{"id":30449,"date":"2010-11-07T09:12:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/massive-defeat-of-democrats-in-new-hampshire\/"},"modified":"2010-11-07T09:12:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:12:40","slug":"massive-defeat-of-democrats-in-new-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/massive-defeat-of-democrats-in-new-hampshire.php","title":{"rendered":"MASSIVE DEFEAT OF DEMOCRATS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/TNGAJvDQtNI\/AAAAAAAAOP0\/lv8ciI6ZMgI\/s1600\/KellyAyotteflagshot.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4ef24_KellyAyotteflagshot.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>Kelly Ayotte won her Senate race with a much higher percentage than anyone predicted.  Ayotte gave Democrat Congressman Paul Hodes a thumping, with 61% to 35%.  <\/p><p>Republican Frank Guinta, former Mayor of Manchester, was widely expected to win the 1st District US House race.  But he did so with a somewhat larger margin than expected with 58% of the vote.  Guinta was running against an ultra-left liberal Carol Shea Porter. (I spent a day in Manchester phone banking for Guinta.)<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/TNGASfGO8KI\/AAAAAAAAOP8\/rOmJlizsV-c\/s1600\/FrankGuintaNH.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7fd39_FrankGuintaNH.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>What was less-anticipated is that moderate-to-conservative Republican Charlie Bass won the Paul Hodes seat in the 2nd District with 49% to 46%%. Ironically, he beat his childhood friend Ann Kunster, a relatively moderate Democrat.  The two ran a clean race, and refrained from criticizing each other.   <\/p><p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/wayneinnh\/2010\/11\/03\/nh-gives-republicans-supermajorities-for-dem-governor\/\">RedState.com<\/a>, Democrats had held a 14 to 10 advantage in the State Senate.  That has flipped to Republicans with a whopping 20 to 4 majority.<\/p><p>The New Hampshire State House has completely flipped, and in a big way.  Democrats have had a comfortable majority in the House for 4 years.  Early indicators predict at the low end of 250 Republicans (out of 400), and possibly as high as 300.<\/p><p>The Executive Council, a statewide constitutional office in the State, with important veto power of the Governor, has flipped from 3 to 2 Democrat, to 5 to 0 Republican.<\/p><p>Democrats claimed only one single victory, and by a hair.  Incumbent Democrat Governor John Lynch was re-elected over Tea Partyer John Stephen 52% to 48%.<\/p><p><em>On the ground in New England.<\/em><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7fd39_7828681836623105417-1026247103150044637?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Eric Dondero:Kelly Ayotte won her Senate race with a much higher percentage than anyone predicted. Ayotte gave Democrat Congressman Paul Hodes a thumping, with 61% to 35%. Republican Frank Guinta, former Mayor of Manchester, was widely expected to win &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/massive-defeat-of-democrats-in-new-hampshire.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}