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It’s getting close to the time when incumbent legislators have to make decisions about whether they will run again. Chris Dodd and Evan Bayh chose to retire rather than face a hostile electorate, and incumbent state senate Democrats have to be thinking about doing the same thing.
REPUBLICANS: My basic theory is that if an incumbent [...]

Here’s the promo for NHPR’s Monday edition of “The Exchange” with Laura Knoy, 89.1 FM starting at 9:05 a.m.:  Are Republicans on the Road to Revival?  The Grand Old Party has notched a string of special election victories lately…in Governor’s races in Virginia and New Jersey and in for the Senate seat in Massachusetts.  We’ll [...]

The UL’s Drew Clineattended Carol Shea-Porter’s (rare) town hall meeting in Manchester on Saturday.  Amid the usual blaming of Bush for today’s 10% unemployment rate (wow, that stimulus CSP voted for really worked), soak-the-rich class warfare, and disingenuous stated reasons why CSP can’t support the senate version of the health care overhaul (she’s really against [...]

The Telegraph’s list includes NH’s own Sen. Judd Gregg at #73, on a list that includes just 8 of the 40 GOP senators. You can catch #9 (Rep. Paul Ryan) in NH next month on behalf of the NH GOP, and #19 (Newt) and #21 (Breitbart) will be here in two weeks on behalf of [...]

Congressional Quarterly reported today that a new joint fundraising committee has been established to assist seven GOP senate candidates around the country, including Kelly Ayotte:
U.S. Senate Victory Committee was organized this week as a joint fundraising committee that will distribute the funds to the seven Republicans who were identified on Federal Election Commission paperwork as [...]

The new Rasmussen survey out today has Paul Hodes getting no more than 45% of the vote against any of the Republicans. The poll is especially good for Kelly Ayotte, who leads Hodes, 49-40 and has a sparkling 23/4 favorable/unfavorable rating; but it’s also good news for the lesser-known Bill Binnie (trails Hodes, 43-37) and [...]

Sen. Shaheen, the deciding vote in favor of big-government health care, will be on NHPR’s “The Exchange” on Wednesday morning at 9:05 a.m., 89.1 FM. Will she defend the Cornhusker Kickback, Louisiana Purchase, and the other vote-buying that took place to get the bill through? How much more state spending will the bill’s changes to [...]

Here’s a snip from Politico’s write up on “Game Change,” the new book by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann:

After Billy Shaheen, Clinton’s New Hew Hampshire campaign chairmen and the husband of Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, told the Washington Post that Obama’s youthful drug use made him unelectable, Clinton initially cheered him on and encouraged her staff [...]

As many on the right celebrate the political demise of Sen. Chris Dodd (although it comes a year too early; the GOP’s odds of winning this seat just went down now that the Dems can run someone else), it is worth thinking about how it was Dodd’s ill-fated run for president that sent his career into [...]

A member of the RNC from Indiana has proposed a 10-point purity test that would prohibit Republican candidates from receiving party funding if they don’t score at least 7 out of 10.
Fortunately none of NH’s three RNC members are on the original list of ten co-sponsors of this resolution, and I hope all of them will oppose [...]