Connecticut Mirror co-founder and Capitol bureau chief Mark Pazniokas walks voters through specific candidates and races, including some familiar names who might be sweating the election results.
Ceci Maher was not surprised to find one freshly transplanted New Yorker after another as she campaigned door to door on a tree-lined street leading up a hill away from the Saugatuck River in Westport.
It's been a trend.
“Brooklyn, mostly,” Maher said.
Maher is a Democrat running for the open seat in the 26th Senate District in Fairfield County, a region that has been shifting from Republican to Democratic for more than a decade, a consequence of demographic and political change.
It’s an imperfect measure, to be sure. Political advantages wax and wane, pushed by national political currents, but also offset by the relative strengths and weaknesses of candidates.