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...this has accrued to support a general perception that Dodd, who's serving his fifth term in the Senate, "has kind of lost touch with voters," says Jennifer Duffy, who tracks Senate races for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report and rates Dodd among the most vulnerable Democrats up for re-election...
...Dodd's aides point to Obama's dominant 61% victory in Connecticut in an election that saw the defeat of the state's (and New England's) lone House Republican, Chris Shays. "Connecticut is trending blue. Even if Dodd only got 70% of Obama's voters, he'd still easily win," says one adviser. "His potential opponent Rob Simmons couldn't even hold Connecticut's Second District - how is he going to win statewide...
...Still, the double distraction of a looming re-election battle and the ongoing health-care talks has some worried that Dodd might be neglecting the Senate Banking Committee at a crucial time, or at least be stretched too thin. "Health care is yet another distraction on the list of things that have distracted Dodd from his [Banking] Committee work," says one Republican Senator who has served with Dodd on the committee. "Legislation to regulate the insurance industry and to crack down on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac languished before the committee while he was on the campaign trail. Then Countrywide...
...Lobbyists from a variety of businesses and groups that work with the Senate Banking Committee have expressed concern about Dodd's small, overburdened staff. For example, the Senator has left vacant the top staff position on the committee since his committee director, Shawn Maher, left in December to work for the Obama Administration. "I guess it's hard to find staff. Would you want to go work for someone who might lose his job in two years?" says one financial executive who deals with the committee. "He doesn't have a lot of staff. How he gets work done, that...
...this point Dodd says he too is frustrated in waiting for responses from the leadership on requests for more staff. "We're jammed," he says. "I think we'll need some more people, and we're bringing more people on ... I'm really exhausted. It's overwhelming the amount of work and trying to stay on top of it and listening to people about their ideas and trying to figure out what the solutions are." (See the top 10 unfortunate political one-liners...