Posted on 10/06/2017 6:49:47 PM PDT by SMGFan
Washington (CNN)New Hampshire Democratic Rep. Carol Shea-Porter announced Friday that she will retire at the end of her term, turning one of the nation's most competitive House seats into an open race.
New Hampshire's 1st District has changed hands -- from Shea-Porter to Republican Frank Guinta -- in every election since 2010. Shea-Porter has served four terms since 2007, but lost the office twice in that span. It's one of the nation's true swing districts. Both Barack Obama in 2012 and Donald Trump in 2016 won it by less than 2 percentage points
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Last time around (He was carpetbagging in another district in the other end of the state and I think it was his fifth or sixth failed attempt to be elected to something aside from Mayor of a small town), you said "If you loses this one, that's it"
Are you backing off from that statement?
Well, he’s persistent. Look at the lady from American Samoa. Took a dozen tries to finally get into Congress. She then got the highest reelect % for a Delegate in the history of the territory last year.
I’ll look at a potential candidate and ask, “Are they really costing us in running ?” If the answer is “no”, I’m not going to get worked up over it. He’s not causing any real damage. If the voters in the 5th think he’s too much a perennial gadfly, he won’t go anywhere in the primary.
More winning! This is going into the “Drain the Swamp” category.
JoMa
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