| UFO photographed over Hampshire,UK,June,2008 | | 2008-06-29 09:12:40 | | Hi guys, my mail get flooded by all kin dof UFO reports from our readers,Now we have REMARKABLE new evidence of UFOs in the skies over Hampshire can be revealed today. The UFOs were snapped over Beaulieu and Woolston by pure accident and only noticed days later by the photographers.Keen amateur photographer Richard Branch was in the garden of his Brockenhurst home when he photographed an American Heuy Helicopter on display at Beaulieu on May 26. It was not until he later checked his photographs that he noticed there was a strange flying object in one of them."I took the photo from quite a distance and at the time was only interested in catching the helicopter, I didn't notice the object until I looked at the photos on my computer some days later," he said."I can't explain what it is. Others have said balloon, drone or bird, but if this was the case it would have shown up in the first photo taken one minute earlier. The light reflecting from the object looks to me as though | | By: SKYWATCHER:VIDEO BLOG | | |
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| Unity, New Hampshire | | 2008-06-23 14:12:25 | | Sometimes, you can't help but laugh/cry/groan.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaign together for the first time ever.
They will appear in the town of UNITY, New Hampshire. Where they each recieved 107 votes. I wonder how long the interns spent searching the nation for the most symbolically useful location. I don't think anyone will ever say that the Obama campaign doesn't understand | | By: Poli-Think | | |
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| New Hampshire Governor Cuts Spending for the Mentally Ill | | 2008-06-22 06:50:21 | | Because New Hampshire governor John Lynch is so irresponsible and has created a huge budget deficit he is now forced to start spending cuts. He has already raised taxed over $100 million and it still isn’t enough. It is about time that the New Hampshire governor cuts spending. So where do the cuts come from? [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| John McCain and New Hampshire Governor Lynch are too Close | | 2008-06-16 20:51:12 | | There has been a theory by New Hampshire Republicans that John McCain’s nomination could be a very good thing for New Hampshire. The theory goes something like this; John McCain is very popular in New Hampshire and will draw many New Hampshire Independents to the polls as well as some Democrats across the isle to [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| Wake Up America Endorses Joe Kenney for New Hampshire Governor | | 2008-06-16 20:10:39 | | Cross posted on Grizzly Groundswell
Homegrown New Hampshire state Senator Joe Kenney is the Republican nominee for governor to take on the liberal, tax and spend, deficit building, nanny state, rights infringing Democrat John Lynch (also known as teflon Lohn).
Joe Kenney has been in state politics for 14 years and is a former Marine. While in [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Governor Refuses to Agree to a Campaign Spending Cap | | 2008-06-13 22:18:51 | | Today was the last day to file if a person decided to run for office in New Hampshire. No more Republicans filed so our nominee is Joe Kenney. Joe Kenney agreed to a voluntary campaign spending cap of $1.2 million and he challenged our liberal spend-aholic governor to do the same. He refused. Big [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| More on New Hampshire’s Budget Deficit (Governor Lynch Still Sucks) | | 2008-06-11 18:15:42 | | Once again when writing about Governor Lynch I have to ask, does this sound like leadership to you?
To deal with the state’s budget shortfall, the governor had proposed bonding $80 million of operating expenses. The House had quite sensibly rejected borrowing money to solve the budget mess. The governor, to whose popularity most of them [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| More on New Hampshire’s School Funding Fiasco (Governor Lynch Sucks) | | 2008-06-11 17:45:58 | | Below is an editorial that appeared in today’s New Hampshire Union Leader reprinted in it’s entirety. This editorial hits on a few of the points that I have been making here for awhile and this just reinforces my opinion of our teflon governor.
GOV. JOHN LYNCH’S inability to stop legislative overspending is getting tiresome.
On Monday, [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Democrats Apologize For Having no Class | | 2008-06-10 19:39:33 | | I recently wrote about the despicable money raising email
that was sent out by New Hampshire Democrats last week here. In the email the Democrats compared the two parties by saying that while the Democrats have raised record amounts of money, the Republican’s leader died and the Republicans are split. The email went on to [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Governor Lets $940 Million School Funding Bill Become Law | | 2008-06-10 18:40:33 | | Is this what John Lynch calls leadership? In a manner very reminiscent of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, John Lynch let a $940 million school funding bill slip into law without his signature. Governor Lynch supposedly was against this bill but he refused to veto it and so now this soon to be tax increase is law [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Democrats Prove They Have no Class | | 2008-06-06 20:55:12 | | New Hampshire Democrats have reached a new low. In a fund raising email sent out by New Hampshire state Democrats, the following was written:
House Republicans have had no caucus fund-raisers that we know of. They are struggling to find candidates. They have tragically lost their leader this year and can’t unify as a party. [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Governor John Lynch is Losing Control of his Party | | 2008-06-03 20:59:09 | | Cross posted at Grizzly Groundswell
The man who calls himself a great leader, Governor John Lynch, has failed to lead his own party in the fight to fix the New Hampshire budget that he screwed up in the first place.
With all the heat in the proverbial kitchen these days, it might surprise the casual observer [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Governor John Lynch’s Budget Plan: Tax, Borrow, Spend | | 2008-05-25 20:35:31 | | Below is an editorial reprinted in it’s entirety from the New Hampshire Union Leader, it sums up our pathetic tax, borrow, and spend governor perfectly.
