Day68 Friday 11/05/10

ran 2.6 miles

• Connecticut was the fifth state to join the union on January 9, 1788, seven days after Georgia and one month before Massachusetts.

• Population, as of 2009, is 3,518,288.

• Senators are Joe Lieberman (D) and Richard Blumenthal (D).

• Representatives are John Larson (D), Joe Courtney (D), Rosa DeLauro (D), Jim Himes (D), and Christopher Murphy (D).

• Connecticut holds seven electoral votes. Historically, the state has voted democratic the last four elections, the prior five were won by republicans, with democrats taking the three before that, indicating that the state seems to have a delicate and malleable past and future, which is just intangible enough to not quite designate it as a “Swing state”.

On a separate note, if you divide $200,000,000 of taxpayer money spent everyday on the next ten days of Barack Obama’s excursion to India (and an elaborate tour of Asia) by the frustration America feels with its government it equals inexcusability.

I cannot believe the audacious heights of vanity, in the clouds, which this man’s head floats abroad from all reality. His disregard for what makes this country go around filters so much opportunity from its own pureness.

1,900 miles to go.