I also think that pieces like this are laying the groundwork for low numbers for Ron Paul.
What the lying MSM will claim is all the disaffected indies and Republicans voted Democrat.
I'm not fooled by the political games anymore, readers.
What I wonder now is if any election is ever legitimate.
"N.H. seen tilting toward Democrats; Newcomers boost party's prospects in GOP territory" by Susan Milligan/Boston Globe November 23, 2007
HENNIKER, N.H. - Undeclared voters are moving leftward in their voting patterns, and a plurality of New Hampshire voters now identify themselves as Democrats, regardless of their actual party affiliations, according to data collected by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center.
Changes in the population of New Hampshire, driven largely by changes in the economy, are making it much more hospitable to Democrats and contributing to an overall trend favoring the party throughout the Northeast.
Forget the national caricature of New Hampshire residents - the 10th-generation folks who just want to be left alone and untaxed in their remote cabins, who can spot an outsider at 20 paces.
So that's what Ed Brown is to you stinking elites, huh? A caricature?
What scum papers!
Granite Staters themselves are increasingly likely to be from out of state. New Hampshire natives who left the state after college are coming back, eager to raise families in a state with low taxes and more affordable housing, and retirees are moving to take advantage of the lifestyle as well. They are better educated, and their higher-paying jobs are driving up average wealth in New Hampshire.
Those residents tend to be Democrats or independents, analysts say, and the independents are leaning more heavily Democratic in recent years, buttressing the party's prospects here.
Dean Spiliotis, an independent political analyst: "It's a function of demographics and technology. [The Democratic trend] is more than a blip at this point, and it could be 10 years at a minimum before there's a change in direction [of the state's politics]."
The numbers are startling: Democrats took control of both houses of the New Hampshire Legislature following last year's election for the first time since 1874, and Governor John Lynch, a Democrat, was reelected, two years after he defeated a Republican incumbent in 2004.
Both the state's US House seats flipped from Republican to Democratic in last year's elections, leaving New England with a single GOP member in the House. Former Democratic governor Jeanne Shaheen is already running slightly ahead of sitting Senator John Sununu, a Republican, in polls on next year's election. Democrats have won three of the last four presidential election contests in New Hampshire, and five of the last six gubernatorial races.
And if the demographic trends continue, the Democrats are likely to retain or expand their reach in New Hampshire, which is looking more and more like the rest of New England in its political behavior.
Andrew Smith, director of the UNH Survey Center:
"[The Granite State's new residents are] not only highly educated Democrats, but highly educated, politically active Democrats. So you get a higher turnout advantage [for the party on Election Day]."
New Hampshire still retains its New England charm, with its mountains, apple orchards, and bucolic towns like Henniker, where a resident selling pumpkins simply left an unattended can for buyers to leave money for the Halloween gourds.
Younger adults are finding new opportunities and a culturally richer lifestyle in places like Manchester, which has undergone a metamorphosis in the past decade. Old mills on Commercial Street now house high-tech companies. A new civic center downtown is home to the Manchester Monarchs, a minor league hockey team, and offers modern and classical music concerts. The main drag on Elm Street, once dotted with abandoned storefronts, now features many trendy restaurants.
Is this a political or real estate article?
Graham Chynoweth, a 29-year-old lawyer, was anxious to leave his hometown of Canterbury, N.H., to attend college and law school in California and North Carolina, and considered settling in a big city like Boston. Instead, Chynoweth moved back to the Granite State, where he said he can find both professional opportunity and a lifestyle difficult to afford on the other side of the border.
Chynoweth, a Democrat: "You can buy a house. You have access to cultural activities."
Older adults, too, are attracted to New Hampshire, contributing to the overall aging of the state. Many towns have age-restricted housing, appealing to retirees looking for quiet communities with low property taxes, Smith said.
That sounds like a Republican base, though!
Many wrongly assume the state's increasingly blue political tint is due to hordes of liberals moving over from Massachusetts, he said. Many Bay Staters indeed cross the border - a three-bedroom house in North Andover runs about $100,000 more than a similar abode 10 miles away in New Hampshire, he said - but those voters tend to be Republicans fleeing the liberalism of Massachusetts.
So Mass. Republicans are fleeing to New Hampshire, too, but the state trending Democrat?
Huh?
Bay State Republicans tend the stay that way, and are contributing to the GOP voting patterns along New Hampshire's southern border, Smith said, while out-of-state Democrats and left-leaning independent are adding their voices to communities in central and upper New Hampshire, making those regions more Democratic in their voting patterns.
Dennis Kalob, a 48-year-old sociology professor, is one such Democrat who made the move to New Hampshire, drawn to the state's natural beauty and a job at one of the state's many higher education institutions, New England College, in Henniker, just west of Concord, the capital. When Kalob first moved from New Orleans more than a decade ago, he felt conspicuously in the Democratic minority, a progressive in a state largely dominated by GOP lawmakers at the state and federal levels.
Now, Kalob senses a distinct move in his community toward the Democrats - including among some moderate and fiscally conservative Republicans who he says voted against their party last year as a protest against what they see as profligate federal spending and poor handling of the war.
So why wouldn't they like Ron Paul?
Why should I believe anything this lying shit MSM has to say?
Republicans, too, say their party has veered from its roots. Rick Russman, a 60-year-old lawyer and environmental activist in Kingston, wonders what happened to the party of Nelson Rockefeller and former New Hampshire senator Warren Rudman - Republicans who believed in fiscal restraint and small government.
Have you heard about RON PAUL, sir?! WTF is this? MSM is GARBAGE!
Ever since last week when I wrote them the letter, the MSM has basically ignored Ron Paul.
Man, are they ever afraid of him!
That guys box must have been flooded with e-mail!
Russman, who describes himself as "pro-choice, pro-death penalty, pro-gun and pro-hunting" and a committed Republican, is thinking of supporting Shaheen for Senate:
"A lot of the [national] Republicans have tried to hold on to the right. Democrats have tried to move to the center. I want to see the Republican party come back to the values that Warren Rudman represented. A lot of my friends have left the Republican party."
This guy is a natural Ron Paul supporter!
Are the MSM papers LYING AGAIN?!