GOV. JOHN LYNCH was supposed to be a kinder, gentler Craig Benson. He’d be the millionaire former business executive who balanced the state budget without raising taxes, but also without angering [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| 28th ANNUAL NEW HAMPSHIRE HIGHLAND GAMES | | 2008-05-24 23:11:14 | | The New Hampshire Highland Games make for a great family outing, with plenty to do for all ages at affordable prices. There are numerous lodging and dining options nearby, as this year we will be hosting the Games at the Hopkinton State Fairgrounds near the capital city of Concord.
Media passes are available upon request. Please let me know whether I can be of any assistance. Thank you for your consideration.
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| The Truth About Former New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen | | 2008-05-22 20:39:43 | | Former New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen, who is now running for the United States senate against Republican John Sununu, and whose husband was forced to resign from Hillary Clinton’s campagn for suggesting that Obama was a drug dealer, has unleashed her first ad of the campaign. According to all the polls John Sununu is in real trouble. National [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| Free State Project to Host New Hampshire Freedom Festival 2008 at Gunstock | | 2008-05-21 08:00:49 | | Free State Project to Host New Hampshire Freedom Festival 2008 at Gunstock
The Free State Project, one of the largest pro-liberty organizations in the country, will be hosting their annual Porcupine Freedom Festival (PorcFest) in New Hampshire June 9-15. The purpose of the Free State Project is to recruit 20,000 pro-liberty activists to move to the Granite State. After relocating, they will work toward the creation of a society in which the maximum role of government is the protection of life, liberty, and property. So far, over 8,300 have signed up and over 1,000 will have moved by the end of 2008.
Those who have already moved have been elected to state and local office; formed influential political activism organizations; created newspapers, radio, and television shows; started successful businesses; and overall have formed a vibrant community intent of preserving and promoting the Live Free or Die lifestyle of New Hampshire.
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| New Hampshire Democrats Update Platform to Include an Income Tax | | 2008-05-20 21:41:01 | | Last week the New Hampshire Democrat party had their state convention, and according to this article they tried to hide their true platform. While voting to amend the state party platform they failed to add language to oppose the death penalty, but only because they were reminded by party leaders that it might not be [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Governor John Lynch is Having Trouble Leading his own Party | | 2008-05-18 19:55:08 | | Governor John Lynch likes to think of himself as a leader. During his re-election campaign he talked about all his successes during his first term while working with a Republican majority as proof of his leadership and skill at working with both parties.
Now that he has been re-elected and he has a Democrat majority a funny [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Rep. Carol Shea-Porter Breaks her Campaign Promise | | 2008-05-18 07:31:35 | | Carol Shea-Porter beat Jeb Bradley in 2006 using a grassroots effort. Retail politics is what she called it. With little organization and money behind her she was able to pull off a huge upset because of the anti-Bush, anti-Republican mood in New Hampshire.
She promised that she would always run this way because Washington needed to [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Tax Increases put on Hold, For Now | | 2008-05-14 20:52:15 | | It’s an election year and nobody wants to raise taxes in an election year. Unless you are New Hampshire Governor John Lynch, then you are so sure of your re-election prospects that you have no problem raising taxes. Unfortunately, for Governor Lynch, not all legislators in New Hampshire are as sure of their re-election as he [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| Video: Jeb Bradley, The Right Kind of Change for New Hampshire | | 2008-05-13 19:43:55 | | Cross posted on Grizzly Groundswell
Jeb Bradley is running for New Hampshire’s first district congressional seat. If he wins the Republican nomination he will be taking on incumbent moonbat Carol Shea-Porter in a rematch of the 2006 election. In this television ad he goes after said moonbat. Current New Hampshire polls have Jeb Bradley beating Carol [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| Massachusetts One Ups New Hampshire With Cigarette Tax Hike | | 2008-05-10 13:27:39 | | This has just been kind of interesting to watch. Massachusetts has approved another $1.00 a pack tax on cigarettes, a tax burden that unfairly affects the poor and disadvantaged at a disproportionate level by the way. A tax that preys on a person’s weakness seems like an extremely vile tax to me in the first place.
Anyway, [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire’s School Funding Proposal is Unconstitutional | | 2008-05-09 22:09:25 | | An interesting editorial appeared in the New Hampshire Union Leader today, here it is reprinted in it’s entirety:
THE CLASSIC Popeye cartoon character named Wimpy had a taste for hamburgers that exceeded his budget. Always short on cash, he would go into a restaurant and utter his famous catch-phrase, “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire to Debate yet Another Impeachment Resolution | | 2008-05-09 21:29:12 | | How many fucking times to we have to go through this bullshit? COME ON NEW HAMPSHIRE, SOLVE THE BUDGET DEFICIT GOVERNOR LYNCH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR AND STOP WASTING YOUR FUCKING TIME WITH THIS! If anybody should be impeached it is Governor Lynch for his reckless and idiotic tax and spend legislation that is about to bankrupt [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| Another Possible Republican Cadidate for New Hampshire Governor | | 2008-05-08 20:36:56 | | New Hampshire may now have a second Republican candidate for governor. His name is James Adams and he seems to have party insiders excited. For whatever reason party insiders aren’t real excited about their other candidate, Joe Kenney. Several Republicans have considered taking on the popular, liberal governor of New Hampshire, John Lynch, including the [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| More on New Hampshire’s Budget Deficit | | 2008-05-05 19:54:43 | | Below is an editorial that appeared in today’s New Hampshire Union Leader in it’s entirety, it sums up Governor John Lynch’s budget policy perfectly:
CIGARETTE-SMOKING poker players beware. Gov. John Lynch has decided to balance the state budget on the backs of you sinners.
