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Poll by American Research Group has Democrat Molly Kelly closing fast on the Rapublican Incumbent Chris Sununu in the New Hampshire Governors Race. Now she has 44% to his 49%, leaving her only down by 5 points! ...
by BostonBilly
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on Sun Sep 30, 2018 at 12:00 AM PDT
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Due to an extremely busy summer, I haven’t been able to write any articles for a while. But I’ve still been making maps, so I wanted to give a rundown of the maps that I’ve made during the summer and early fall.
Connecticut
Connecticut’s primary...
by ProudNewEnglander
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on Mon Sep 24, 2018 at 06:13 AM PDT
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Many people believe that the American Chestnut is extinct. Technically, that’s never been true. Even the massive trees that fell victim to Chryphonectria parasitica sometimes resprout a hundred years later, before dying back to the roots. ...
by mspicata
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on Mon Sep 17, 2018 at 12:56 PM PDT
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The past couple of years have had us all awash in a constant and overwhelming flow of news, but this is no time for metaphors.
From the Atlantic coast to the Midwest to Hawaii, many Americans are up to their actual eyeballs in actual water.
And...
by Carolyn Fiddler
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on Thu Sep 13, 2018 at 03:31 PM PDT
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Guest: Meteorologist Guy 'Climate Guy' Walton; Also: NH Primary results...
On today's BradCast: A multitude of terrifying threats from Hurricane Florence loom large across at least four states in the Southeast, as millions of Americans hunker down...
by TheBradBlog
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on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 06:48 PM PDT
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A quite non-traditional New Hampshire state legislature candidate, after the jump:
But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across comments daily that are perceptive, apropos and...
by Ed Tracey
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on Thu Sep 13, 2018 at 07:00 PM PDT
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Everything Anyone Wants To Know, About The Northern Pass Project.
Which is a catchy name; for, building a long distance, high voltage-electrical energy transmission system, consisting of, over-head power lines and underground electrical cable...
by rebel ga
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on Fri Sep 14, 2018 at 05:30 PM PDT
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www.cookpolitical.com/…
Cook Political Report changed ratings on three Democratic Held Districts rating the two in New Hampshire as more likely to remain with team blue. Cook believes the winners of yesterday’s Granit State primaries will be...
by mastergardener2k
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on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 12:39 PM PDT
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Guest: Leahy's former Chief Counsel, Lisa Graves; Also: 'Monster' Florence intensifies; KS GOP panel allows man arrested for fraud and Kobach to remain on ballot; CA takes lead on climate change action...
On today's BradCast, we're closely watching...
by TheBradBlog
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on Tue Sep 11, 2018 at 06:48 PM PDT
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Deadly storms --- political and otherwise --- on every front and taking calls from listeners on all of it; Plus: Some bona fide good news out of CA!...
We catch up with quite a bit on today's BradCast, after being buried for much of last week in the...
by TheBradBlog
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on Mon Sep 10, 2018 at 06:12 PM PDT
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And other news, both good and bad, around the country and world, 78 days out from the midterm elections...
On today's BradCast: Some good news and bad for voters in New Hampshire and Georgia. Bad news for breathers. And Donald Trump has the worst....
by TheBradBlog
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on Mon Aug 20, 2018 at 06:31 PM PDT
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● North Carolina: On Friday, North Carolina Republicans escalated their assault on democracy to yet another level when state party executive director Dallas Woodhouse issued a barely veiled threat to impeach the state Supreme Court if...
by Stephen Wolf
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on Fri Aug 17, 2018 at 03:18 PM PDT
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Every candidate endorsed by the veterans organization VoteVets.org have one predominate thing in common—they’re all running on the Blue tickets. In the past, VoteVets have supported progressive Republicans, but it seems the current membership of over...
by Leslie Salzillo
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on Thu Aug 16, 2018 at 01:00 PM PDT
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In a week where The Spy Who Loved Me has become more than just a Bond movie, it’s easy to forget the non-Russia action transpiring in states across the country.
But fret not! I’ve got my GoldenEye on the action.
Campaign Action
Dr. NOPE: I’ve...
by Carolyn Fiddler
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on Thu Jul 19, 2018 at 03:00 PM PDT
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In a blow to voting rights, New Hampshire Supreme court greenlights GOP poll tax on college students In a surprise outcome, New Hampshire's Supreme Court dealt a major blow to voting rights in the Granite State when it issued an advisory opinion saying that a Republican-backed bill to tighten voter residency requirements doesn't violate the state...
by Stephen Wolf
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on Fri Jul 13, 2018 at 10:28 AM PDT
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● Michigan: In a huge development for voting rights in Michigan, voting rights groups have turned in more than 430,000 signatures to put a state constitutional amendment on the November ballot that contains a slew of key voting reforms,...
by Stephen Wolf
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on Fri Jul 13, 2018 at 12:01 PM PDT
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Our next state legislative chamber in this series can be found in the Granite State, New Hampshire. With its State Senate up every 2 years, it is often reactive to large swings in the national environment, and Democrats are hoping that that fact will...
by AJD7
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on Mon Jul 09, 2018 at 08:46 AM PDT
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● New Hampshire: New Hampshire Republicans have long stoked fears of voter fraud as a pretext for passing measures that suppress Democratic-leaning voters, but a new review has predictably deemed those fears to be totally unfounded. New...
by Stephen Wolf
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on Fri Jun 01, 2018 at 09:40 AM PDT
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New Hampshire’s exhaustive,18-month investigation into voter fraud in the 2016 general election found almost zero evidence of improper voting.
Trump and some Republicans had claimed that Clinton won the state because of massive numbers of voters...
by mastergardener2k
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on Wed May 30, 2018 at 05:14 PM PDT
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● Pennsylvania: After months of stonewalling a redistricting reform proposal, a committee in Pennsylvania's Republican-dominated state Senate has unanimously sent a compromise bill to the floor that would create a new bipartisan...
by Stephen Wolf
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on Thu May 24, 2018 at 02:15 PM PDT
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