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Shea-Porter told Roll Call last week that she is considering another bid. And the New Hampshire Democratic Party said Kuster has already decided to run again.
Just want to point out that favorite son status was not extended to Charlie in his (and my) own home town.
Charlie Bass - 1069
Annie Kuster - 1633
It's just that people know who's who around here.
By the way, Paul beat Kelly here by a wide margin as well.
I'm proud of how we voted, and if it wasn't for Greenville and (mostly) New Ipswich, our four representatives in Hillsborough 3 would all be blue as well. As it was, they all lost by a fairly narrow margin, less than 100 votes in one case.
Tonight, the Super Secret Project, best known for their song "Granite State of Mind" is going to be holding a concert/rally for Annie Kuster beginning at Keene State at 9:30pm in the student center! This event is free and open to the public.
Instead of the usual .pdf, Pindell has it behind a paywall, which is kind of a bummer. (FWIW, I will paste the email announcement of the poll in full below the fold.)
CD1:
Carol Shea-Porter: 39%
Frank Guinta: 46%
Other: 5%
Undecided: 12%
Guinta remains under 50%, undecideds/"others" are high, Carol is closing the gap, and, per Pindell, among independent/undeclared voters, "Two weeks ago Shea-Porter trailed by 10 to her Republican opponent Frank Guinta, now she trails by just 1 percentage point."
In this poll, only 36 respondents identified as between 18 to 34 years of age. 167 are identified as Democrats, 53 as independents, and 199 as Republicans.
CD2:
Annie Kuster: 43%
Charlie Bass: 40%
Other: 6%
Undecided: 11%
In this poll, only 32 respondents identified as between 18 to 34 years of age. 194 are identified as Democrats, 60 as independents, and 178 as Republicans.
Spread the word - we can and we will keep these two house seats so long as we empty the tank and give it everything we have. Leave no stone unturned. Call your neighbors and friends. Get your neighbors and friends to call their neighbors and friends. Get out that vote!
GOTV! GOTV! GOTV! GOTV! GOTV! GOTV! GOTV! GOTV! GOTV! GOTV!
Call NHDP at 603-225-6899 to find out how to help.
Call the Shea-Porter campaign at 603-531-9653 to find out how to help.
Call the Kuster campaign at 603-230-2415 to find out how to help. GOTV! GOTV! GOTV! GOTV! GOTV! GOTV! GOTV! GOTV! GOTV! GOTV!
And also as before, I'm gonna deposit my insta-reax via some twitterings, but don't let that stop you from registering your cheers and laments here.
Two more things:
1) Tomorrow look for a press conference from Annie's campaign about the former Bass supporters who have joined our cause.
2) Click here for critical GOTV opportunities. I noticed today on 538 that Nate Silver has this as the ONLY House race in the country split evenly at 50%-50%. As JonnyB said best, NH-02 leans turnout. So every bit of GOTV that you can do matters.
I said this before about the pay raise ad, but it bears repeating: pairing the truth about Bass' record up front with a positive message at the end about Annie's priorities is in my view incredibly effective TeeVee.
Full release from Team Kuster below the fold, including a fact sheet on Bass' outsourcing votes and Annie's plan.
Colin announced Annie Kuster's barnstorming tour of 30 diners in 30 days a little while ago.
Says Annie:
"Washington has put politics first and people last for far too long, and I think it's time for a new approach - one that always focuses on what's best for the people of New Hampshire," said Kuster.
"So in the final month of this campaign, I am spending my time criss-crossing our state and sitting down with voters to talk with them about how we can create jobs, fix Washington, and put people back to work."
Remember POTUS wannabe George Pataki's sloppy ad against Annie Kuster (and also Carol Shea-Porter)? Fact Check took a look at them today and demolished its bogus claims:
The ad makes several false and unsubstantiated claims:
* It claims that the law creates "longer waits in doctors' offices" and that "your right to keep your own doctor may be taken away." The group says those claims are about a Medicare payment program that the law calls for establishing. But it points to an opinion piece that doesn't make those claims at all. The author tells us it's "bogus" to cite his article as support for the ad.
* The ad falsely calls the health care law "government-run health care." The truth is that - while the legislation will expand regulation of the insurance industry - it builds on our current private health care system and expands business for private insurers.
* The ad claims "costs will go up," when, in fact, premium costs for most Americans are predicted to stay the same or decrease slightly from where they normally would be. And for many others, federal subsidies will offset premium increases.
But read the whole thing - it's a takedown of epic proportions.
Of course, the sad thing is that most people will see these ads, yet never know they are full of lies. Let's make sure we remind Pataki of this when he comes a-knockin' on our primary doors.
"America was doing pretty well in January of 2008."
America, the bad new days:
"I feel America's being ruined."
Here's what state house candidate John R. White has to say about the Good Old Days of the Bush years:
Of course, the person running for Congress who hasn't spent twelve years in DC during the Good Old Days, and who isn't creating Two Americas is coming to a diner near you and wanting to hear from voices from all parties and perspectives.
(Great day for it... would have been there, but have all 3 kids to myself this weekend. - promoted by Mike Hoefer)
I did my first canvassing of the season today out of the joint Democratic campaign office in Keene. Not many people home at midday on a beautiful Saturday, but I talked to some and left a lot of Hodes and Kuster lit. Central Keene is pretty heavily covered with Kuster lawn signs, and the Kuster staff has a running start from the primary campaign. (I had read on this site about their top-notch grassroots organization, and had that opinion confirmed today.)
Today there were not the dozens or even hundreds of canvassers that showed up for Obama every Saturday in the fall of 2008. If you can do something about that, I wish you would. I volunteered through kusterforcongress.com and a staffer phoned me within a few days and got me signed up to canvass today. They will be out every Saturday and Sunday for the rest of the campaign. If you are in SW New Hampshire or the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, for example, this is your best chance to influence very close races for both the US Senate and US House, and get two very good people representing New Hampshire.
Canvassing is good exercise, more fun than phonebanking, and a key way to impress upon a large number of people that there is an important election coming up and that the Democrats are collectively fired up about it. I hope to see you out there.
Remember when the local GOP fooled the press a little while back about our house seats being abandoned by the DCCC? Well, looky here:
Targeting key battleground districts in the wake of last week's primaries, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has added two candidates to its Red to Blue program.
According to announcements that will be released Monday, Ann McLane Kuster, of New Hampshire's Second District, and Bill Keating, of Massachusetts' 10th, will be the beneficiaries of additional "financial, communications, grassroots, and strategic support" that the program offers.
That's on top of the roughly million and a half the DCCC reserved for both house districts last summer.
And here's today's moment of absurdity: both Guinta and Bass have been named to the "Young Guns" NRCC program.
Six-term Washington insider Congressman Bass, who has been around so long he was once defeated by his current opponent's mother, is a "Young Gun." And so is Guinta, who was previously a Young Gun until his travails forced them to drop him until a nominee was named. Hilarious.