Facing a budget shortfall that grows by the week, Gov. Lynch surprised no [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Senator John Sununu a Possible VP Candidate | | 2008-05-04 21:03:05 | | Cross posted on Grizzly Groundswell
New Hampshire senator John Sununu, who looks as though he is going to lose his re-election bid to Jeanne Shaheen as New Hampshire looks poised to turn a deeper shade of blue, it rumored to be one of the candidates for vice president that John McCain is looking at.
According to this article [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Governor Approves More Sin Taxes | | 2008-05-01 21:07:00 | | Cross posted on Grizzly Groundswell
I am not even going to bore you again here with the details of New Hampshire’s budget woes other than to say that liberal Governor John Lynch vastly outspent the state’s incoming revenue by a projected $200 million plus. If you are so inclined you can read more about New Hampshire’s [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Anti-Tax Group Looks to Cap Tax Increases | | 2008-04-29 21:36:27 | | As anyone who reads here regularly knows, New Hampshire has a tax and spend problem under the Democrat controlled government. It has spilled over into the different communities. The New Hampshire Advantage Coalition wants to start to reign in this spending, starting on a local level by getting a referendum on the ballot in Manchester and [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| Has New Hampshire Changed Forever? | | 2008-04-23 20:25:30 | | Cross posted on Grizzly Groundswell
Here is a link to an article that sums up the current state of New Hampshire perfectly. The author agrees with a point that I have been trying to make here for quite some time, and that is that New Hampshire is slipping away. Slowly but surely. It is a gradual [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Votes to Table Bush Impeachment Resolution | | 2008-04-17 21:09:37 | | Here is proof that maybe, just maybe, New Hampshire hasn’t gone totally insane. As I wrote about here, there was an impeachment rally held on Monday with a vote scheduled on an impeachment resolution on Wednesday.
Yesterday the impeachment resolution was tabled by a vote of 227-95 and no vote will be taken on it. It [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Impeachment Rally on April 14th | | 2008-04-13 21:50:43 | | Tomorrow as I write this, today as most will read it, in Concord there will be an impeachment rally in Concord. This “event” will be hosted by Betty Hall. Who is Betty Hall you may ask. She is the 300 year old rrepresentative who has introduced impeachment articles to the New Hampshire house. She was urged [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Governor Denies Examining a Sales or Income Tax | | 2008-04-13 08:55:41 | | New Hampshire faces a huge budget deficit this year and and even larger one next year under Governor Lynch’s fiscally irresponsible budget passed last year. When asked recently if he would look at tax increases or new taxes to fix the budget deficit he created he responded, “Well, I’m going to be looking at everything.” [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| Video: Former New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen’s Cover Up | | 2008-04-09 20:17:19 | | Cross posted at Grizzly Groundswell
The above video is from NHGOP. Below you can read the full article that also appeared on the New Hampshire Republican party’s website:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Failed former Governor and Democrat Senate candidate Jeanne Shaheen is back to her old tricks. Today, Shaheen is attempting to mislead voters about her record on [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| Where Does New Hampshire Rep. Carol Shea-Porter Stand on the Second Amendment? | | 2008-04-07 21:55:29 | | I read this editorial in the New Hampshire Union Leader today with great interest. It involves my congresswoman, Carol Shea-Porter and her position, or lack thereof, on the second amendment.
Specifically, she seems unsure of her position on the 2nd Amendment. She has always proclaimed herself a supporter of the 2nd Amendment’s declaration that “the right [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Budget Shortfall is Worse than Expected | | 2008-03-29 07:21:04 | | This recent New Hampshire Union Leader article points out that the projected $50 million shortfall fo this fiscal year alone was wildly optimistic. So was the projected $150 million dollar shortfall over the two years of the budget. From a new report by Charlie Arlinghaus, president of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, we [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| Lobbyist fees Hit New Records in New Hampshire | | 2008-03-24 05:09:56 | | Democrats have been in charge of all branches of New Hampshire state government for just over a year now, and it hasn’t taken them long to show the state why they haven’t been entrusted with this type of majority in over 100 years.
The latest fiasco is this story about the growing influences of lobbyists in [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Governor John Lynch’s Approval Rating (03/23) | | 2008-03-23 21:57:21 | | Cross posted on Grizzly Groundswell
This article shows us the latest approval rating of Governor John Lynch. These numbers are met with a bit of a mixed reaction by me.
The poll also found 55 percent of voters approving of the way Lynch is handling his job as governor, with 21 percent disapproving and 21 percent undecided.
A 55% approval rating [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| Parental Notification in New Hampshire Suffers Another Defeat | | 2008-03-23 08:31:40 | | Cross posted on Grizzly Groundswell
Well, not exactly parental notification, this was a compromise bill that went down in defeat last week. Here is little history on this issue for those of you reading about this for the first time. New Hampshire had a parental notification law on the books that was headed to the supreme [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Named the Nation’s Safest State | | 2008-03-19 21:21:23 | | I have spent a great deal of time trashing my state. I have done this not because I don’t love New Hampshire, I do. I have done this because New Hampshire has taken a dramatic left hand turn and we are in the grip of nanny state legislators who know what is best for us.
