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Posted on 07/23/2015 1:16:34 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R) holds a slight lead over Gov. Maggie Hassan (D) in a new poll of a hypothetical matchup for Ayotte’s seat, a race that could prove to be one of the battleground elections determining the control of the Senate.
Ayotte is ahead 47 percent to 41 percent with likely voters, according to a new poll by the University of New Hampshire and WMUR-9 News. That result is outside the margin of error.
Most local and national Democrats see Hassan as the party’s best shot at winning the seat on the way to taking back the Senate. But as Hassan hasn’t publicly announced a decision on whether to wade into the race, only 10 percent of likely voters are definitive, while 81 percent are still deciding.
The finding comes just weeks after a poll sponsored by a major Democratic super-PAC showed Hassan holding a slight lead over Ayotte, as well as other recent polling that showed Ayotte ahead within the margin of error.
The poll also details a dramatic slump in popularity for embattled Rep. Frank Guinta (R-N.H.), who recently settled with the Federal Election Commission to return more than $300,000 that the FEC says was an improper donation from his parents.
Forty-nine percent of likely voters have an unfavorable view of Guinta, compared to just 25 percent who hold a favorable view of him. That’s a stark difference from his numbers when he was voted back into office in 2014, when both his favorables and unfavorables hovered around 28 percent.
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A plurality of likely voters want him to resign his seat, 44 percent. Fifty-five percent say that they would definitely vote for another candidate, including 33 percent of Republicans. Only 11 percent of Republicans are sure that they would vote for Guinta
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Your alternative universe visions of a “Massholechusetts Rebirth” are about as realistic as my alternative universe vision of the destruction of the USSR post September 2, 1945, via a two fronted war campaign against them.
Soviet Red Hampshire (home of the ‘Weed State Project’) tried running a conservative woman (Marilinda Garcia) against the laothsome and foul-mouthed Anne Kuster last time around...Ms. Garcia got her brains beat in. Radical lady-parts voters rule this state with an iron fist. A bill to clean up voter fraud was just VETOED by Hassan...the dems still need those out of state voters, apparently...
It can happen. It’s just going to take work. Many Southern residents couldn’t have imagined their states with at or near-all Democrat elected officials would come around to the GOP decades ago. Even here in TN in the ‘70s and late ‘80s-early ‘90s, things looked bad. But I predicted by 2010 the state would go GOP across the board and down to the legislative level, and it did.
That match between Garcia and Kuster was not on equal footing. Garcia was badly outmatched in funding. Although she raised and spent almost as much as Frank Guinta ($1.2 million), Kuster had a whopping $3.7 million. Even Jeanne Shaheen had an obscene $16.5 million to Scott Brown’s $9.2 million. Carol “Che” Porter outspent Guinta by almost a half-million ($1.7 mil to $1.245), but he was able to prevail.
If Garcia had closer to $4 million and lost by a wide margin, that would’ve been a better test. In most general election races, a winner can almost always be predicted outright just on money alone (only in instances where a candidate is running in a heavily party-favored district even if the opposition candidate has substantially more money or if the rich incumbent is considerably unpopular - most notably in NY-24, where the Dem incumbent Katko outspent his GOP opponent almost 3-to-1 ($2.7 mil to $1 mil), but lost (though the district was ancestrally GOP) or NY-19 where a rich Dem (Sean Eldridge) tried to buy a GOP seat by a 2-to-1 margin ($6.4 mil to $3.2) from the incumbent, Chris Gibson, but still lost.
And then Frank turned that song into a anthem for JFK in ‘60 (and then JFK stabbed him in the back a few years later). Bleh.
Conservatives are wondering aloud if Mrs. Hassan as Senator would do to New Hampshire what her husband is doing to Phillips Exeter Academy.
Leni
Any relation to....
His wife, the Guv, is United Church of Christ...ultra-liberal denomination which is pro-abortion, member of the ultra-Left National Council of Churches which is anti-war, no religious creed (the only required profession of faith is "love", adherents interpret the Bible "as you will", not literally..... you know the drill.
(...sources: Wikipedia and other references).
It's not known if Hassan belongs to his wife's church or subscribes to her beliefs.
Leni
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