CHRIS DODD UPDATE: Hartford Courant: Mortgaging His Future: “Five-term U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd has some thinking to do. Poll numbers are dropping and potential Republican opponents are circling like sharks in the water, sensing an opportunity to end the political career of Connecticut’s tarnished Democratic icon. . . . But the heaviest anchor around his neck is the controversy over the two mortgages he refinanced in 2003 at favorable terms with now-defunct Countrywide Financial. On Feb. 2, he let some reporters see the documents and announced he was refinancing again through a third party to remove the Countrywide taint. It seems a case of too little, too late. Quinnipiac’s latest polling yielded the senator’s worst results ever.”