Well, [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| John McCain’s Nomination Could Benefit New Hampshire | | 2008-03-08 05:01:38 | | Cross posted on Grizzly Groundswell
I visited the New Hampshire GOP website yesterday and I saw a post that was written by NHGOP Chairman Fergus Cullen that I found interesting. As you know, New Hampshire is the state that sprung John McCain and set him on his way to becoming the Republican nominee. Fergus Cullen makes an [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire State Government Ranked Last in the Nation | | 2008-03-05 20:10:09 | | I have been bitching about the state of New Hampshire politics here for just over a year now, and it seems as though the country is now beginning to see how far New Hampshire has fallen. New Hampshire is ranked last in the nation when it comes to the way state government is run. New [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire State Representative to go on Hunger Strike Until Bush is Impeached | | 2008-02-24 07:11:33 | | Â Cross posted on Grizzly Groundswell
 New Hampshire state representative Betty Hall has decided that she will go on a hunger strike until proceedings on President Bush’s impeachment are carried out. This 87 year old, senile Democrat legislator has decided that this issue is the most important issue New Hampshire faces.
“I want the investigation of the Bush [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire to Revisit the Parental Notification Law | | 2008-02-17 19:43:55 | | In a previous post I wrote about New Hampshire repealed it’s parental notification law. This law would have made it the parent’s right to know when their UNDERAGE daughter was going to have an abortion. The fact that we need a law that makes it a parent’s right to know what their MINOR daughter is up [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Legislature to Vote on 60% Cigar Tax | | 2008-02-17 06:32:49 | | Leave it to the Democrat majority in New Hampshire to come up with anther way to put small businesses out of business. The state’s budget is in disarray because of last year’s spending spree, and in order to try to come up with more money the state legislature is looking at more new taxes instead [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Democrats Have Trouble Trying to Distribute Their Delegates | | 2008-02-15 19:23:48 | | As can be read here, New Hampshire Democrats are having a hell of a time trying to divide up the delegates between Clinton, Obama, and Edwards. The problem isn’t about how many delegates each candidate should receive, but who should be chosen as delegates.
New Hampshire Democrats have imposed racial preferences and given certain ethnic groups [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| Are Both New Hampshire Representatives Spending Tax Dollars Illegally? | | 2008-02-10 07:47:28 | | Cross posted at Grizzly Groundswell
The Union Leader recently ran this article about some questionable mailings that Rep. Paul Hodes (D-2nd district) and Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-1st district) sent out. A follow up article can be read here.
There would normally be nothing wrong with sending out these mailers using taxpayers dollars. I said usually, but their is some controversy [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Fish and “Wildlife†Wants to Tax Hikers? | | 2008-01-16 19:18:29 | |  This is my third and final post today on the idiocy of New Hampshire lawmakers. I have to say that my blood is beginning to boil. It was so nice having our legislators on recess, but now they have come back with a fury and are looking to make up for lost time.
 The point of [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Lawmakers to Debate a Beverage Sales Tax | | 2008-01-16 18:33:47 | | Â New Hampshire lawmakers will be debating HB 503. This is a bill that will implement a sales tax on bottled water, soft drinks, energy drinks, and baby formula. Naturally the cowards won’t call it a tax, they prefer the term “fee”, but it is a tax.
 They are using a cute little ploy to try and [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| New Hampshire Governor John Lynch to Lawmakers “No New Spending†| | 2008-01-16 18:01:30 | |  As can be read here, New Hampshire governor, John Lynch has warned New Hampshire lawmakers not to pass any new spending this year. He claims he will veto any new spending bill because New Hampshire can’t afford it. Let me be the first to say thank you Governor Lynch. Yes, thank you for finally realizing [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| Kucinich campaign pays for recount in New Hampshire | | 2008-01-16 13:23:00 | |
I'm all for counting votes accurately, and I like Dennis Kucinich, but seriously, WTF!
CONCORD, N.H. -- The state on Wednesday began the process of recounting the Democratic ballots cast in last week's primary.
Shortly before 8 a.m., the ballots that had been stored in Manchester were loaded onto hand trucks to begin the journey to Concord. The recount was requested by candidate Dennis Kucinich, who paid $27,000 to the secretary of state to begin the recount.
"The big thing, I think, is to determine if the paper ballot count, the hand count, matches the machine totals," said Emmanuel Krasner, and observer for the Kucinich campaign.
First of all, WHY? Less than two percent of the vote and, I'll "boldly" predict right now that this recount won't shift the balance more than a couple hundred votes (if that, because after all, this isn't Florida or Ohio). Second of all, I'd be interested to see how much cash the Kucinich campaign has on hand. They're not running advertisements, they're not really doing anything to get his message (which is one I actually like) out. Why not spend this money towards ads instead of trying to gain a couple of votes in New Hampshire?
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| New Hampshire to Recount Democrat Ballots Today | | 2008-01-16 05:10:55 | | Â Dennis Kucinich has asked New Hampshire for a recount of the primary ballots, he handed over the money to pay for the costs, and today the re-count will begin. I am not sure what he hopes to accomplish, below is his statement:
“Serious and credible reports, allegations, and rumors have surfaced in the past few days,” [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| Ron Paul Supporters Rioting In New Hampshire | | 2008-01-14 12:52:38 | | Ron Paul supporters have been in an uproar since last Tuesday when a New Hampshire clerk mistakenly reported that the unlikely presidential candidate had received zero votes instead of the 31 he actually acquired in that particular district. The woman reports that her and her colleagues have been harassed by Ron Paulians ever since, [...] | | By: U Suxxors | | |
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| Everyone Moved To New Hampshire on Voting Day! | | 2008-01-12 20:35:45 | | Watched the Republican debate moderated by Fox on Thursday the 10th. I was not impressed. Reminded me of some elements that I have encountered during my life, especially in grade school when a small group would try to start fights and cause dissension among the others, and invariably they were successful and managed [...] | | By: Forgot To Ask | | |
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| Taking Back America – The Truth and New Hampshire | | 2008-01-11 17:51:28 | | Velvet Revolution has offered $100,000 for a whistle blower willing to step forward and tell the truth about New Hampshire. Most of us believe there was focused and massive fraud practiced during the vote in New Hampshire last Tuesday. Now,what are we going to do about it?
