The Wheelhouse

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Are there any lessons we can learn from last night? Probably not. The predicted trends, like “The Trump Effect” didn’t really emerge. The state was split between Republican and Democratic victories.

When people see an election that doesn’t go the way they think it was going to go, their natural reaction is to overcompensate to make sure that doesn’t happen again; we saw that (at minimum) in Greenwich last night. This week on the Wheelhouse, analysis of races from all over the state, and more. 

GUESTS:

• Dan Haar - associate editor and columnist on business and the intersection of politics and economics at Hearst CT Media (@DanHaarColumns)
• Susan Bigelow - Contributor at CT News Junkie (@whateversusan)
• Jonathan L. Wharton - Associate Professor Political Science & Urban Affairs, Southern Connecticut State University

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Listen live Wednesday at 9:00 am

Are there any lessons we can learn from last night? Probably not. The predicted trends, like “The Trump Effect” didn’t really emerge. The state was split between Republican and Democratic victories.

When people see an election that doesn’t go the way they think it was going to go, their natural reaction is to overcompensate to make sure that doesn’t happen again; we saw that (at minimum) in Greenwich last night. This week on the Wheelhouse, analysis of races from all over the state, and more. 

GUESTS:

Dan Haar - associate editor and columnist on business and the intersection of politics and economics at Hearst CT Media (@DanHaarColumns)

Susan Bigelow - Contributor at CT News Junkie (@whateversusan)

Jonathan L. Wharton - Associate Professor Political Science & Urban Affairs, Southern Connecticut State University

Join the controversation on Facebook and Twitter.

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A battle over campaign lawn signs? Dueling opinion pieces about how great or terrible our state is? Big questions about how we’ll keep our population or lose it to those states down south? It sounds like your typical Wednesday in Connecticut. 

But what's typical, really, in this tiny, postage-stamp-sized state where everyone knows everyone else, but we still feel the need to bust ourselves into 169 little enclaves? Where we balance justified pride of place while nursing a sometimes crippling inferiority complex? Where we battle over all the ways we’re losing or failing, when -- if you look around -- you see a state that’s beautiful, diverse and dare I say, even exciting?

This hour, we consider all of these stories in the week’s news, and a lot more. We also look back our conversations here over the years, as it’s John Dankosky's last Wednesday hosting this program.

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A battle over campaign lawn signs? Dueling opinion pieces about how great or terrible our state is? Big questions about how we’ll keep our population or lose it to those states down south? It sounds like your typical Wednesday in Connecticut. 

But what's typical, really, in this tiny, postage-stamp-sized state where everyone knows everyone else, but we still feel the need to bust ourselves into 169 little enclaves? Where we balance justified pride of place while nursing a sometimes crippling inferiority complex? Where we battle over all the ways we’re losing or failing, when -- if you look around -- you see a state that’s beautiful, diverse and dare I say, even exciting?

This hour, we consider all of these stories in the week’s news, and a lot more. We also look back our conversations here over the years, as it’s John Dankosky's last Wednesday hosting this program.

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The language of politics--of America, really--has gotten quite a bit uglier over the last few years. And the last few weeks in Connecticut are a case in point. Female political leaders from both major parties faced online insults and threats, and prompted a call from the governor and others for a more civil tone.

If that was the only hateful speech of the week, it’d be enough, but we have a republican party leader saying that a Donald Trump re-election would mean “riots will begin in liberal cities” and “blood will be spilled.”  Plus, we'll talk about how two UConn students were arrested this week for shouting racial slurs, caught on camera, and we'll discuss the trends shown by the latest Quinnpiac poll on impeachment. 

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The language of politics--of America, really--has gotten quite a bit uglier over the last few years. And the last few weeks in Connecticut are a case in point. Female political leaders from both major parties faced online insults and threats, and prompted a call from the governor and others for a more civil tone.

If that was the only hateful speech of the week, it’d be enough, but we have a republican party leader saying that a Donald Trump re-election would mean “riots will begin in liberal cities” and “blood will be spilled.”  Plus, we'll talk about how two UConn students were arrested this week for shouting racial slurs, caught on camera, and we'll discuss the trends shown by the latest Quinnpiac poll on impeachment. 

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Last night’s 12-person Democratic presidential debate proved a few things:

1. That’s too many people on stage.
2. Elizabeth Warren has become both the front-runner and the target of most of her colleagues.
3. Warren is proving to be a bit harder to attack than former front-runner, Joe Biden.

This hour, we consider what happened on stage in Ohio, amid an impeachment inquiry and worsening situation in Syria. We also look at how Democrats are seemingly all in agreement on one thing: gun control.

Also, state Democrats and Republicans are exchanging words over social media posts and a controversial speaker, but they may be talking a bit more productively over the issue of tolls.

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Last night’s 12-person Democratic presidential debate proved a few things:

1. That’s too many people on stage.

2. Elizabeth Warren has become both the front-runner and the target of most of her colleagues.

3. Warren is proving to be a bit harder to attack than former front-runner, Joe Biden.

This hour, we consider what happened on stage in Ohio, amid an impeachment inquiry and worsening situation in Syria. We also look at how Democrats are seemingly all in agreement on one thing: gun control.

Also, state Democrats and Republicans are exchanging words over social media posts and a controversial speaker, but they may be talking a bit more productively over the issue of tolls.

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The House of Representatives is conducting an impeachment inquiry into President Trump for his call for an investigation of Joe Biden’s son by the Ukranian government; Trump now says he and his White House won’t cooperate with what it’s calling an illegitimate effort “to overturn the results of the 2016 election” - an obstruction that the House might use to consider another article of impeachment. 

Meanwhile Americans are increasingly in favor of the impeachment investigation and down on Trump. But not all Americans. He still has sky-high approval ratings with Republicans, including a small group of young black Republicans who recently met with Trump.

This week, we hear the latest from Washington, and from Bridgeport, where testimony continues this week in a lawsuit that seeks to overturn the results of Bridgeport’s primary election for mayor.

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The House of Representatives is conducting an impeachment inquiry into President Trump for his call for an investigation of Joe Biden’s son by the Ukranian government; Trump now says he and his White House won’t cooperate with what it’s calling an illegitimate effort “to overturn the results of the 2016 election” - an obstruction that the House might use to consider another article of impeachment. 

Meanwhile Americans are increasingly in favor of the impeachment investigation and down on Trump. But not all Americans. He still has sky-high approval ratings with Republicans, including a small group of young black Republicans who recently met with Trump.

This week, we hear the latest from Washington, and from Bridgeport, where testimony continues this week in a lawsuit that seeks to overturn the results of Bridgeport’s primary election for mayor.

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