Blue Granite

• A Busy Day in NH-02 - And a Good One for Hodes

  It's hard to even know where to start today. First off, there's a new poll from Majority Watch (click on the NH dot to see details) that shows Hodes in the lead with 50% to Bass' 47%. This poll has a low margin of error [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2006, 12:50am EST
  by MissLaura

• Paul Hodes and the Coming Ad Battle

  
  NHPR has a story on the NRCC ad buy against Paul Hodes, noting also that today, the DCCC answered with a buy of around $300,000. NHPR previews the NRCC ad, which is pretty standard-issue fare: "Liberal Paul Hodes wants to raise taxes." Well, yes, [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2006, 9:46pm EDT
  by MissLaura

• Huge NRCC Ad Blitz Coming

  
  The NRCC has made a $365,585 ad buy against Paul Hodes. Remember how last night I said things were going to get "not just negative but dirty"? This would represent an enormous increase in the amount of dirt, both because it's an enormous increase [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2006, 9:06pm EDT
  by MissLaura

• Bass Brings in Bigger Guns

  According to the Union Leader, Bob Stevenson, the new spokesman that has just appeared for the Bass campaign (number three, after Scott Tranchemontagne and Lindsay Jackson)
  

  has been through the political wars as a communications director for former New Hampshire Sen. Warren Rudman, Sen. Pete Domenici and most recently, [...]

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  Posted: October 26, 2006, 2:36am EDT
  by MissLaura

• Hodes and Bass Debate

  I'm going to shock all of y'all and say that Paul Hodes won tonight's televised debate. (As Yankee Doodler says in his post on the debate, "Well, what did you think I would say?") But I do believe this to be whatever passes for objectively true, as measured by [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2006, 1:17am EDT
  by MissLaura

• Bass on Social Security, Review with Hodes Counterpoint

  Back in August, I posted on Charles Bass' record with regard to Social Security. Short version: He's a long-time advocate of privatization. And that is still a relevant issue, with President Bush once again affirming his intention to phase out Social Security. If Charlie Bass is in Congress [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2006, 4:27pm EDT
  by MissLaura

• Bass Gets C+ on Veterans' Issues

  The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), a non-partisan group, has produced a scorecard on legislation affecting veterans.
  

  To calculate the Ratings, IAVA reviewed all legislation voted on in the Congress since September 11, 2001. For each piece of legislation that affected troops, veterans or military families, IAVA [...]

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  Posted: October 24, 2006, 3:24pm EDT
  by MissLaura

• Concord Monitor Endorses Paul Hodes

  The Monitor, in an endorsement focusing on the Iraq war, indicts Bass' unwillingness or inability to question the course of the war:
  

  Indeed it doesn't matter today that Charlie Bass voted to authorize the war in Iraq, or even that he remained initially optimistic about the potential for [...]

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  Posted: October 22, 2006, 4:11pm EDT
  by MissLaura

• Nashua Rally with John Kerry Cancelled

  From the Hodes campaign:
  

  Out of respect for the family and colleagues of Officer Briggs, and for his service to the State of New Hampshire, the rally and canvass originally scheduled for tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 11:00 AM with Sen. John Kerry and Paul Hodes has been cancelled.

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  Posted: October 20, 2006, 5:20pm EDT
  by MissLaura

• Hodes Campaign Mailer Makes a Splash

  (Re: The title - I'm really sorry, I couldn't help myself.)
  
  Anyway, this mail piece from the Hodes campaign has not struck the fancy of New Hampshire newspapers. Mike Pride at the Monitor says it was a mistake, that it [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2006, 7:55pm EDT
  by MissLaura

• Rally and Canvass This Saturday with John Kerry

  RALLY WITH PAUL HODES AND JOHN KERRY (D-MA)
  
  Where: Nashua City Hall (229 Main Street)
  When: 11:00, Saturday October 21
  Contact: Patrick (phone 603 223 2006)
  
  Clearly everyone should be there. [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2006, 12:08pm EDT
  by MissLaura

• Will Bass Get Bailed Out?

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  As I noted on Sunday, and GraniteProf elaborated on somewhat on Monday, the last several polls released have Charlie Bass below 50%, which is considered the danger line for an incumbent.
  
  You might expect the national party to come to his aid, bail him out by attacking [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2006, 11:16pm EDT
  by MissLaura

• Who is Paying Lindsay Jackson's Salary?

  Those who have been following the Congressional race between Paul Hodes and Charles Bass will by now be familiar with Bass' campaign spokeswoman, Lindsay Jackson. She's regularly on WMUR and in New Hampshire papers speaking for the campaign.
  
  For the campaign.
  
  So it's an interesting thing that Ms. [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2006, 5:25pm EDT
  by MissLaura

• Bass the Backbencher

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  The last appearance Tad Furtado, aka IndyNH, made here at Blue Granite was not to respond to polling numbers. It was to respond to a post arguing that Charlie Bass is not a leader in Washington. I pointed to the fact that Bass does not chair any subcommittees, while [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2006, 4:58pm EDT
  by MissLaura

• Two Independent Polls - One Up, One Down

  The Nashua Telegraph mentions two polls of NH-02. In one by the Becker Institute, Paul Hodes is up by 9, 48%-39%. In one by the American Research Group, Bass is up by 6, 48%-42%.
  
  It's hard to know what to make of all these different numbers, especially without [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2006, 1:57pm EDT
  by MissLaura

• Monitor Poll Flawed

  Update: Since this post, my claim that the poll was flawed has been backed up by every poll released. While only one of 4 polls since has shown Hodes in the lead (with one showing a tie), the Monitor poll is an outlier by more than 5 points in each [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2006, 2:58am EDT
  by MissLaura

• On Deciding to Blog

  Recently, the proprietors of NH-02 Progressive and The Yankee Doodler and I have been talking about how it is that we all started blogging in the space of a month or so when there hadn't been much NH blogging to that point. So this is my story.
  
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  Posted: August 26, 2006, 9:16pm EDT
  by MissLaura

• Canvassing Keene

  There's not a huge amount to say about today's "Democratic Reunion" canvassing event in Keene except that it was good. ("Good" - now there's some razor-sharp writing for you. I guess the other thing to be said is I'm exhausted.)
  
  I didn't think to count, but there were maybe [...]
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  Posted: July 29, 2006, 9:44pm EDT
  by MissLaura