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| A case of Voter Fraud in New Hampshire? | | 2008-01-10 21:24:35 | | The rumors of voter fraud are all over the internet. Predictably, Ron Paul supporters are behind much of it. The candidate whose base believes that 9/11 was an inside job will stop at nothing to prove their man was robbed. This is going to be the case with Ron Paul in every state. He will [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| After New Hampshire: Where the Republicans Go From Here | | 2008-01-10 15:15:00 | | The New Hampshire primaries have had a tremendous effect on the presidential race, as the results ensured that the major candidates will not be forced out quickly. An Obama victory would have severely wounded Clinton and forced her to enter Super Tuesday after losing Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina. A Romney victory would have eliminated McCain and made him even money against Huckabee.But this did not happen. Instead of delivering two knockout punches, New Hampshire delivered yet more jockeying and forced radical changes in political strategy. Romney, for example, has suspended his ad buys in South Carolina and is now concentrating on Michigan. And Clinton is retooling her message so that it's less about "I" and more about "we."So where do the candidates go from here? Here are my thoughts on the Republicans, whose race is as muddled as ever:John McCain is now in much better shape and has one of the easier paths to the nomination, in my estimation. McCain has the advantage of being the lone statesman in the field and he is unimpeachable when it comes to national security and Iraq. To his credit, he did not waver when it came to supporting the surge in Iraq and he can claim some independence in that he was not afraid to criticize the mission there when it wasn't going well. Independents and even moderate Democrats still view him as less conservative than he really is, and they have a lot of respect for him. This would suggest a great level of crossover appeal in a general election.McCain won the Michigan primary in 2000, so he is obviously a well known and highly regarded candidate in the state. Voters who may have been worried about his electability should have had those fears vanquished by his strong showing in New Hampshire. However, he will be going against Romney, whose father was a popular governor there. Romney is wounded, but I think he still has the inside track to victory there. McCain probably needs to place at least a close | | By: The 7-10 | | |
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| Out Of New Hampshire: The Race Is On | | 2008-01-09 11:57:14 | | Wow. What a difference a few hours can make! Going into tonight, many were writing the Clinton campaign obituary and now she is perhaps the favorite again. The Obama campaign expected to win. Heck, even the Clinton campaign expected Obama to win. All the pundits, Political Realm included, were wrong and the race was turned on its head.How did Clinton do it? In New Hampshire, Clinton dominated the female vote, easily out-pacing Obama, who had won the group in Iowa. Whether that's the result of Clinton's near tears yesterday or a more open campaign that shifted focus somewhat, we don't know. The polling we've seen over the past few days gave Obama a lead of nearly 10 points, but perhaps those numbers were simply soft. Perhaps there were a significant number of late deciders that broke for Clinton. Perhaps the questions raised about Obama's experience, record, and readiness to lead paid off for the Clinton campaign. Perhaps the voters of New Hampshire wanted this thing to turn into a race, rather than a coronation.In the end, it seems like we simply misjudged the state of the race. Obama was over-hyped out of Iowa, while everyone underestimated Clinton's superior organization, establishment backing, and appeal with voters in New Hampshire. Most suspected the vast number of independents would provide fertile soil for Obama, especially compared to Iowa. However, the number of first time participants was down tonight from Iowa and it's likely that those independents fit right into Clinton's target profile--blue collar workers. We do know one thing--the Clinton campaign won't badmouth New Hampshire as it did Iowa a few days ago.Of course, let's not get ahead of ourselves again. The narrative out of the first two contests is decidedly unclear. Barack Obama's Iowa victory was a huge shock to much of America. Will this Clinton win be as surprising? For political junkies, sure it is, but for the average voter who may not be as tuned in to this rac | | By: Political Realm | | |
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| Ad Wars: After New Hampshire | | 2008-01-09 11:38:54 | | Hillary ClintonHere's Clinton's victory speech from New Hampshire last night.Rudy GiulianiThe Giuliani campaign launched a Spanish language ad today, "Liderazgo" or "Leadership." The ad will air in Florida and focuses on a variety of conservative issues. For the translation, click here.Mike HuckabeeThe Huckabee campaign released a new Michigan ad today, "Understanding." The ad focuses on the economic turmoil in the state.The Club For Growth, which has been hounding him all cycle, launched a new attack against Huckabee in Michigan today. The ad follows their familiar formula, accusing Huckabee of raising taxes like a liberal and comparing him to Bill Clinton.John McCainHere's the first part of McCain's victory speech last night in New Hampshire. For the second part, click here.The McCain campaign also put out this online video trumpeting their win last night and comparing the candidate to Rocky. | | By: Political Realm | | |
