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It's subscription-only in Roll Call, but Swing State Project has the all-important numbers:
Carol Shea-Porter: 50 Jeb Bradley: 41
Bob Kingsbury (L): 3
Peter Bearse (I): 3
(MoE: ±4%)
Huzzah! From Roll Call:
Until the nation's economic crisis leapt to the forefront a few weeks ago, New Hampshire seemed up for grabs politically this fall, and Shea-Porter was believed to be in trouble. But in a district that Bush won by 3 points in 2004, Obama is now leading by 7 points, according to SurveyUSA. That has helped stabilize Shea-Porter, who toppled Bradley by 2 points two years ago despite being outspent more than 3-1.
Bush's approval rating in the district was a dismal 25 percent; only 15 percent of those surveyed approved of Congress' job performance.
* How fitting, that on the fifth anniversary of the phone jamming crime, Jeanne Shaheen is beating John Sununu in the latest Survey USA via Roll Call poll by double digits (h/t SSP, sample size around 650, w/ MoE from 3.8-4.0%):
Jeanne Shaheen (D): 53
John Sununu (R-inc): 42
Undecided: 5
Poetic justice, don't you think? And look who's holding the Sprinter to under 50%:
Jay Buckey (D): 36
John Sununu (R-inc): 49
Undecided: 16
* Speaking of Sununu's criminal anniversary, the NHDP held a conference call today on the ongoing, unanswered questions surrounding that assault on Democracy. Said Kathy Sullivan on the DoJ slow-walk (sorry, no linky yet):
"So, I want to know why was the Justice Department dragging its' feet? Who were they talking to? Were they getting instructions from someone?"
Paul Twomey chimed in on the importance of Congressional investigations:
In the civil case, we went as far as we could go with it. As I said, we don't have the right to put people in front of a grand jury, we don't have the right to make people testify to grant them immunity, that's something that Congress can do and the Department of Justice can do. It appears the Department of Justice isn't going to do its job so we're going to rely on Congress and the Congressional Committees to protect the people."
* Jeanne Shaheen now has a campaign manager, Bill Hyers. Bill ran Kirsten Gillibrand's successful upset victory in the House last year, and "also managed the come-from-behind victory of Michael Nutter for Mayor of Philadelphia in 2007," according to the press release. And if that isn't a good enough pedigree for getting a campaign ready for a long fight, he served in the Army in Bosnia. Doesn't sound like the kind of guy who will let the inevitable GOP dirty tricks stand unopposed, does he?
* Quote of the day:
John Sununu is one of the nation's better senators.
...He doesn't believe in funding global warming conspiracy theorists (unlike, say, presidential candidate Mike Huckabee), and he supported drilling in ANWR.
I think Democrats really need to understand that John Edwards is the most electable Democrat in the general election, which is why I'm writing this diary. I am no fan of polls, and I'm certainly no expert, and all of this data has been presented before by people like Michael 4 Edwards and Bruinkid, but I don't think that it's been presented in a comprehensive and easily readable way in one diary before, and this is what I'm attempting to do here.
There are a few reasons why I think that getting this information across is so important.
