Posted on 09/16/2009 11:48:59 AM PDT by bilhosty
Republican Kelly Ayotte leads Democrat Paul Hodes by eight points in an early look at New Hampshire’s 2010 race for the U.S. Senate.
The first Rasmussen Reports survey of the race to fill the seat being vacated by retiring GOP Senator Judd Gregg shows Ayotte ahead 46% to 38%.
Woo hoo. Ayotte is the real deal. A pro gun, pro life conservative in the Sarah Palin mold.
Hodes is a far left radical.
Ping!
Rasmussen has Jane Norton of CO leading there too.
We could pick up Senate seats in NH and CO. These states sided with Dubya in 2000. Then jumped the shark to the blue side in 2006. Having us regain ground in CO and NH is a sign of the GOP making a comeback.
She’d be the closest (geographically) US Senator that the sane folks in the Northeast will have.
Hodes is an arrogant lap poodle of Nazi Pelosi.
From local paper...
“There are small glimpses of what Ayotte might look like on the trail. Last week, she made her first public appearance since resigning, where she charmed local Republicans in Wolfeboro with her commitment to gun rights and condemnation of abortion, stimulus spending, and nontraditional marriage - views Republicans were anxious to hear her express. She “struck a local note,” according to one publication, by saying she formed her political approach as a busgirl at a local restaurant, Mame’s.”
I think Ayotte has a decent chance at unseating Hodes, but like all Republicans she'll have to overcome the huge money advantage that incumbent Democrats have. And most of that money comes from out of the state, as it did for our new junior Senator Jeanne Shaheen.
You are not far off the mark. “Massholes” have moved to NH to avoid income and sales taxes, but unfortunately many of them have reverted to old habits and they have put into power the same kind of policy-makers that drove them away from Mass in the first place. Just like the California numbnuts that have screwed up Nevada and Colorado, the snow birds who screwed up Florida, North Carolina, etc. Makes no sense. (I live in Mass but I am not a native) Lately, I sense that the pendulum might swing back.
I’m confused. I thought Gregg and Shaheen were the two senators from NH. Am I wrong about that?
Judd Gregg is retiring, so this is an open seat.
you missed the ‘retiring’ in front of the reference to Sen. Gregg.
Ayotte is running for the Senate seat currently held by Judd Gregg, who is retiring next year. Paul Hodes (D) is serving his second term in the House after unseating Jeb Bradley in 2006. So far, he is the only announced Democrat candidate for Gregg’s seat.
“Ayotte has a decent chance at unseating Hodes,”
um they are battling for Judd Gregg’s Senate seat that he is retiring from. No one is going to unseat anyone else it is an open target. IF we win it is a hold not a pickup
It had to happen.
The RAT will win.Count on it.
i live in Southeastern NH moved there from MA myself. Most of my neighbors have also moved there. this is purely anectdotal but most MA transplants vote R you can tell by the red blue divide - Rockingham county which borders MA goes Red. the rest of the state has gone blue due to college kids as well as ME and VT transplants
My bad - I meant “beating” him. Hodes’ seat will of course be open if he runs for Gregg’s seat in the Senate, giving Republicans a chance to win it back after Jeb Bradley lost it).
The Ben and Jerry types have unfortunately overtaken the western part of the state (Peterborough and Hanover) as well as the Eastern NH artsy-fartsy enclave of Portsmouth - nice town, actually, but polluted by unwashed, underemployed vegans who think begging for change in Market Square constitutes "employment".
“to win it back after Jeb Bradley lost it).”
um sorry to correct you again but Hodes picked up Bass’s old seat. Carol Che Porter is currently sitting in Bradley’s old seat. Mayor Guinta is running for that seat and i hope he clobbers that socialist ninny
NH folks tend to be live and let live types - except for pockets of Lib college towns, old hippie do-gooders and stupid people from Mass who want sidewalks and other nonsense urban luxuries brought to a rural state.
I for one hope Sununu jumps in to regain the seat.
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