It doesn’t look good for Chris Dodd. He’s not getting the home state discount, er boost in numbers. The courant reports:

A new Quinnipiac poll released today showed that he’s only the fifth most popular Democratic presidential choice among the party’s state voters. Dodd got 6 percent in the survey, far behind front runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, who polled 28 percent.

Trailing the New York senator were Illinois Sen. Barack Obama at 20 percent, former Vice President Al Gore, who has not declared his candidacy, at 13 percent, and 2004 vice presidential nominee John Edwards, at 8 percent.

Al Gore, who has not announced he’s running, is pulling 13%. Not much satisfaction out there in Democratic voter land. THe raw numbers are linked here.. But here’s the key take away:

• More Registered Democratic women support Hillary than men 34 to 20, next leading Democrat Obama was even.
• More Registered Republican man support Giuliani than women 40 to 33, next leading Republican McCain was near even 16 men 15 women
• Giuliani beats Hillary 48 -42 and Obama 44-42 and Gore 45-42

My conclusion is that Connecticut is a pretty conservative state. But not that conservative. The Independents like Giuliani but when the Republican candidate is someone else, they prefer the Democratic candidates. Despite this, the best primary campaign ad to date belongs to Bill Richardson. I posted it below:

I will have to investigate adding some polls to the site.

source: Courant, Dodd Polls Poorly In Connecticut, By DAVID LIGHTMAN, May 10, 2007