The Hartford Courant addresses the hotly contested Connecticut Senate race, in particular the enormous amount of money [1] both Sen. Joe Lieberman and Ned Lamont are putting into the race, and asks whether public financing would be a fairer option.

Fortunately for Connecticut, all the Senate candidates have taken the [1] Voters First Pledge to support public financing of campaigns.  As the editorial rightly notes, this kind of campaign spending is ludicrous and current regulations don't do enough to fix it - whoever Connecticut sends to Congress in November, that candidate will have made a promise to fight for real change.