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It’s been ages since I blogged here on FNH, but something is drawing me back to it today. I have some thoughts to share about New Hampshire politics, specifically how I feel caught between the Republicans and the Democrats.
I lean to the libertarian right in my politics, so I’ve been dismayed to watch the Democrats [...]

I will be glad if he does come back.
As New Hampshire Republicans search for a way to rebound from two consecutive devastating defeats in federal and state elections, former three-term Gov. John H. Sununu says he is open to the possibility of leading them.
Two decades after he was the state’s chief executive and then-President George [...]

We’ll see what Lynch does.
THERE MAY BE may be some wincing when Gov. John Lynch lays out a proposed $150 million in budget cuts on Friday.
“These cuts should be painful,” Legislative Fiscal Committee chairman Rep. Marjorie Smith said. She expects a somber mood. “You don’t have to look at the list to know what’s on [...]

Some interesting stuff in this column by Arlinghaus.
For the first time in many decades, the party that won the presidential ballot lost seats in the Legislature. When Presidents Reagan and Bush won in the 1980s, Republicans picked up legislative seats. Both Clinton victories in the 1990s saw Democratic gains. President George W. Bush’s elections were [...]

The topic of why New Hampshire has gone Democratic is a fascinating one that goes on and on and on. The conventional wisdom has it that mass numbers of Massachusetts liberals have poured into the state and taken over. This view says that the good, decent Republican natives have been overwhelmed by the locust-like influx [...]

I can’t wait to see what he does with this. Taxes? Fees? How do you think he’ll handle it?
In exactly two weeks, Gov. John Lynch is supposed to deliver to the Legislative Joint Fiscal Committee his plan for balancing the state budget by the end of the fiscal year, June 30. The people have two [...]

It looks like the Democrats actually lost some seats in the state legislature. Despite Obamamania it looks like the Republicans in the state legislature actually did pretty well given the circumstances of this election cycle.
In year in which Democrats won by significant margins in statewide races, House Democrats are set to lose [...]

James Pindell makes a pretty good argument that NH is still more of a purple state than a deep blue one.
And yet New Hampshire is still a divided state politically.
Much of the electoral success for Democrats in 2006 and 2008 is due to two unpopular Republicans: Craig Benson and George W. Bush. Benson set the [...]

Gardner’s comments do NOT make me feel better. Not at all.
Secretary of State William Gardner acknowledges that New Hampshire’s voting security system is not airtight, but he insists it is among the best in the country.Gardner said this week the state benefits because it is exempt from the National Voter Registration Act and because one [...]

Ugh. The UL has some depressing election predictions.
Democrats didn’t just pick up a few extra registered voters over the past six years. They added more than 86,000 people and went from 25 percent to more than 30 percent of registered voters, based on latest registration figures at the Secretary of State’s office.
Republicans, meanwhile, added 14,600 [...]