Posted on 11/04/2014 5:58:18 PM PST by Steelfish
From Midterm Elections 2014: Live Updates
SHAHEEN PROJECTED TO WIN NEW HAMPSHIRE SENATE RACE
ABC's BEN SIEGEL: Based on our exit poll and our analysis of the vote in so far, ABC News projects that New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen has won re-election against Republican candidate Scott Brown. Brown, a former Massachusetts senator, shocked the political world in 2010 by winning the seat long held by the late Ted Kennedy.
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Live Free or Die?
Pfft...
Jeanne Shaheen (the 'abortion barbie' of Red England) was born in Missouri.
NH has been a blue state for some time now. Jean Shaheen was a term Governor and a one term Senator. That’s a lot of years of liberal crap leading your state. Not to mention Obama.
The House of Representatives have representatives that reflect the number of citizens of the district in a State. The House votes on issues that need the OK from the number of citizens represented by their elected Congresscritter. There are 435 Congresscritters. The House is responsible for the Purse (Budget).
The Senate has representatives that reflect the number of States irrespective on the size of the State and the size of its population. The Senate is the deliberative political body and each State has equal representation, i.e. two Senators. The Senate confirms Judges, political appointees made by the POTUS, etc.
If you like your IRS gestapo tactics, you can keep them. (just like here in Minnesota with Weird Al Franken)
Guinta, Frank GOP 52,533 52%
Shea-Porter, Carol (i) Dem 48,223 48%
A lot of tea party folks would not vote for Brown, because he was squishy on gun rights.
I know a Christians who would not vote for him because of his pro-abort, pro-gay positions.
He wasn’t my favorite candidate, but I felt I was voting strategically by voting for him.
My more principled brethren would not budge, however.
Having a weakling like Brown at the top of the Republican ticket probably hurt everything down-ticket, too.
Howie Carr tried real hard to gin-up support for him, but a lot of good, principled people are figuring it’s got to get worse before it can get better, and they’re willing to bite the bullet to do it.
I suppose Sen Ayotte will have a hard time getting reelected in 2 years. With the GOP tidal wave in NH in 2010 I thought they were turning back to the center but apparently not. What a shame.
He won the Kennedy seat - Coakley was irrelevant. He ran as “41” to stop Obama Care. It was huge statement win.
I wouldn’t vote for Scott Brown either, if I lived in such a commie state that a leftwinger was the best it could do, I would start the moving process
VT is even more commie, only 3 republicans on the entire ballot!
Maybe if the GOP in NH hadn’t nominated squishy liberals they’d have a shot
If they had run any other candidate, the Democrats win that seat easily.
Live free... or not.
On the bright side, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass, Scotty.
That is the excuse I hear all the time.
I guess if that is the case, I won’t have to hear any NH conservatives blasting me for living in MA, asking why I don’t leave, how could I live in such a blue state, etc.
Yeah. Just keep telling yourself that.
FoxNews just officially called it for Shaheen!
nope, you are wrong. Bad candidates win all the time in deep blue states.
some people aren’t paying close attention as to what’s happening in our country...very sad.
I get very tired of NH types, including Laura Ingraham, boasting about how tough they are and the Live Free Or Die motto yet we get the likes of Shaheen (Scott Brown notwithstanding).
Even worse is their 4-year vanity cycle in which they allow the media to direct their (poor) choice of a primary winner and the rest of the nation is supposed to jump in line.
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