Conn. poll shows that liars can prosper

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Quinnipiac finds Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, D, with a 25-point lead in his state’s open Senate race. The poll comes after his lies about serving in Vietnam were reported:

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal leads former wrestling executive Linda McMahon 56 – 31 percent in the U.S. Senate race and tops the Republican candidate by large margins on every character measure, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
This compares to a 61 – 28 percent Blumenthal lead over McMahon in a March 17 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University.

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