So, now that we're likely to knock out Sununu, is it time to concentrate on the last Republican member of congress in the state (Gregg)?
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So, now that we're likely to knock out Sununu, is it time to concentrate on the last Republican member of congress in the state (Gregg)?
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Let’s not focus on Gregg until the job is actually done with Sununu. The days of across the board GOP landslides may be gone forever, but New Hampshire still isn’t anywhere near as blue as any of its neighbors and we can’t take Shaheen for granted no matter how good her numbers look at the moment. We also really have to work on getting Carol Shea-Porter re-elected. There are an awful lot of Reagan Democrats in Manchester (my hometown BTW) who never returned to the Dems, and I’m concerned about how many of them CSP can attract when her name has become synonymous with protest votes against the war and not much else. (I’m not saying she deserves that distinction, but she’s got it right or wrong.)
to have Clinton/Obama/Edwards, Lynch and Shaheen, all winning comfortably directly above her (Shea-Porter) on the ballot.
. . . is that she ran an over-cautious campaign the last time around. I know I’m starting to sound like a broken record on this, but I really, REALLY hope she has learned from 2002 . . . and the reason for my lingering worry is the fact that, in 2004, she was one of the Kerryites who advocated that Kerry remain silent during the Swift Boat attacks. That over-cautious, hand-wringing move pretty much cost Kerry the election. In order to win this race, we cannot have mistakes like that being made. Shaheen will be an excellent senator, but in order to get there, she has to run a campaign with serious chutzpah!
she needs to tie herself to Shaheen and Lynch and she will win.