CHRIS DODD UPDATE: Connecticut Post: Dodd Could Use A Good Challenge.

It’s still early to be talking about all of this, but Dodd should have to fight for his nomination this time around, and Pearson could make a good challenger. For one thing, he would represent a major change for people in this part of the state, especially lower Fairfield County, who don’t see much of Mr. Dodd.

Dodd is certainly vulnerable at the moment. Were this a “normal” year, we’d perhaps counsel Pearson to stick to his law practice. He served one term as Greenwich first selectman in the mid-1980s, while Dodd is a five-term United States senator. But Dodd’s troubles of late — an unsettling relationship with Countrywide Financial Corp., a part in the American International Group bonuses saga, and status as a long-term member of the Senate Banking Committee during an era of abuse and meltdown — have caused his approval rating with constituents to sink to a drastically low 33 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released earlier this month.

And state Democrats might consider another finding in the poll: that if elections were held today, Dodd would lose to either of his two declared Republican challengers — former U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons and state Sen. Sam Caligiuri.

Read the whole thing. And they left out the Irish “cottage” affair.