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| Clinton and Obama: What happened in New Hampshire? | | 2008-01-09 07:49:00 | | The results of the Iowa caucuses produced an absolute stunner last week when Barack Obama beat both Hillary Clinton and John Edwards by hefty margins.Not to be outdone, the New Hampshire primaries produced an even bigger stunner when Clinton somehow turned a roughly 7-12 point deficit in most tracking polls into a 3 point victory over Obama, the candidate who had all the momentum and enthusiasm. And this all happened in about a 24-hour span.Needless to say, there will be a flurry of "Comeback Kid: Part II" stories in the media to describe Clinton's improbable victory. However, because absolutely no one predicted this, something unforeseen was at work that nobody had picked up on.What on earth happened? Here are my theories theories, listed in no particular order:1. Stopping Barack Obama was more important than supporting Hillary Clinton. You all know the story. Obama is a first-term senator who recently left the Illinois state legislature. He has a brief resume and has often been criticized for not offering much specifics. His detractors have been clamoring about this for months, but he has never really been penalized for it. Perhaps New Hampshire voters viewed their primary as the last chance to put the brakes on this freight train before it left the station? Had Obama beaten Clinton as soundly as the polls suggested he would, Clinton would have been sent into a tailspin and would have had to endure certain defeats in Nevada and South Carolina before staging Super Tuesday as her Waterloo moment. Clinton's arguments about the importance of "experience" and Obama being "risky" may have had some resonance. Obama inspires voters to look for a healer, but Clinton reminds voters we are looking for a commander in chief. If this is what happened, this is a very potent line of attack that likely weighs heavily on the minds of many people. The Iowa caucuses eliminated all of the "experience" candidates on the Democratic side and there wasn't enough time for | | By: The 7-10 | | |
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| Clinton Wins in New Hampshire, Obama: “Yes We Can!” | | 2008-01-09 02:49:44 | | Senator Clinton defied the odds and the polls on Tuesday, defeating the new frontrunner Barack Obama. The Democratic primary is far from over after Clinton’s win in New Hampshire on Tuesday. After Obama won in Iowa he was expected to win by double digits in New Hampshire based on polls following the Iowa results. The Clinton campaign has been rejuvenated following the unexpected victory in a state in which she was supposed to loose handily. Nevada is now the next contest in what has become a two way race between Obama and Clinton. Edwards told supporters in his speech on Tuesday night after finishing a distant third that he was going no where and would continue his campaign to all 50 states. South Carolina will be the next major test for the candidates. South Carolina is the first major state with a large population of minorities. More than 50 percent of registered Democrats in South Carolina are African Americans. This is in sharp contrast to New Hampshire and Iowa where the population is mostly white. In Iowa 93 percent of the voters were white. The candidate who does the best among minorities will be successful in South Carolina. Obama currently has a 13 point lead in South Carolina according to the Real Clear Politics poll average. Clinton will likely close the gap after winning in New Hampshire and Nevada where she has a 20 point lead. Barack Obama’s speech following the New Hampshire primary sounded less like a concession speech and more like a new call to America. The powerful speech took the phrase of Cesar Chavez ("Si Se Puede" or "Yes We Can") in response to the growing difficulties that we face as a nation. The speech resonated of John F. Kennedy’s, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” speech from the 1961 inauguration. Obama called on America to come together and help fix the problems that loom in this country. Some thought it might be difficult for | | By: The Mersman Political Blog | | |
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| Clinton Clinches New Hampshire | | 2008-01-09 00:42:07 | | It was an exceedingly close victory though Clinton's 39% to Obama's 37%From ABC News: Sen. Hillary Clinton has narrowly won the New Hampshire primary, becoming the first woman -- and the first-ever former first lady -- to win the first-in-the-nation contest. Clinton beat out Sen. Barack Obama, who, riding a wave of momentum from his Iowa caucus victory, battled for a close second place in the Granite State. Never thought to be a major factor in New Hampshire, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards came in a distant third in the state and will now focus his limited resources on South Carolina, where he won in 2004....The tight race has also secured Obama as a formidable opponent for Clinton, setting up what may become a bloody political battle between the two Democratic rivals going into the big-state primaries Feb. 5.Man if this had been a football game Clinton won it by a field goal. Despite the loss Obama has shown that he is capable of effectively competing with Clinton. That'll mean a lot going into South Carolina where I believe concerns about his electability originally kept him polling low. I expect SC to be a close race but I believe Obama has a good chance of pulling it off. On the republican side McCain finally had his day beating Romney by a five percent margin. My question is can McCain win anywhere else?What been odd is watching the media cover this. Both CNN and Fox news commentators called Clinton's win an upset. First they called her inevitable, then kicked her while she was down for a week after her Iowa loss, and now they are trumpeting her previously predicted win as an upset. Looks like the media only loves you when you're winning Mrs. Clinton.
