Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here. Leading Off: • CT-Gov: Whoa, this is just nuts. Tom Foley, the frontrunner for the GOP gubernatorial nomination in Connecticut, decided to make a campaign stop at a paper goods plants whose owners had just decided to shutter it, in theory because he wanted to blame the closure on the policies of Democratic Gov.