CT Democrats targeting open Republican municipal seats

CT Democrats targeting open Republican municipal seats

In 2012, Barack Obama crushed Mitt Romney in the gritty Connecticut city of New Britain, an expected result given the 5-1 advantage Democrats then enjoyed in voter registration. But the next year, a 26-year-old Republican woman named Erin Stewart was elected mayor. It was the start of a 12-year run for Stewart. She has been reelected every two years, the beneficiary of her own brand of fusion politics, an aversion to polarizing national issues, …