About 2008 or 2010, by my reckoning in another post. If the FSP continued recruitment of porcupines continues after the migration has begun until those years when it's projected to have installed the first 20,000 resident in the state, the additional numbers can either climb aboard and join up with their porcupine pals in the Granite State if needed to offset the problem you describe, or can carry the effort to other states if they so choose, with some perhaps replacing those in NH who'd have really preferred a western location. At that point, they should number around three quarters of a million, given the continued rate of growth, and that's a figure greater than the number of registered Repubublicans and Democrats in NH combined now, with a few independent voters thrown in for good measure- and some of them would likely be FSP sympathetic. And of course, it's possible that the number of new Porcupines will grow at an even faster rate as the movement progresses and receives more national attention, as it just has.
So, how long until the Freestaters realize that their political power, like the political power of NH natives is going to be swamped by hard core, tax evading leftists moving there from MA...voting for tax raising hard core leftists?
Could the FSP really attract that many member/voters? Well, When Bush I ran against Clinton on his *No New Taxes* and gun control/import ban platform, one American voter in five chose an Independent from the Reform Party, a little Jug-eared Texan who liked giving flip chart presentations, rather than hold their nose again and pick between Tweedledum and Tweedledumber.
While NH is a wonderful place, I think they made a bad decision...
I agree, to a point. I think our initially limited numbers would have shown results quicker in Wyoming or Montana, though NH is an admittedly beautiful and probable more *comfortable* locale for resettlement- but I am not in this for comfort; others appear to be. I do hate the idea of having all our eggs in one basket though, and once the efort takes hold elsewhere besides NH, even if to a more limited degree and with far less greater overall results initially expected, then I'll breathe a lot easier.
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