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Posted on 08/03/2014 3:30:16 PM PDT by Plummz
Good Lord, where was the knarf alert on this one ??
More like Marxist College.
Just another pissant libtard state trying to stay relevant . . .
NH is not a swing state Presidentially. It was a reliably GOP state from 1948 to 1988, with the lone exception of 1964. From 1992 to date it has been a reliably Democrat state, with the lone exception of 2000 (and that was accidental, since Nader took a key 4% from Gore, otherwise the state would’ve gone 51-48% for him instead of 48-47% for Dubya, as Kerry took it 50-49% in 2004). If it were to vote Republican in 2016, that would likely mean the GOP candidate wins nationally.
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In this one case and one case only I think Beckel is right...”Hillary will not run”.
NH is a solid ‘Rat state.
Willard carried only 3 out of 10 NH counties. If all the Libertarian votes had gone to him, it wouldn’t have mattered. Zero carried the state with 52%, 1% more than nationally. It frankly demonstrated how weak he was in New England when he could only carry 5 counties there in total (3 in NH, 1 in CT & 1 in ME — none in his beloved Massachusetts).
Also, of the 3 counties Willard won, only 1 of them was in the Southern 6-county tier (Rockingham). The other 2 were in the central-east, in Belknap & Carroll on the ME border. Belknap was his best county, and that by a subpar 51.85% and Carroll by 230 votes.
Zero took 6 of the remaining 7 counties by fairly wide margins (with Southwestern Cheshire going 61-37% for him followed by Grafton with the same rounded margin). Hillsborough was the sole county he won by just a plurality at 49.8%.
Just as a reference, the last time the counties went Republican are as follows:
Belknap - 2012 (last Dem 2008)
Carroll - 2012 (last Dem 2008)
Cheshire - 1988
Coos - 2000
Grafton - 1988
Hillsborough - 2004
Merrimack - 1988
Rockingham - 2012 (last Dem 2008)
Strafford - 1988
Sullivan - 2000
Forget all this, Red Hampshire is forever Democrat now.
The future of the party is neither the Pauls nor the Willards.
Sen. Paul is only three points from Hillary in this one. Seems doable.
Just for info I looked up the D primary 08.
39 Hillary
36 Baraq
17 John Hunter-Edwards
Never pronounce anywhere “forever” locked in, because things can change. Who would’ve thought after Watergate that AL, AR, LA, MS, et al, would be solid GOP today ? Same goes for countless formerly reliable GOP areas in the ‘80s. In 1988, even with Dukakis on the ballot, Bush, Sr. carried every NH county. 16 years later, the son could only get 4 out of 10 counties.
Look at WV, which was reliably Democrat from 1932 onwards (at least with the exception of some Republicans running for reelection). In 2000, it had had quite enough. Zero lost every county there in 2012, not even when WV was a GOP state from 1896-1928 did they pull off such a feat.
Move 50,000 committed Conservatives to NH (actually, you wouldn’t even need that many) and the state would go back to the GOP. Frankly, a lot should do precisely that and take back some of these smaller states. Tennessee is so top-heavy GOP now we’ve got more than we need.
Except the Willards and McCains are the problem. The party establishment (which is more comfortable with Democrats in charge and in the White House) hammered the base over the head that it was soooo important to nominate “moderates” (sic), because only they could win.
McCain did such a fantastic job that he did something unachievable by any GOP candidate in the modern era... he failed to carry a single county in NH in 2008. Even Goldwater managed to carry Carroll County in 1964 (the most stalwart pro-GOP county remaining) and Dole in 1996, McCain blew that one.
After these two RINO Socialist ringers in ‘08 & ‘12, it’s time we got back to nominating Conservatives again. I refused to vote for Willard in ‘12 (I voted for ex-Congressman Virgil Goode as the only Conservative on the ballot for President). The party will continue to perform poorly as long as it keeps putting up unprincipled lying left-wing losers. We must put up Ted Cruz in 2016. He’s the only sane candidate left who can pull us back from the brink.
DJ, “forever” was the wrong word. How about “for the forseeable future. New Englanders are too stubborn to admit they are wrong.
How do you assess Carr v. Lamar! I say Lamar! takes it by eight points.
I think a lot of the best and brightest from New England have voted with their feet since the 1980s and headed south to more sensible states that are managed well. Of course, Maine has one of the best Governors in the nation in Paul LePage (he’s precisely the type that should be fast-tracked to the Presidency, someone born in abject poverty, up from the bootstraps, no bullcrap). Sadly, the national party establishment just wants blue-blooded Socialist ringers, the most execrable and incompetent.
As for TN, I don’t even want to jinx it by making a prediction. I’m praying for a miracle this week in blasting that senile, lying liberal RINO out of office.
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