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NH-01: You Break It, You Bought It

by: Dean Barker

Wed Jul 08, 2009 at 15:49:24 PM EDT
Oh well. We tried to explain that the Mayor is less than a top-tier candidate, and that Carol is not a fluke, but the NRCC never listens to us.

Sorry guys. You break it, you bought it!  WaPo:

It's worth noting amid this good news for Republicans that recruiting successes are not all they are often cracked up to be. Take Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta, for example, who, after being touted by national Republicans in his race to take on Rep. Carol Shea Porter has run into problems due to his involvement in a bar fight. Not good.
Well, there's always Bob Bestani, I guess.
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Missed opportunities. (4.00 / 2)
Glad they've noticed, but this is the kind of shallow analysis one would expect from someone who has to cover so many districts that they can't be expected to have a good grasp on each one.  Congressional districts are big, and the races are complicated.  Nobody knows everything there is to know about every Congressional race, or even every competitive one.  That's why national media doesn't sufficiently understand Frank Guinta's and Carol Shea-Porter's respective relationships with the community.  

Most districts don't have a localized member of the national punditry echo chamber, but this one does.  Jennifer Donahue.  How often do you see the director of the [insert any other state] Institute of Politics on a primetime cable news panel?  Rarely, if ever.  But as BHers have seen time and time again, the national media comes to Donahue for a New Hampshire perspective, and she feeds them back a national media perspective--occasionally with the Manchester skyline in the background.  So close, yet so far.

During the Presidential primary, a great deal of attention was paid to the goings on here at BH and other local media, old and new, by the national media.  But on our other races, it seems they only skim the Cook report.  Honestly, is there anything easier in writing about anything happening in New Hampshire politics than quoting Dean? I submit that there is not.

Anyway, this is why you can't expect WaPo to have insightful coverage of NH-01.

Or maybe because the WaPo is a sucky right-wing rag (0.00 / 0)
with no journalistic ethics at all.
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Interesting (0.00 / 0)
I had an urge to defend them. Maybe I'm ready to take the Post back.

Nah.

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But...but... (0.00 / 0)
Its founder was from New Hampshire!
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