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Makeover in New Hampshire 1st District: Freshmen Rep. Shea-Porter
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Jan 17, 2007 04:18pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, January 17, 2007 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Jessica Benton Cooney | 3:52 PM; Jan. 17, 2007 | Email This Article
The following article, by CQPolitics.com’s Jessica Benton Cooney, profiles one of the surprise winners who helped boost the Democrats to a House majority in the current 110th Congress: Carol Shea-Porter, who took 51 percent of the vote to unseat two-term Republican Rep. Jeb Bradley in New Hampshire’s 1st District.
The story is the latest in an occasional series about Democratic House freshmen from politically competitive districts, what they are doing to steel themselves against future Republican challenges and what the GOP is planning as the party tries to reclaim at least some of these seats in the next national campaign.
The Democratic Party’s upsurge in the 2006 elections changed the face of American politics. And nowhere was that makeover more complete than in New Hampshire.
Voters in the traditional stronghold of “Yankee Republicanism” re-elected Democratic Gov. John Lynch by a landslide margin, turned control of both state legislative chambers from Republican to Democratic — and replaced both of the state’s House incumbents, Republicans Charles Bass and Jeb Bradley, with Democrats Paul W. Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter.
Shea-Porter’s win over Bradley in the eastern 1st District, which includes Manchester, not only was one of the surprises of the Granite State’s political season — it was one of the biggest House upsets in the nation. |
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