New Hampshire
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9:27 a.m.
John DiStaso : TAG TEAM. In 2007 and 2008, former ambassador and Democratic National Committeeman Terry Shumaker backed Hillary Clinton for President, while former state Democratic Chair Ned Helms backed Barack Obama. ...In an "open letter to New Hampshire Democrats" to be released before the end of the week, Helms and Shumaker say Kuster will bring "a new approach" to Washington. They said she...
Blue Hampshire - 4:42 a.m. - 2 clicks 
It occurred to me, while reading yet another expose of how absurdly phony Sarah Palin is , just how lucky we are to have Carol Shea-Porter in office. You can agree with Carol or disagree with her. But there isn't a mountain of gold high enough that can purchase the kind of credibility she has. Even the wingnuts who plot day and night to come up with phony hit jobs on her know this. Addi...
Blue Hampshire - 3:46 a.m.
DonutGate goes deeper : "The John Stephen campaign has accepted $33,058 in contributions - including $23,000 from the Dunkin' Donuts franchises in Massachusetts and Connecticut - that appear to be exceed those allowed under state finance law and previous interpretation of that law," said Pamela Walsh, campaign manager for NH for John Lynch. "We are asking the Attorney General to quickly clarify ...
Blue Hampshire - Wed 4:40 p.m. - 3 clicks
Kids in Keene are off to school today. My youngest is starts to Kindergarten, joining his sisters who are entering 3rd and 5th grade at Symonds School. I've been thinking a lot about our Democratic Majority and why it matters. With back-to-school on my mind, let's try to run down some of the things we have accomplished over the past 4 years with our Democratic Majority: House Bill 1523 will...
Blue Hampshire - Wed 9:40 a.m.
The majority of New Hampshire voters firmly support Roe v. Wade, but you'd never know it from the rhetoric in the Republican primary for the 1st District Congressional seat. As the battle between Frank Guinta and Sean Mahoney goes down to the wire, both candidates are pandering to the party's radical right by accusing their opponent of being insufficiently pro-life. The initial salvos...
Blue Hampshire - Wed 4:43 a.m. - 4 clicks
It's unanimous : On economic issues, all of the candidates agreed they would repeal any remaining money from the federal stimulus package. OK then : President Obama's much-maligned economic stimulus package added as many as 3.3 million jobs to the economy during the second quarter of this year, and may have prevented the nation from lapsing back into recession, according to a report released Tu...
Blue Hampshire - Wed 3:28 a.m.
Didn't see this coming : One moment of dissent for Lamontagne came when the candidates were asked about the war in Iraq. Lamontagne, alone among the candidates, said he believed going into Iraq was a mistake. "We went on a false premise" that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, he said. Thank you, Mr. Lamontagne, for not sweeping the biggest foreign policy mistake of my lifetime under the rug....
Blue Hampshire - Wed 3:00 a.m.
As I write this, Annie is on her way back home - to her first night at home in the past 4 days - and I thought I'd share a glimpse into how hard she is campaigning because I think it tells something about what kind of a congresswoman she will be. Saturday morning, Annie woke up and drove to Nashua to kick-off a volunteer canvass and spend a few hours going door-to-door, talking with Democratic v...
Blue Hampshire - Tue 7:22 p.m. - 5 clicks
It's hard for me to write this, because you will probably think, of course you want us to support Jennifer Daler for state house in Hillsborough-04! But believe me when I tell you it is much more than that. Because who here wouldn't be enthusiastic about a state house candidate running on the following: My goals are to create affordable, accessible, quality health care, protect the environmen...
Blue Hampshire - Tue 5:49 p.m.
Perhaps a hundred thousand, perhaps more, lives ended prematurely. Many more wounded. Millions displaced. All for a country that hadn't attacked us, had no WMD, had no connection to 9/11. Below the fold, a really quite moving speech by the man who ended what never should have begun. Remarks of President Barack Obama - As Prepared for Delivery Oval Office Address on Iraq Washi...
Blue Hampshire - Tue 5:49 p.m.
Start: 09/02/2010 - 18:00 End: 09/02/2010 - 19:30 Timezone: Etc/GMT-5 Please join Paul Hodes Candidate for U.S. Senate For a Wake Up Washington Tour Community Supper! Where: American Legion Post 7 Phillips Room 94 Eastern Avenue, Rochester When: Thursday, September 2nd 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. ...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Tue 10:25 a.m. - 7 clicks
Vote for John Stephen, and he'll save the state of New Hampshire billions and trillions of dollars nothing : Stephen says the state can save hundreds of millions of dollars by converting its Medicaid program into a "managed care" system, one that emphasizes preventive care for its recipients. Stephen refers to a report prepared by the insurance company Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield in making hi...
Blue Hampshire - Tue 3:41 a.m. - 8 clicks
They're too chicken to go after Boomers and seniors - they know it'll cost them votes. Instead, New Hampshire Republican candidates for federal office are gunning to loot Gen X-ers and Millenials and the disabled, who they think are paying less attention. Frank Guinta : When it comes to reforming Social Security and other programs, he would consider creating personal accounts and increasin...
Blue Hampshire - Mon 6:20 p.m. - 9 clicks
Newsweek (h/t Markos ): Taliban officials know it's sacrilegious to hope a mosque will not be built, but that's exactly what they're wishing for: the success of the fiery campaign to block the proposed Islamic cultural center and prayer room near the site of the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan. "By preventing this mosque from being built, America is doing us a big favor," Taliban operative Zabih...
