At the end of my tenure on this committee, I want it to be said that the safety and soundness of our financial institutions was not weakened on my watch
-Chris Dodd, February 15, 2007
(H/T Ironman, who notes that the Dow has fallen nearly in half since that date).
Senator Dodd has a lot to answer for and it looks like Connecticut voters are turning on him, as a new Quinnipiac poll out this morning shows he would narrowly trail moderate Republican former Congressman Rob Simmons 43-42 if the election were held today. (H/T) Simmons has been publicly mulling a run, as has longtime business pundit Larry Kudlow. The underlying numbers don’t look promising for an incumbent this far from the start of campaigning:
