bid in the “bloodbath-to-happen-like-1994” election of 2010, he’s raised a not-amazing figure of around $600,000 for that effort (Our own abysmal failure of a senator, Patty Murray, has banked $5 million, and she doesn’t even have an announced opponent).
Now, it’s not the relatively paltry figure of $600,000 that’s at issue with this post.
The issue?
Of that figure, Dodd has raised, from his own state….
$4,250.
ALL of the rest of it is from 400 out-of-state donors.