How’s your husband and the horse business? Yesterday, the President’s visit to Portsmouth gave him an opportunity to re-connect with Jackie, where he showed his concern for small business owners like her and her husband Bruce. In July 2007, Jackie was one of the future President’s early endorsers in the First-in-the-Nation primary. From the release [...]
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James O’Keefe Targets N.H. Primary
The New Hampshire primary is the latest target of James O’Keefe, the infamous right-wing videographer whose video stings include staged encounters with ACORN, Planned Parenthood and NPR. The actors in O’Keefe’s latest escapade requested — and received — ballots yesterday using the names of registered voters who died in the last three months. In one [...]
A Vague Feeling Is Haunting Me Today
By susaninrindge on January 12, 2012 in
Tags: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, NH Primary, Republican Primary
I’ve been trying to put my finger on just why I’ve been feeling this psychic nausea all day today. Surely I was expecting Romney to win. I had over-estimated Huntsman because he seemed so much more human than Romney. I was sure the voters would see him as just that and vote for him over [...]
Primary Highlights Collapse of Tea Party, Rise of Occupy
The Washington Post documents the dramatic fall in support for the tea party movement among New Hampshire voters. An NBC News/Marist poll released late Friday showed that for the first time, 53 percent of likely Republican primary voters said they are not supporters of the tea party, while 40 percent said they are supporters and seven percent [...]
None of the Above
My latest letter to the editor published this past Tuesday in the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript. Please, all you Blue folks, go vote and take a Democratic ballot on Tuesday.———- On January 10, I’m voting None of the Above. It’s my way of saying that none of the Republican candidates has any real solutions to the most [...]
New Hampshire Primary Mythbusters
So UNH, paired, as they are on occasion, with the Boston Globe, put out the eleventy hundreth NH-Primary poll of the GOP presidential aspirant circus. Snooze. Until you dig into it and see that someone made an excellent decision to ask interesting questions of the poll respondents. Let’s start with the deficit-busting Bush tax cuts: [...]
Bob Garon, Hero of the New Hampshire Primary
This is such a perfect combination of New Hampshire Primary presidential politics and local issues and stupid stereotypes and phony candidates, I could cry tears of joy. Meet Granite Stater and Vietnam vet Bob Garon: Romney told Garon, who was chowing down on his everyday staple of scrambled eggs and shaved ham at the restaurant [...]
Open Thread: Consider The Source Edition
Imagine. Palin Advisers Want Her to Run Different Campaign Karl Rove was asked on Fox News whether Sarah Palin can run a non-conventional campaign for president. Said Rove: “Her people think so. They’ve talked with people about it, whom I’ve talked to, and they’ve been very explicit about it — that she doesn’t need to [...]
Bachmann Returns
Michele Bachmann will be back in the Granite State today for a house party in Raymond. In her campaign roll-out, she has already established a pattern of fact free commentary to fit her narrative. Examining 24 of her statements, Politifact.com … found just one to be fully true and 17 to be false (seven of [...]
Pataki, Meet Kettle
By Dean Barker on June 11, 2011 in
Tags: Carol Shea Porter, George Pataki, NH Primary, No America Debt, Revere America
Watch out, candidates! The Last Honest Man, Very Serious George Pataki has taken to the totally unbiased pages of the Union Leader to scold and wag his finger at you: Monday night, I’ll be watching to see which candidates have the courage to go beyond focus group-tested sound bites and the fortitude to address the [...]