Visconti for Congress

60 PERCENT OF THE 1ST DISTRICT VOTERS ARE NOT DEMOCRATS

As I campaign throughout Connecticut's First Congressional District I am often asked about the myth that the First District is so overwhelmingly Democratic that it is impossible for any other party to win. I respond with facts: voter registration statistics.

There are approximately 389,000 registered voters in the First Congressional District – Independent voters rule with 161,000 registered voters and when combined with the 72,000 active Republicans we have an insurmountable 233,000 potential votes that far outnumber registered Democrats' 156,000.

In the last district election 272,000 votes were cast in the 1st District. After assigning a 7 percent increase in voter turnout to account for population increases and interest in the presidential race, we will need approximately146,000 votes to take the district.

We need 70 percent of likely GOP voters to vote for me, Joe Visconti. 50,400 votes. Next we need to convince an even half of the independent voters that it really is time to throw out career politicians like John Larson from Congress which will net 80,663 votes. Finally we need only 10 percent of Dems who are fed up with their Party and John Larson to cap the drive, 15,600 votes. Total 146,663 We win!

It can be done! But we need your help. We must get our message across to all voters! Your donation to Visconti for Congress is vital to help us communicate with district voters.

Please visit www.ViscontiforCongress.com and donate, we can’t win without your donations and vote.

The current Congress has been so steeped in failure that the only question raised any longer about its performance is whether this august body can drop any lower. The current poll shows that 86 percent of Americans see this Congress as a total failure, and other polls have that number over 90 percent.

This is beyond unacceptable. This is a clear sign that voters want the incumbents out!

Even with poll numbers this low, Democratic leaders including Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and John Larson cling to their archaic beliefs that Americans prefer to pay extraordinarily high prices for gasoline, heating fuel, and electricity rather than engage in an intelligent, comprehensive energy policy.

Clean and safe drilling, clean and safe nuclear, and a concerted effort to develop alternative energy sources can bring prices down immediately, and get our country moving down the road to energy independence.

But instead, the Democrat-controlled Congress proposes a 50 percent increase in federal gasoline taxes! I agree that this is the time for change, and the first thing that we need to change is the membership of Congress.