We had the annual party dinner last night. I must still be fairly active, at this point I know nearly everyone who shows up at these things. We had candidates, looking to recruit supporters, and all the Grafton County regulars, the people who do the emails, do the sphagetti dinners, watch the polls, politick from door to door, in short the party workers.
We now have two candidates for Jean Shaheen's US Senate seat, Karen Testermann and Jim Rubins. We have a candidate for Anne Kuster's US house seat, Gary Lambert. We gave each candidate a mere TWO minutes of floor time to make a pitch. These guys (and gal) are all old New Hampshire state government pols. If elected, I'm sure they could all do a fine job in DC. I'm not so sure that they have the name recognition, the charisma, the telegenic good looks, and the luck, to carry the election. Fortunately, the Democratic incumbents are pretty unexciting.
Senator Kelly Ayotte sent regrets, she is in DC, wrangling over the debt ceiling. State chairman Jenifer Horn sent regrets. AND, Ray Burton, the north country legend was not there. I hope he is OK, he underwent chemo for prostate cancer this year, and it took some starch out of him.
Consensus of opinion. Obama might indeed be stupid enough to default if he doesn't get his debt ceiling hike. That's depressing.
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