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WSJ's Love Letter to Sununu, Conveniently Summarized

by: Dean Barker

Sat Sep 13, 2008 at 07:43:56 AM EDT


So that you don't have to plow through the love letter editorial dressed as interview journalism, a summary:
* John Sununu wears sweaters and has a folksy manner, so it's easy to forget he votes with Bush 90% of the time to protect Big Oil & Big Pharma, prolong the Iraq war, etc. etc...

* John McCain thinks John Sununu is the Smartest Man in the Senate.  So smart that, like Sarah Palin, he refuses to acknowledge the influence of humans on climate change.

* Ignore all the data about our shifting state demographics, please. We have an election to keep close.

Dean Barker :: WSJ's Love Letter to Sununu, Conveniently Summarized
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I know some women who (4.00 / 1)
might suggest that having "the smartest man in the Senate" is aiming too low when we could instead have a smart woman...

A number of Senators of both genders and parties come to mind... (0.00 / 0)
...who are better deserving of that title.

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Its for fundraising (4.00 / 3)
Potential Sununu donors needed to be given something positive to open up their checkbooks.

But even if we don't think it is grounded in reality it reminds us how much work each of us need to do in the coming weeks. The is a ground game folks, I implore you to get involved.

Locate the nearest office to you: www.nhdp.org


What, are the fishing trips to Kenai Alaska off this year? (0.00 / 0)
Won't Ted and the oil company lobbyists miss Norm Coleman and John E?

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No, they will not. (4.00 / 1)
Four hundred fifty million dollars buys a lot of friends.

Stevens isn't the only one taking that amount of money--but the others aren't on trial for seven counts of corruption.


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Very, very astute point. (0.00 / 0)
Potential Sununu donors needed to be given something positive to open up their checkbooks.

We are getting to the point where the big dollars will decide to cut losses in some places and keep on giving in others.

This is designed to tell the out-of-state investor class not to give up on their yankee SS raider.

Wonder if Sununu's fired now.


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drives me crazy (4.00 / 3)
that sununu persists on saying that he was the underdog in 2002 and managed this sensational come from behind victory. check out unh polling from 2002. he was always ahead except for a couple of weeks in october when shaheen was up by a statistically insignificant couple of points.

http://www.unh.edu/survey-cent...

He was also always ahead of Bob Smith, too.  

I'm a Jeanne Shaheen friend and staffer.


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