Posted on 09/21/2014 9:12:37 AM PDT by centurion316
Voters have soured on President Obama. National and statewide trends favor Republicans. And here in his new home state, Scott Brown’s truck is gaining speed.
Analysts and recent polls have found Brown closing in on US Senator Jeanne Shaheen, the Democratic incumbent he is vying to unseat, in a race that has become increasingly nasty and expensive.
Once largely dismissed by critics as an unlikely second act in a state he moved to only last year, Brown’s Senate bid is increasingly seen as a plausible path back to the US Capitol.
Observers see a race that may be largely determined not by Brown, a top-notch retail campaigner, or by Shaheen, a popular, longtime elected official, but by the national mood.
“In wave elections, as people find out, you can have been a good candidate and done a good job for your constituents and still find yourself swept out,” said Steve Duprey, New Hampshire’s Republican national committeman. “If there’s a national tide, it will roll here too.”
On the stump and in TV ads, Brown constantly ties Shaheen to Obama, who has a job approval rating of just 38 percent among likely New Hampshire voters, according to one poll released this week. The former Massachusetts senator rarely misses an opportunity to express his dismay that Shaheen votes in lockstep with the president or to nationalize the race, speaking about issues such as immigration and the threat from the burgeoning militant group in Iraq and Syria.
Shaheen, a onetime governor, repeatedly underscores her local achievements for the state — from working to protect a shipyard from closure and to helping veterans get easier access to health care. She attacks Brown as more keen on boosting his own career than aiding New Hampshire.
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Jeff Sessions is the ranking member of the Budget Committee and will chair if the Republicans take the Senate. He has said that he will block any funding for amnesty. Chuck Grassley is ranking member at Judiciary and he has said that amnesty is a non-starter. Exactly how is McConnell going to advance amnesty with these two refusing to go along?
Of course, the Democrat committee chair are in full support of Reid’s plan.
Just to cite one of the more obvious differences.
Immigration amnesty is going to happen. The only questions are timing, and which party will take the heat for it.
If a contest is between a Republican and a Democrat and there are 10 voters, 5 Republicans and 5 Democrats, what are the possible outcomes? If all the Republicans vote Republican and all the Democrats vote Democrat, the race is a tie and it’s decided on a coin flip.
If one of the Republicans votes for the Democrat, or if that Republican stays home and doesn’t vote, the Democrat wins. The same scenario applies in reverse if a Democrat voter does the same.
Your behavior helps Democrats, that’s the part that I understand.
NH is no longer a conservative state. It's now Massachusetts North, since Massachusetts moved up there to escape Massachusetts.
One funny thing about this race is that Shaheen has decided to tout her "small business experience," which was her and her husband's co-ownership of a pawn shop, with her brother-in-law. The funny thing is that it was a fencing operation for her brother-in-law.
He voted against it, as he promised. Obama, Reid and Pelosi forced its illegal passage.
Tea Party supporters assumed that he was Tea Party. He was not, and is not. All we should have reasonably expected from Brown is what we got.
I can understand Tea Party supporters being disappointed in his RINOism, but they shouldn't have expected more. His election should have killed Obamacare, and that alone would have been well worth the investment.
> Observers see a race that may be largely determined not by Brown, a top-notch retail campaigner, or by Shaheen, a popular, longtime elected official, but by the national mood.
Except here on FR. There are still FINOs who purport to believe that Scott Brown would have been just as bad as Fauxahontas in Massachusetts.
/bingo
Actually, they don’t believe it for a minute. The purpose is to get others to believe it.
Praying all of the Pubbie candidates can ride the anti-0bola wave.
VERY well put.
Similar thing going on here in Alaska. In a normal election cycle, Sullivan would not stand a chance against Begitch. Running against Harry Reid and Obama, however, he might just pull it off.
I totally disagree. Look. ODimwit is loathed, even by LibTards, but people hat they GOP more. No. The only thing ODim’s low ratings will do is maybe tamp down on turnout.
And the polls, but for one outlier, have sucked for Brown.
Stop the happy talk article writers and focus on facts.
That is the way to keep Harry Reid in power! They use the same logic here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/
So we should put you down as a Shaheen/Reid supporter?
So we should put you down as a Shaheen/Reid supporter?
No, I don’t support Democrats of either party
HEAR! HEAR!
This simple bit of arithmetic, is sadly over the head of many.
I try to avoid having to take off my shoes and socks to work the math.
MORE THAN A FEW TROLLS HERE.
Have kin that was mid level in both Bush campaigns; they never rest. Never.
Was VERY knowledgable about FR and DU...
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