I don't know about that. I have talked to State Reps (Thomas, Czech, Rosen) and a Senator (Johnson) who supported this guy. It seems nobody asked him why he did not serve in uniform, nor did they ask about the federal death penalty, partial birth abortion, gays in uniform, his views on Bush's plan to begin harvesting western forests...nothing; nobody knows. He's a personable guy who did a good job on the utility issue and thus they lent him their support. We don't know where he stands.
Instead we hear he owned a hardware store in Wolfboro and likes to climb around rocks.
In NH, the fix may be to statutorily require a winning candidate to receive at least forty percent of the vote or face a run off primary. If you are interested, talk to NH State Senator Robert Boyce and put in a good word for the ammendment: I think he may be toying with introducing something like this.
That is simply remarkable. If personable is one of the only reasons why supposedly intelligent people would support a candidate for high office, I can point out to the local prison, there's lots of charming and personable folks sitting behind bars.
"Instead we hear he owned a hardware store in Wolfboro and likes to climb around rocks."
Well if the rest of the primary voters decide to stay at home or skip voting in that race, ole Jeb will have a lot of time to "Climb ev'ry mountain" come January.
"In NH, the fix may be to statutorily require a winning candidate to receive at least forty percent of the vote or face a run off primary. If you are interested, talk to NH State Senator Robert Boyce and put in a good word for the ammendment: I think he may be toying with introducing something like this."
Well, if he'd listen to an out-of-stater like moi (I'm in TN). We've got the same exact problem in this state, as well as in others. Sometimes it isn't so bad (when the Dems badly split and nominate a leftist radical that has zilch hope in the general), but sometimes it is (such as with Jeb). Back in '96, so many candidates flooded into the TN-1st US House district GOP primary that the winner emerged with a stunning 18% of the vote (only 300 votes ahead of the nearest competitor). Fortunately, the winner, Bill Jenkins, was a good guy, and won a landslide general victory in the historically GOP district.