Since the 2008 election, no Republicans represent the six New England states in the US House of Representatives. But a recent WMUR Granite State poll indicates that if the election were held now, the New Hampshire GOP would probably recapture both congressional seats lost to the Democrats four years ago and retain the Senate seat Judd Gregg is relinquishing…
Democrats and Republicans enjoy roughly equal party registration in New Hampshire, but independents are a plurality that holds the balance of political power in the state. Shea-Porter fares poorly with self-identified independents in the WMUR poll.
“It’s the same sort of thing you saw in Massachusetts, Virginia, and New Jersey,’’ Andrew E. Smith, who conducted the poll, said, referring to the Brown election and the GOP taking away governorships in the other states last fall. “The bad economy is being seen as the responsibility or fault of the Democrats, and when the economy is this bad it pushes everything else off the political map.’’
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