Blue Hampshire - Mon 4:24 p.m.
SOURCE: Daily Kos by gjohnsit [ Subscribe ] Mon Aug 30, 2010 at 09:48:24 AM PDT "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." - Abraham Lincoln Wall Street has a problem. read more ...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Mon 2:25 p.m.
Legacy politician and former six-termer Charles Bass puts on his best Alan Simpson : For example, he said there are tens of thousands of people receiving Social Security disability checks because they simply lost the will to work. The cases are never reviewed, he noted. So now we have descended to demonizing the disabled in an effort to get elected and once again regularly collect checks paid for...
Blue Hampshire - Mon 8:21 a.m. - 10 clicks
On the fifth anniversary of hurricane Katrina, President Barack Obama visited New Orleans. It's very possible that he's unaware that our own Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter was moved to attempt a run for Congress as a direct result of witnessing the incompetent federal response to that disaster. Having gone to New Orleans to volunteer in the immediate recovery effort, she soon realize...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Sun 4:20 p.m.
SOURCE: Truthout. by: Robert Reich | Republicans are calling the Democrat's proposal to end the Bush tax cuts on the richest 3 percent a "tax increase," and demagoging that it will hurt the economy and small business. This is baloney, to put it politely. Let me count the ways: Bush's ten-year tax cut was designed to end this year, so it's not a tax increase. Ending i...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Sun 5:28 a.m.
Start: 09/18/2010 - 10:00 End: 09/18/2010 - 22:00 Timezone: Etc/GMT-5 Saturday, September 18th, 10:00 AM to 12:00 noon, a film presentation of “The Day After Peace” , produced by Jeremy Gilley, founder of the International Day of Peace, at the Exeter Public library, Chestnut Street, Exeter, NH. “The Day After Peace” documents Gilley’s work culminating in a humanitarian ...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Sat 6:49 a.m.
SOURCE: BLACKBOXVOTING.ORG - This is the most brutal voter disenfranchisement and election tampering and case we have witnessed yet. See detailed press release below for just a few of the specifics uncovered to date. On Aug. 12 2010, at the behest of several local individual citizens, Black Box Voting founder Bev Harris and Florida Fair Elections Coalition (FFEC)...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Thu 2:25 p.m. - 2 clicks
For Immediate Release CONCORD — Gov. John Lynch today announced that five more New Hampshire companies have received Job Training grants in the month of August. Job Training grants are aimed at keeping good jobs in New Hampshire by helping companies train their workers with new skills to compete in a changing economy. Gov. Lynch made it a priority to reinstate the Job Training Fund, whi...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Aug 25 - 5 clicks
SOURCE: NewsDissector by Danny Schechter Aren't job losses and foreclosures as important as a "Ground Zero Mosque" (which isn't a mosque, and hasn't been built and wouldn't be at ground zero?) We know we live in hard times that are on the verge of getting harder with 500,000 new claims for unemployment last week, a recent record. The stock market m...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Aug 25 - 2 clicks
SOURCE: The New Yorker Jane Mayer On May 17th, a black-tie audience at the Metropolitan Opera House applauded as a tall, jovial-looking billionaire took the stage. It was the seventieth annual spring gala of American Ballet Theatre, and David H. Koch was being celebrated for his generosity as a member of the board of trustees; he had recently donated $2.5 million toward the company...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Aug 25 - 2 clicks
SOURCE: BBC Hari Prasad, a researcher in India who obtained an electronic voting machine and demonstrated how it can be tampered with has been arrested. His colleague, Alex Halderman joins Digital Planet to discuss what lies behind the arrest. read more ...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Aug 25
Welcome, Fivethirtyeight readers -- Three weeks ago, we discussed in this space the importance of President Obama's approval rating to the upcoming congressional races in the Granite State. Democrats were hoping that Obama's numbers would remain on an even keel......
Granite Prof - Aug 3
Gov. John Lynch's net approval, 2010 vs. Gov. Craig Benson's, 2004: And here are Lynch's disapproval numbers, again vs. Benson's in 2004: (All data from UNH Granite State Poll.)...
Granite Prof - Aug 1 - 3 clicks
What's striking (and suspicious) about the narrative regarding the Sarah Palin endorsement of Kelly Ayotte is its dea ex machina quality. For hopeful Democrats, Palin's appearance is the game-changer that suddenly solves "a seemingly inextricable problem." In this case, the......
Granite Prof - Jul 29 - 3 clicks
The new UNH Granite State poll, conducted by my colleague Andrew Smith, provides little support for the notion that Sarah Palin's endorsement last week had some sort of immediate, Kryptonite-like effect on GOP Senate candidate Kelly Ayotte. But it does......
Granite Prof - Jul 29 - 4 clicks
Unlike PPP, whose survey data spawned breathless Big Media speculation of a New Hampshire where Sarah Palin is the center of the universe, the newest UNH Granite State poll (conducted by my colleague Andy Smith) appears to follow known laws......
Granite Prof - Jul 28 - 6 clicks
Yesterday's Public Policy Polling survey release on the New Hampshire Senate race inspired joy and exaltation among Democrats yesterday. The meme: Sarah Palin's endorsement of Kelly Ayotte last week has severely damaged her standing among moderate voters. Her net favorability......
Granite Prof - Jul 28 - 7 clicks
