Granite State Nail-Biter (Sununu rises from the grave)

washington post. ^ | August 24, 2008 | David Broder

[bilhosty]

When Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, lists the November races that will swell his party's majority, New Hampshire is one of the first he brags about. Here on the ground, it looks a lot less certain that Democrat Jeanne Shaheen will cut short the promising career of Sen. John Sununu, namesake son of a White House chief of staff under the first President Bush. Shaheen, a former governor who lost a close race to Sununu six years ago in an environment much more hospitable to Republicans, was a double-digit favorite early this year when she heeded supporters' pleas and left a Harvard administrative job to test Sununu again. But last weekend, as she and Sununu marched with their supporters in the Londonderry parade and then hobnobbed with voters at the Greekfest here, Shaheen acknowledged that things have changed. Reflecting on a University of New Hampshire poll released July 23 that gave her a 46 percent to 42 percent lead -- the tightest in any public poll in a year -- Shaheen said, "We always knew it would be close. It's always difficult to beat an incumbent."

[bilhosty]

You are absolutely right! how many people here secretly wish That Lincoln Chaffee was still on our team and a Senator? We would be holding all the chairmanships.

[rrrod]

Overall if we had some real Republicans this could be a Republican year if we had some real Republicans.........

[Redleg Duke]

Don't forget that as governor, Shaheen vetoed a voter ID bill that would have required voters to present a valid, photo ID in order to cast a ballot.

Shaheen is a proponent of vote fraud!

[Andy'smom]

Speaking of vote fraud, there were reports of people voting in the NH primary using the addresses of vacation homes owned by out of state residents. Do you know if this was ever investigated?

[Redleg Duke]

Not a word.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Why do people keep suggesting pro-abortion runningmates for Senator McCain? A month ago it was Crist, two weeks ago it was Ridge, last week it was Giuliani, Lieberman and Romney, just this morning I heard Colin Powell, and now Kay Bailey Hutchison. Have people forgotten that John McCain needs to pick a VP to his right so as to energize the conservative base of the party and to ensure that socially conservative Democrats repulsed by Obama turn out to vote?

[Norman Bates]

Is Shea Porter going?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Yup, totally insane.