Here we are, going into what looks like a very good year for Republicans. Obama and the national Democrats have stuck us with Obamacare, and even the dimmest voter is beginning to sense that Obamacare is bad for him. We need candidates to run for both US representative seats, the governor's office, and Shaheen's US senate seat.
So far, the only really competitive Republican candidate is Scott Brown, from MA, who is running for US senate. I haven't met Brown, but he managed win Ted Kennedy's senate seat in 2010. That's impressive in deep blue Massachusetts. I have met Jim Reubins the other declared candidate, nice guy, but I don't think he is setting the voters on fire. The talk down at the local breakfast place (The Coffee Pot) was not encouraging for Brown. Just about everyone called him a carpetbagger, and disparaged his Massachusetts background. Let's hope he can do some fence mending, quick.
We have Frank Guinta running in the other US rep district against Shea Porter. Frank might be able to do it, he held the seat once, and lost to Shea Porter in 2012. Maybe he can do a comeback like Charlie Bass did in 2010. As far as the other US rep district (my district) we don't even have a candidate.
We do have a candidate for governor, Andrew Hemingway, nice guy. I've met him. He is pretty young, and hasn't even gotten elected to the State House of Representatives yet. He has only held town offices. I'm thinking a successful governor has to have better name recognition and know more people that Andrew does.
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