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| Did Barack Obama Get The “Tom Bradley” Treatment in New Hampshire? | | 2008-01-09 00:41:38 | | videoSetActiveVideo(’videoPlayer’, ’632318’); var embeddedVideos = { ’v632062’: {videoId: ’632062’, flashId: ’Q9AJw9-uOT53CW7ZMOZh–XX7k0qC9Jh’, videoImage: ’http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2004/08/02/image633553x.jpg’, cropClass: ’resize’, videoContainerId: ’videoPlayer’, videoObjectContainer: ’videoObject’, ’title’: ’Dem Gets Call To The Big Show’, ’description’: ’A little-known Illinois state senator is now a rising star thanks to being tapped by Sen. John Kerry to give a [...] | | By: Politics and Sports | | |
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| New Hampshire Primary Results | | 2008-01-09 00:03:30 | | Turnout has reportedly been heavy, while exit polling has offered mixed signals. The results should be rolling in soon and we'll update this post as we go along.Current Results: Democrats (95% Reporting)Hillary Clinton 39Barack Obama 37John Edwards 17Bill Richardson 5Dennis Kucinich 1Current Results: Republicans (95% Reporting)John McCain 37Mitt Romney 32Mike Huckabee 11Rudy Giuliani 9Ron Paul 8Fred Thompson 1New Hampshire offers 30 delegates to the Democrats and 12 for Republicans.Notes• [7:00PM CST] CNN has called that Edwards will finish 3rd based on exit polling.• [7:06PM CST] Yes, it's early, but it's interesting to see Clinton keeping pace/leading Obama at this point.• [7:13PM CST] CNN projects McCain the Republican winner. To do so this early means that he must have won at least somewhat comfortably. A sizable margin would be a big blow for Romney, who sounded very optimistic today.• [7:16PM CST] I just finished looking at the early exit poll data and it shows a much tighter race for the Democrats than I expected. Did Obama's young voters head to the polls late or will this be tight all night long?• [8:44PM CST] Democrats are expected to set a turnout record with around 280,000. Republicans, however, are behind previous highs with around 220,000. More signs for the general election?• [9:11PM CST] I thought these numbers were supposed to come in faster than those in Iowa. What gives?• [9:19PM CST] Clinton still holds a lead and looking at the map, I'm not sure Obama can make up the ground. Even if he does, the story will still likely be Clinton as the "Comeback Kid" again. Why is Clinton so much closer tonight? She's doing much better with women and more of the independents may have gone to John McCain than expected.• [9:34PM CST] Associated Press calls race for Hillary Clinton. Wow.• [9:54PM CST] Every major news organization has now called it for Clinton. What a difference a few hours can make.• [10:06PM CST] Obama conce | | By: Political Realm | | |
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| McCain Delivers in New Hampshire | | 2008-01-08 22:01:15 | | John McCain has came back in a campaign where he had no money left and very little support, to win New Hampshire. On Tuesday night John McCain defeated Mitt Romney who came in second in the New Hampshire primary. McCain won New Hampshire in 2000 over George W. Bush and that may have helped him win on Tuesday. McCain does well among Independents and more than 45 percent of voters in New Hampshire are registered “undeclared”. Independents were key to McCain’s victory on Tuesday and the Republican race will continue to go on. Ron Paul had 8 percent of the vote almost matching Rudy Giuliani’s 9 percent. Mike Huckabee finished with 12 percent. Mitt Romney finished second with 32 percent. McCain won by 5 percent as of 10:45 PM (EST) with 37 percent. In a hilariously embarrassing defeat, Fred Thompson lost to the total number of write-in candidates. McCain 37% Romney 32% Huckabee 11% Giuliani 9% Paul 8% Total Write-ins 2% Thompson 1% Hunter 1% | | By: The Mersman Political Blog | | |
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| A.P. Calls Clinton Winner in New Hampshire | | 2008-01-08 21:42:52 | | The Associated Press has just announced that Hillary Clinton has won the Democratic primary in New Hampshire based on their projections. CNN and other sources have yet to make a call because college towns have yet to count their votes and that their are too many other votes yet to be counted throughout the state.Barack Obama trails by 6,000 votes in the state and that pattern has held over 2 and a half hours of incoming numbers. Barack Obama had led in the New Hampshire polls but they were obviously not accurate. Barack Obama will be speaking to his supporters shortly. No word on if it is a concession speech. More updates will follow as the numbers come in. | | By: The Mersman Political Blog | | |
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| Presidential Notes: New Hampshire Primer | | 2008-01-08 14:48:15 | | As New Hampshire voters head to the polls today, we hear anecdotal reports of record turnout, with the suggestion that the state may even run out of ballots. Secretary of State Bill Gardner has predicted a turnout of 500,000, but these early reports hint that the participation may exceed that estimate. High turnout is likely good news for Barack Obama and John McCain, due to the infusion of independent voters into the process. For Obama, he's hoping history would hold true with a victory today--no candidate has won both Iowa and New Hampshire and gone on to lose the nomination.On the Democratic side, polling across the board shows an impressive Iowa bounce for Obama, who we believe will take the state by double-digits. A victory for Obama, which seems assured at this point, would almost certainly propel him to sweep the early contest that follow in Nevada and South Carolina. Polling in South Carolina has shown a major swing to Obama in recent days, while there are reports today t | | By: Political Realm | | |
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| Obama Wins New Hampshire... | | 2008-01-07 23:44:19 | | Well, at least he won the midnight voting in the small village of Dixville Notch in the upper reaches of the state. This year, seventeen residents took part in the late night tradition that stretches back to the 1960 election.DemocratsBarack Obama 7John Edwards 2Bill Richardson 1RepublicansJohn McCain 4Mitt Romney 2Rudy Giuliani 1Now to see if these numbers hold up... | | By: Political Realm | | |
