Bumper Sticker in Madison: "Don't Blame Me I Voted for BOB”

MADISON, CT - Madison is the hometown of Bob Stefanowski so perhaps it shouldn't come as a surprise that several bumper stickers have been spotted around town that read: "Don't blame me I voted for BOB."

The sarcastic reference alludes to the few early polls that so far show that Connecticut residents aren't in love with their new governor - Ned Lamont.

A recent poll released by Sacred Heart University’s Institute for Public Policy and the Hartford Courant found 40% of 1,000 Connecticut residents surveyed disapprove of the way Lamont is handling his job.

The poll found 24.6% approve of how he’s handling the job, while 35.4% were unsure.

What's seen by friend and foe alike of the governor who has been in office for six months as the signature reason for his shaky start with those being polls is his stance on tolls.

The poll results released found 59% of residents surveyed oppose electronic tolls. That’s the same amount of opposition found in earlier polls.

Lamont, during his campaign against Stefanowski, said he only supported tolls for tractor-trailers. But after winning the election against Stefanowski, who repeatedly said he was opposed to any kind of tolling, Lamont changed his mind, stating attorneys told him that truck-only tolling likely could only be done on certain bridges to generate revenue for their repair.

He then got behind a plan to tolls all cars and trucks, both in and out of state, if it includes a discount for Connecticut drivers or those who frequently travel the tolled highways.

His team's official position on polls is that he is taking stances - whether it be on tolls or anything else - that will put the state on the right course not to be popular.

The good news is that Lamont would have to drop even further in the polls to touch his predecessor, Dan Malloy, who was known for being the least popular governor in the country during much of his tenure - again, at least according to the pollsters.

Getting back to Madison, in the 2018 election, Stefanowski won his hometown by about 700 votes over Lamont and other candidates for governor - polling about 52 percent of the vote.

That wasn’t enough though as statewide Lamont won a close, few percentage point victory.