Lost amid the bad news that today's Q poll brought for Richard Blumenthal is the specter of equally bad news for the state's Democratic congressional delegation.
Republicans are clearly hoping that President Obama's negative numbers -- 52 percent of those surveyed said they disapprove of the way Obama has handled his job as president -- will spill over to the members of Congress who have embraced his agenda.
"If President Obama's approval is this bad statewide, what does it look like in western Connecticut?'' asked Greg Blair, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee. "In a midterm election that's a referendum on the President's performance, these numbers should be alarming for Jim Himes and Chris Murphy."
The Q poll doesn't generally track Congressional contests in the state so Obama's numbers are the closest we'll get to gauging support for the overall Democratic agenda. Especially troubling for the Democrats is the fact that 58 percent of the all-important block of unaffiliated voters disapprove of the president's job performance.
The President, who is coming to the state on Thursday to raise money for the Democratic National Committee, "apears to be a drag on [Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Richard] Blumenthal, even in Connecticut, where the President's job approval rating is a negative 45 - 52 percent,'' Q poll director Doug Schwartz said.
Will the same hold true for the Congressional incumbents? The GOP appears to be banking on it.