New Hampshire 2018: The Bloody First

[IceSpear]

Sullivan picked the worst place to carpetbag, she should've went for VA-10 or somewhere in FL, NV where most of the people are transients. I don't even know why she bailed on Illinois, wasn't she in IL-14 which is absolutely winnable.

NH-1 is actually more full of transients. NH-2 is the more insular district. Most of those transients are Republican, but nevertheless there are transients.

Yeah, NH-02 actually swung towards Shaheen in 2014 despite the political climate being the polar opposite of 2008, which was pretty amazing. Brown did better than Sununu because of the big R swing in NH-01. It's hard to see anything other than the Massachusetts carpetbagger factor causing this, as it would matter way more in the 2nd than in the 1st where there are lots of Republican MA carpetbaggers that identified with Brown.

[IceSpear]

I really want to hear from Sullivan why she left a perfectly fine district in IL for NH, this has to be one of the most bizarre political decisions of 2018.

easy, political opportunism.

That's why it's strange. IL-03 or IL-06 seemed like they would've been paths of lesser resistance. Maybe poor Maura really did love NH so much she only wanted to run there, lol.

[IceSpear]

Hurrah! Sullivan and Sanborn lost . NH politics is still local, and backgrounds matter, thank God! The race favors Pappas but at least this’ll be a fight between two respectable candidates.

My thoughts exactly. Edwards is a very strong candidate, and someone I can respect.

https://twitter.com/NHDems/status/1039723482664382464

Even the official account is taking shots at Sullivan

On the issues, Edwards is still a standard far right conservative.

I'd like to think I know that, considering Edwards is running in my CD.

I'm just saying - he's much more respectable than Steve Negron, who says really creepy things about "taking Kuster home" and is currently defending gay conversion therapy.

Exasperated NH Men must have given up on winning over the Angry NH Women and are now just trying to troll them, presumably.