The smoke is still in the air from the NH House elections yesterday. While a number of Districts have been 100% counted, not all of those candidates with the most votes in those Districts have been “blessed” yet with the “Winner’s Checkmark”. There are still a number of Districts for which NO results have yet been logged and announced (including mine). But one thing is for sure, the Speaker of the House race is now wide open.
Just a quick thought here:
- Current Speaker Sherm Packard seems to have won his race.
- Former Speaker Gene Chandler seems to have won his race
- A couple/few of “dark horses” (who shall remain nameless – I keep my silence when asked to do so as integrity matters) who might have been angling for a step up? Some are now being led back to the paddock as it looks like they lost. A few are still in the race. Makes life interesting.
At the time of the FIRST draft of this, the only one left standing was Jason Osborne. He is currently the Majority Leader in the House and there’s been a lot of scuttlebutt that he might be angling for the position. That FIRST draft had “Right now, it seems that (if he wants it), the path to that gavel has been cleared for him by his District’s voters (he came in first) and the voters in his potential opponents’ Districts as well”. Well, that isn’t the case anymore.
So, suddenly, so still an amount of “palace intrigue” is still in play. And remember, it STILL isn’t clear if the Republicans have kept a majority in the House yet. But I needed to get this written down.
Sidenote: This is now the THIRD time I’ve had to rewrite this post as just as I finish, data gets updated. So who knows, I may have to redo this again (and eat crow).
However, take this all as just as spitballing by me as the results aren’t all in and given that the broom swept a number of folks away just MIGHT have others looking into their bathroom mirrors thinking:
*I* could be the next Speaker, right?
Heh!
And oh, the results may certainly roil the waters for the Secretary of State Race, too. After all, Scanlon was elevated to his new position and now he has to stand for election. My quick thought is that a Republican majority House (and it’s not clear that exists yet) will give him a term to really prove himself.
If the Democrats have taken it, obviously, it could be a whole ‘nother ballgame.
