Posted on 09/13/2022 5:34:57 AM PDT by cotton1706
New Hampshire will hold the last Senate primary before the 2022 midterm elections on Tuesday, with the contest influencing whether Republicans will control Congress next session.
New Hampshire’s Senate race has captured the most attention, with the GOP vying to defeat Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan, a first-term incumbent who won in 2016 by less than 1,000 votes and is seen as a “vulnerable” incumbent by Republicans. But her likely Republican opponent, Don Bolduc, could prove controversial in the blue state.
The Republican Senate primary in which Bolduc is competing has been described by Politico as damaging to the party. Bolduc, a retired U.S. Army Brigadier General and the current frontrunner, is seen by some Republicans as too populist – á la former President Donald Trump – to win a general election. Bolduc has embraced Trump (who did not make an endorsement in the race) and suggested that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. He also made comments disparaging the COVID-19 vaccine before later getting vaccinated himself. (RELATED: NYT Analyst Pours Cold Water On Democrats’ Midterm Optimism)
New Hampshire’s popular Republican Gov. Chris Sununu has called Bolduc a “conspiracy-theorist type candidate” and endorsed New Hampshire State Senate President Chuck Morse, who currently trails Bolduc by over 20-points (i.e., 22% to Bolduc’s 43%), according to the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. Morse has also been supported by White Mountain PAC, which has ties to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and has spent $4.6 million on his campaign.
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NH is a blue state?
New Hampshire’s popular Republican Gov. Chris Sununu has called Bolduc a “conspiracy-theorist type candidate” and endorsed New Hampshire State Senate President Chuck Morse, who currently trails Bolduc by over 20-points (i.e., 22% to Bolduc’s 43%), according to the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. Morse has also been supported by White Mountain PAC, which has ties to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and has spent $4.6 million on his campaign.
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Do *not* send money to the GOPe!
It has been.
Southern NH is full of Mass transplants. And the folks in Northern NH are selling their lake and mountain homes to transplants.
NH, has gone either way for a good while now. In the year 2000, NH was the state which made the difference in Bush v. Gore, overlooked by virtually every News outlet. Check the Electoral Vote. If NH went ‘blue’ we would have had President Gore.
True though, Massachusetts Rats are moving to NH in big numbers which has significantly altered the political landscape there.
“Mass transplants”
Aren’t they usually called Massholes?
Sounds like the good guy might win.
Why is it that everyone’s screaming for democracy yet when we the people make our choice, they call us extremists. We know the government has failed us and we’re making changes. Rinos can get on board or be left behind.
Yes, Bolduc is going to win the primary even though McConnell and the GOPe spent big money to push Morse.
When Morse could not win based on his message or personality, they came up with “Bolduc can not beat Hassan”. This is the same thing that was said about Reagan, Trump and all other conservative candidates.
We don’t usually refer to ourselves that way.
But…yeah, that’s it.
It's the public schools, I know many a teenager totally indoctrinated into thinking the only thing worth perusing in college is fighting climate change. People need to wake up.
I know what you mean. My brother moved to Mass and became a Zombie because of all the Leftists there.
I hope that New England is saved somehow and joins the traditional world of civilization.
We’ll see.
A major league douchebag in all of this is Hugh Hewitt, who goes on his show and has claimed day after day that the only GOPer that can bear Hasan is Morse. Hugh, shut the bleep up.
Bolduc as a private in the army rose to a one star general. Also did 10 tours of Afghanistan. Nobody is more qualified than this guy.
Correct, they are called “Massholes”.
However, many of the people that move from Mass to NH do it because they are so sick of the MA politics and feeling like they are not being represented in their state. There are conservatives that live in MA. They tend to be more Libertarian than Born Again Christian Right.
These people move to NH to live because they want a better quality of life that NH affords. Many of them still end up working in MA. So, they pay MA income taxes and NH property taxes. These people tend to be more conservative. These are the guys running around in an F150 with a Patriots and Bruins sticker on the back.
The people who want to change NH are the rich liberals who retire from CT, NY, MA, NJ, RI to their lake house in central NH. Then they want to change NH because their property tax is very high on lakefront property.
The main concentration of Dems in NH is in the college towns:
Durham(UNH), Keene(Keene State), Plymouth(Plymouth State), Hanover(Dartmouth) and the towns surrounding them.
Southern NHU is the largest college by enrollment but it is primarily an online enrollment.
The other concentration of Dems is in Concord where there is a large percentage of state government employees.
NH has 3 electoral votes, the minimum. Same
as number of Senators and Representatives.
The final 2000 tally
Bush 30 states
Gore 20 states & DC
Bush 271 EV
Gore 266 EV
Ok so you subtract 3 from Bush and give to
Gore if Gore wins NH. That makes it
Gore 269 EV
Bush 268 EV
But isn’t there a minimum of 270 needed?
Wikipedia:”One of D.C.’s three electors abstained from casting a vote for president or vice president.”
Would the election have been thrown to
the House?
TN was important. 11 EV
“Gore failed to win the popular vote in his home state, Tennessee, which both he and his father had represented in the Senate, making him the first major-party presidential candidate to have lost his home state since George McGovern lost South Dakota in 1972”
FL was won by Bush by only 537 votes.
TN was won by 80,000 votes
NH was won by 7,000 votes
FL was a nailbiter but those 7000 votes
in NH were important
Didn’t NH go Red last election cycle? So the former General is a populist, which concerns McConnell, seems to me is that he is the right man for the job!
Don was my Battalion commander on two trips to Afghanistan.
Start asking leftists to show you the data, rather than unsubstantiated opinions.
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