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Right Side Up: The Primary

August 12, 2026 Right Side Up

This week on Right Side Up, Alison and Mike discuss the primary election, the data center bill, small-town local events, fair season, and the Vermont Promise. [Related: VDC: Vermont GOP Plan Promises Tax Relief, Better Roads, More Housing, and Bail Reform] Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video does not load. Authors’ … Read more

PAGE: Across Lake Champlain, MAGA Candidate Wins Primary

June 28, 2026June 28, 2026 Guy Page

…punishes the press. What a difference a lake makes. In Vermont, on Lake Champlain’s eastern shore, any alignment with President Donald Trump is considered a kiss of death for any candidates, barring perhaps those running in a small handful of ‘red’ districts on the electoral map. But across Lake Champlain in upstate New York, President … Read more

SMITH: My Decision To Primary Howard Pearl

June 13, 2026 Julie Smith

Bad actors sadly exist everywhere, even in institutions we want to think are exempt. Government is not one of those institutions, but we’d like to think that there’s a higher standard for Team Red in all government bodies, and we’re repeatedly disappointed. Let’s focus on our state legislature and note that the Senate is much … Read more

Scott Endorses Haley After Equivocating On Divisive Speech

March 5, 2024 Aaron Warner

Sundays are usually a day of rest and a time to, if one uses it to reflect on the goodness of God, escape the ubiquitous bad-mouthing of our fellow citizens. Today in the progressive strong-hold of South Burlington Nikki Haley was visiting Vermonters willing to entertain the idea she still has a chance against Republican juggernaut Donald Trump.

Breaking – SCOTUS Rules 9-0: Colorado Can’t Remove Trump From The Ballot

March 4, 2024 Steve MacDonald

At least a few of the Several States, all run by political partisans exercising political will, attempted to keep a candidate for the office of President from appearing on an opposing (private) party primary ballot. The candidate, Donald Trump, asked the Supreme Court to review Colorado’s effort, and they have.

Chuck Morse’s Only Chance To Mass Up Kelly’s Coronation

February 15, 2024 Ed Mosca

The NHGOP gubernatorial primary looks more like a coronation … of Kelly Ayotte … than a primary. Ayotte regularly rolls out endorsements from establishment-officeholders and focuses on the Democrats, while Chuck Morse runs the traditional NHGOP-establishmentarian lose-gracefully campaign.

Nevada Primary “None of These Candidates” Beats Nikki Haley by Nearly 30 points

February 7, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Nevada has a Primary and a Caucus, and they make you choose. Nikki Haley chose the Primary (no delegates are awarded, so how dumb is that). Trump chose the Caucus, the results of which are still two days away. But we know who won Tuesday’s Primary. Nobody.

There Is No Longer Any Rationale For The GOP Presidential Primary

November 27, 2023 Ed Mosca

“Trump can’t win! He can’t win!” “Trump will drag all Republicans down to defeat!” “Trump is the only Republican who can’t beat Biden!” Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We’ve had this pablum flung at us for years. And it is categorically FALSE.

One -Third Of “Republicans” In New Hampshire Aren’t Even Republicans

November 19, 2023 Ed Mosca

What would be the difference between a Nikki Haley or Chris Christie presidency and a Biden presidency? Nothing positive IF you are an actual Republican. Haley/Christie would pour even more money (that we don’t have) into that military-industrial feed trough known as the War in Ukraine.

New Hampshire is NOT ‘Defying’ The DNC and Joe Biden …

November 16, 2023November 16, 2023 Steve MacDonald

I don’t expect anyone at CBS to know how this works, but the story annoys me. It is clickbait from people in a business that pretends to know more than our knuckle-dragging morons (and their bloggers) about the NH primary and claims that “we” are defying Joe Biden. And it’s not just CBS.

How DeSantis Lost The New Hampshire Primary … And What He Needs To Do Next

September 24, 2023 Ed Mosca

Let’s start with what DeSantis needs to do next. Abandon New Hampshire … IMMEDIATELY. And say why … BECAUSE NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICANS ARE NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF REPUBLICANS NATIONALLY; they are much more liberal than Republicans nationally, and I am NOT a good fit. Then focus on Iowa and South Carolina … reducing expectations for both, AND … fix his dysfunctional campaign.

DNC Gives NH Dems Another Yard of Rope to Rhetorically Hang Themselves

September 15, 2023 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire Democrats had a decade to pretend to be diverse, but they kept electing pasty white members to Congress, and the so-called party of “diversity” (theirs) took away their plumb primary. The DC machine keeps giving them extensions to solve an unsolvable problem.

Not The Answer This NH-Communist Wanted To Hear … Bobby Kennedy On “Weapons Of Mass Destruction”

June 25, 2023 Ed Mosca

Some Communist in the audience of a WMUR political show asked Bobby Kennedy what he was going to do about “weapons of mass destruction” … her term for semi-automatic firearms. The answer she got, I suspect, was NOT what she was expecting.

An Open Letter To Ron DeSantis … Some Things You Should Know About Woke Hampshire

March 17, 2023 Ed Mosca

Governor DeSantis, I understand that you will visit Woke Hampshire on April 14th to headline the NHGOP’s premier fundraiser, the Amos Tuck Dinner. There are a few things about Woke Hampshire that you should know.

The MYTH That The GOP Has A Majority In The New Hampshire House

February 10, 2023February 10, 2023 Ed Mosca

A few comments on the post from Cornerstone. First, if it wasn’t Testerman, it would have been some other GOP-Wokester who sided with the Democrats to maintain grooming in New Hampshire schools. Of course, Testerman should be called out as a faux-Republican, but the bigger picture is that the NHGOP really is NOT that GOP … Read more

Nikki Who? … The Sun-Princess Cometh

February 4, 2023 Ed Mosca

Remember Nikki Haley? Governor of South Carolina, who left that gig to be Trump’s United Nations Ambassador, who left that gig after only two years. Well … Nikki is planning to announce on February 15th that she is running for President. So … it’s time for a nickname for Nikki. Like New Hampshire’s Sun-King Chris … Read more

The Right Thing For Trump To Do … Is To Run

February 2, 2023 Ed Mosca

I want the messiest, meanest, most arduous Presidential primary imaginable … because I want, and the GOP needs if it is going to win in 2024, a political-killer for the nominee. The idea that … THAT’S JUST HELPING THE DEMOCRATS, IF WE TEAR EACH OTHER APART …is, at best, hopelessly naive.

Democrats, Primaries, and Identity Politics

December 23, 2022 Michael Moffett

In a Concord Monitor Op-Ed published on July 5, 2021, I explained why the Democrats were likely to eschew New Hampshire’s First in the Nation (FITN) Primary due to identity politics.

It was an easy prediction.

Cry Harder Grifters

December 2, 2022 Ed Mosca

Joe Biden … America’s figurehead/imposter President …has weighed in on the Democrat Presidential primary. He wants South Carolina to go first. And the political-grifters in New Hampshire … the consultants, insiders, masterminds, blah, blah, blah … are melting down over the thought of losing all the money and attention FITN brings: The delicious irony … Read more

Out-Of-State Dartmouth Students Who Tried To Steal NH House Seats … Denied

September 15, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Miles Brown (CT) and Nicolas Macri (TX) are out-of-state students attending Dartmouth College. They also signed up to run for one of four NH House seats in Grafton County Dist. 12. With six candidates vying for those four seats, Democrats decided to kick the Dartmouth kids to the curb.