Sorry, you're too late - Keene is already as bad as Vermont - every time we go through there - it seems like there's a crowd of smelly, birkenstock wearing, stringy haired senior citizens waving peace-queer posters or supporting Al-Jareeza or complaining about gun control while they stand around the square in the middle of main street.
That's a shame. I guess the old stereotype about quaint towns and rural areas being solidy Republican is long gone, at least in northern New England. I wonder how much longer Sens Gregg and Sununu can last.
As recently as 1988 NH went heavily Republican for president. Was it all an influx of lefties from other states that turned the state competitive, or even leaning Dem? Or is it perhaps a question of wimpy "moderate" Republicans believing the evil "Christian right" is going to overtake our lives? I think that is a problem in many suburban towns here in CT that used to lean Republican. Now a lot of moderate voters think Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson run the GOP. Nonsense.
No kidding. I took my wife down to Margarita's for dinner, and 'Farenheit 9-11' was playing at the art theatre next door. We went back for dinnner THREE MONTHS later, and 'Farenheit' was STILL playing. Half the movie's box office must have been banked in Keene.