Well, we stayed late at the Frank Guinta Victory Party at Murphy’s last night – almost too late; even stopping at 1am to slurp down a bottle of Mtn Dew was barely enough to get home safely with eyes mostly wide open.
Still dunno about US Senate with less than 1,000 votes between Kelly and Ovide. To tell you the truth, that was not the race I expected – I did not have Jim Bender trailing the field as badly as he did. He certainly improved over the course of the campaign – much improved, actually, and I thought that the outright nastiness produced by the Binnie campaign would have ended HIM up in 4th way behind instead of Jim.
Thus, at this point, it is still the Grassroots vs the Establishment candidate to claim victory.
As I said for the NH CD-1 race:
Sean is now Real Sorry Sean…..get out the butter, he’s toast. I will have to admit, that butter was real expensive – $1,000,000 worth….
Got in late, decided to play to his strength (money, money, money; negative Pat Hynse and crew), and well, blew a $1,000,000 all for naught. I AM surprised at the showing the Rich Ashooh made – it was very close at times and he turned out to the "cruise missle frigate" that I had figured for Jim in the Senate race. In any case, congrats to Frank and I hope Carol Shea-Porter has her bills all in order as she’s about to find out what Obamaconomics is all about -from the other side of the very, thin coin of the unemployment line. Just desserts, IMHO.
And I agree with Steve in NH CD-2 – Bob Guida made every NH Conservative’s worst political nightmare come true last night – he played the spoiler; his vote total would have put Jennifer Horn over the top. So, we get a squish splitting the difference between two Conservatives; the only solace IS that against a flaming moonbat Progressive, McKluster, he’ll actually look decent.
Looks like newcomer (and GraniteGrok endorsed) Jeanie Forrester has kept Fran Wendelboe‘s "higher office losing streak" alive – a steel core wrapped in a oh-so-soft velvet glove and a "I’m gonna talk to everyone" attitude prevailed for her in NH Senate District 2!
And Jim Forsythe, former Chair of the NHRLC, Phd, former Air Force pilot, college lecturer, and political philosophiser (ok, I’m still tired and under-Mtn Dew’d – I’m allow to make up some words now and then) AND indefatigable campaigner won handily over George Hurt in NH Senate District 4.
TMEW’s and my heart does go out to Jack Kimball – for all of the work that he has put into this campaign, it did hurt to see the spread between he and John Stephen in the Governor race. He always stayed positive and on message, and has turned out to be a charismatic public speaker. I have an idea that Jack, while not having been successful in trying to earn the brass ring of the Corner Office, is not finished in NH Politics. It is hard, first time out, to go for such a top ticket office with a shoestring budget. While doing well in each debate held, it shows that $$ is, indeed, the mother’s milk of politics and I believe that’s what kept his candidacy short-lived.
Well, a couple days to rest up – then it’s on for yet another round.
It’s gonna be a long day at work today….not home until early this AM and then one of the GrokDogs started whining way too soon that he had to go out…I’m gonna end up making Pepsi stock go up in price again…where’s that Dew….
