Talk about
every vote counting.
A roller-coaster recount that uncovered vote-counting flaws in several Connecticut towns gave Democrat Joe Courtney a narrow victory over three-term Republican Rep. Rob Simmons on Tuesday.
Courtney won by 91 votes instead of the 167-vote margin counted on election night, according to results tabulated by 65 town clerks and reported to The Associated Press. Nearly 250,000 votes were cast.
Chris Shays in CT-04 is the last Republican congressman in all of New England.
He can switch parties if he wants to survive. Because otherwise, we're taking him out in 2008. And he won't have Joe Lieberman helping him with GOTV.