Haddock?

[liberal democrat]

Your guys voted for Kerry and got ride of a GOP governor. Why did Dorothy Haddock do so poorly against Judd Gregg? Granted, I don't know much about Gregg, but I hear is pretty conservative unlike the other Northeastern RINOs (Chaffee, Snowe, etc.) So, is Gregg not that bad? How did he win a blue state by a landslide during a presidential year?

[BigMcLargehuge]

1. because he has a strong base

and Granny D was a novelty candidate. While I appreciated her positions, and I voted straight ticked, so I voted for her, her candidacy was underfunded and treated as a joke by the media.

[Shoeempress]

2. Also, she is not exactly a spring chicken. Had the great fortune to

hear her speak a couple of time during the election. She was extremely eloquent but came across as very physically fragile.

[liberal democrat]

3. too bad

She would have made a fine senator.

[Shoeempress]

4. Wonder if she has a daughter?

[maxanne]

5. no, but

she has at least one son.

NH doesn't do a good job of nurturing candidates along from the minor leagues - that's something we need to change, in order to have a steady stream of ready candidates.

[Francesca]

6. yes she does have a son and I saw him yesterday

he said Granny was feeling blue but planning some speaking tours..in regards to running again he said no that was it..

[alevensalor]

11. Jim's such an awesome guy.

I love him, he's just awesome.

~A!

[alevensalor]

12. The media never had a question

in their mind. They endorsed Gregg with things like "even though he is a foot-soldier for Bush in the Iraq Debacle.."

What a friggin joke.

~A!

[Lenape85]

7. People in northern New England tend to be more independent

they tend to split their ticket more

[liberal democrat]

8. Yes, and you know what really pissed me off:

In the debate between Lynch and Benson, Benson made fun of Lynch for supporting Haddock. He was laughing and saying how it shows what a partisan Lynch is and sarcastically said, "Yeah Granny D will really be an effective senator." How classless. Even though I know nothing about NH politics, I'm glad that Benson is gone.

[Francesca]

9. Benson is a complete ass and many of us are thrilled he's

on his way out.

[alevensalor]

10. I worked for the campaign

And I can tell you that we simply didn't have the money to beat that whore Gregg. Doris didn't take any PAC money, so we got the shaft, raised a total of about 60K, and Gregg had more than a million.

We took 34%, 221,000 votes, with only a small grass roots organization. If we had raised the kind of money he did, Doris would be Senator Haddock now.

~A!