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| Obama Inevitable In New Hampshire? | | 2008-01-07 23:36:21 | | Barack Obama has taken his Iowa victory all the way to a double digit lead in New Hampshire and the media is ready to declare him the winner. But is Obama really the inevitable winner for Democrats in New Hampshire? There are several important things to consider when looking at the historic voting patterns of New Hampshire. First of all, New Hampshire voters do not like being told who to vote for. I heard an interesting comment by a voter on NPR today who said, “When we are given the choice between A or B, we choose D.” New Hampshire does not always agree with Iowa. In 1992 Iowa voted for Tom Harkin but New Hampshire said no. The granite state instead voted for Senator Paul Tsongas in 92. Secondly, New Hampshire Democrats now only have the choice between 4 serious candidates. Dodd and Biden may not have had much support in New Hampshire but those voters have to pick a second favorite candidate now. Richardson has been polling in the single digits but I have a feeling that he will do well Tuesday night. Richardson is not going to win but might do much better than expected. Edwards has been picking up some of Clinton’s support nationally and some in New Hampshire as well. Voters in New Hampshire may start to see that Obama and Edwards are the candidates of “change” and it could become a two way race soon enough. Thirdly, New Hampshire allows voters to register the day of the primary and still vote that day. The granite state also has an open primary where you do not have to be registered in any party in order to vote. When voters walk in to vote they choose which party they want to vote for and select their candidate from that field. Independents and crossover voters will be key for whoever wins on Tuesday. Obama does well in that category but will this be true in New Hampshire? When the media declared a clear front runner and a “presumed” winner this election cycle, we got what happened with Se | | By: The Mersman Political Blog | | |
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| New Hampshire Debate, Focus Groups, and Fair Moderators | | 2008-01-07 22:47:57 | | Concerning the debates in New Hampshire - I was already watching for Charlie Gibson to try to attack Republicans and show the Democrats to advantage, which is usual with their slant on the news. I was surprised. His was the BEST and completely unbiased debate of this political season, and I must say [...] | | By: Forgot To Ask | | |
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| New Hampshire Predictions (R/D) | | 2008-01-07 21:08:00 | | The New Hampshire primaries are tomorrow and the fact that several wildly divergent results are possible is a tremendous gift for politicos everywhere. So many candidates' fortunes depend how well people who aren't even their direct competitors perform. As everyone knows, the current front-runners are John McCain and Barack Obama. However, one of those candidates' leads is secure while the other one's is considerably more tenuous.John McCain's problem is obviously Barack Obama, and Obama's strength is what makes this primary so difficult to predict. Because independents can vote in the party primary of their choice in New Hampshire, McCain has to be worried that the very independents he needs to propel him to victory there will be gobbled up by Obama, whose support is surging. McCain still only gets lukewarm reviews from Republicans, so if he has to rely solely on intra-party support, the advantage will shift to Romney. Put another way, the more Obama racks up the score, the more likely it is that Romney will win the Republican primary.Obama's Iowa victory gave him a tremendous boost and the compressed calendar has made it virtually impossible for his opponents to blunt his momentum and reconnoiter. Barack Obama is going to win New Hampshire. The question is, by how much? Independents make up slightly more than a third of New Hampshire voters. These voters are more likely to vote for him than McCain because of an enthusiasm gap, but if Obama's support is particularly lopsided among independents, that will have several likely effects:1. Clinton and Edwards could potentially argue that Obama is more popular among independents than Democrats. Should they pursue this tack, however, Obama could easily counter that this is a reflection of his ability to transcend political lines, thus further buttressing his sense of electability and his message of national unity. Partisan Democrats might resent Obama for being more popular among independents than vot | | By: The 7-10 | | |
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| Presidential Notes: New Hampshire Prep | | 2008-01-07 17:03:17 | | Biden OutDelaware Senator Joe Biden confirmed that he was abandoning his presidential bid after a disappointing fifth place showing in the Iowa caucuses. Though Biden often won praise this cycle for his "telling it like it is" speak and strong debate showings, he failed to break out of the single digits nationally or in Iowa.Biden did not immediately offer an endorsement, but said he will return to the Senate, where he is chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Biden's decision to leave the race so quickly after the first votes were cast may have been accelerated by the fact that his Senate term also expires this year. Leaving the race now will allow Biden to shift his campaign focus to the Senate race, where it is unlikely that he will face serious opposition.Biden, who also sought the Democratic nomination in 1988, left that race before the caucuses took place partly due to accusations of plagiarism. Shortly after dropping his 1988 bid, Biden was hospitalized after sufferin | | By: Political Realm | | |
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| New Hampshire Primary Predictions | | 2008-01-07 15:24:28 | | My New Hampshire predictions:DemocratsBarack ObamaHillary ClintonJohn EdwardsThis state will be another success for Obama in a string of successes. After winning in an overwhelming majority white state (Iowa), he will take the lead here. From there, he will lose the Nevada caucus but go on to win the South Carolina primary, with the state’s large African-American population. That could potentially springboard him to Tsunami Tuesday. That is Clinton’s biggest worry.Also expect Richardson to stay in the race; he’s waiting for Hispanic Nevada.RepublicansJohn McCainMitt RomneyRudy GiulianiMike HuckabeeRon PaulThe maverick is back and Romney is down. Romney lost a decent amount of his aura in Iowa, and the few Evangelical Christians in the state will be supporting Huckabee, who in turn will not receive much of the NH vote.This is Ron Paul’s chance to shine. His nonconformist, libertarian stance in a nonconformist, libertarian state will allow him to stand out of the crowd. Could he beat Huckabee or Giuliani? Possibly.
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| Obama Takes Double Digit Lead in New Hampshire | | 2008-01-06 23:51:06 | | The Iowa “bump” is officially in. Only 5 days separate the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary and the impact on the polls from Iowa was just as large. Barack Obama who was tied with Hillary Clinton in a poll that was released on Saturday, now leads by 10 points according to the latest poll. A new CNN/WMUR poll conducted on Saturday through Sunday, found that 39 percent of likely voters in New Hampshire supported Barack Obama while 29 percent supported Hillary Clinton. John Edwards previously had 20 percent but dropped to 16 percent in the new poll. Second prize in Iowa apparently hurts you in New Hampshire. Edwards defeated Hillary Clinton in Iowa but lost as many points as Clinton did in the new poll. A win in New Hampshire for Obama could carry him all the way to the nomination. South Carolina is only 16 days after New Hampshire and the momentum could be enough to win there. According to the current Real Clear Politics poll average, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are in a statistical tie in South Carolina. A victory in New Hampshire would show voters in South Carolina that he can beat the Republicans in November. | | By: The Mersman Political Blog | | |
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