Hurricane Sandy proves that yes, the Connecticut Senate race can get nastier

Linda McMahon, who would never, ever, tell a lie. One Connecticut voter is not amused by the latest "outreach" effort by Republicans on behalf of Linda McMahon in that state's senate race. The voter, "Lisa," got a phone call on Sunday afternoon, in the middle of her disaster preparations, from a Republican polling firm in New York called Central Research.

'They asked all the standard questions. 'Are you a man or woman?' 'How old?' Blah, blah, blah. Then they got to these really weird questions. 'If I told you that Chris Murphy accepted 'x' amount of money from Connecticut Light & Power and did not hold them accountable in the last power outage, would you be more likely/less likely to vote for Murphy?'' [...]

'I was like, 'I'm sorry, what?!?!'' Lisa said. 'And there were a few other questions like that ' I'm not stupid. They're not asking that question on the eve of the hurricane for nothing. And it's so offensive. I don't agree with their statement (and) all they're doing is fishing for a way to use this hurricane to political advantage. That's just wrong.'

Ah, stay classy, Republicans. Just like Mitt Romney. You can't let a thing like a natural disaster happen without wringing the maximum crass political benefit out of it.

The McMahon campaign insists that it has nothing to do with the calls. Which is totally believable.