October 25, 2014
SOMETIMES IT DOESN'T MATTER IF WE LIKE YOU:
Shaheen's message being drowned out by Obama, Ebola, ISIS (John DiStaso, Oct 25, 2014, NH Journal)
The Democratic incumbent tried at every turn during two separate hour-long debates to bring the conversations back to her strong point - her many years serving the state as governor and, now as a U.S. senator, and even in the past as a state senator.She brought up her work for the Berlin Prison, her work to secure funding for the I-93 expansion, her work for the Jobs Corps Center in Manchester, her work for individual constituents.She tried and tried to emphasize her deep roots in the Granite State. She tried at every opportunity to cast Scott Brown as an outsider, an opportunist, a guy who, unable to win in Massachusetts, conveniently moved into his summer home in New Hampshire to use the state as a stepping stone - perhaps even higher office.But as much as she tried, her arguments were drowned out by the broader issues facing the nation. And that of course brought the conversations back to one Barack Obama.
There's a really interesting poll out this week:
Among the likely voters, Shaheen led, 49 to 46 percent, with 3 percent undecided, and a margin of error of 4.5 percent. [...]Yet, by a margin of 59 to 30 percent, likely voters believe Shaheen will win the Senate race, the poll shows.
One suspects this is a matter of voters saying, "I've decided to vote for him, but I get why my neighbors would vote for her." The question is : are enough neighbors saying the same thing?
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 25, 2014 8:13 AM
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