It’s been well over 2 years since Johnny Mac shocked the (uninformed) political world in the 2008 NH Primary. And small signs of the ground game Team McCain ran in the Granite State still abound. Like this lonely soldier, keeping watch from the back of a street sign up by the Mall of New Hampshire:
The Manchester Republican Committee has a new Chairman, Cliff Hurst, and a new board. And Cliff’s new committee is jammed with a LOT of talent from the 2008 presidential campaign trail. Talent that knows the score. Talent that is focused like a laser on growing and rebuilding the Party. So wannabe 2012 presidential strategists might [...]
At the end of the day, everyone is on Team First-In-The-Nation. Via The Dartmouth: Responding to pressure during previous presidential elections to allow other states’ primaries to precede New Hampshire’s, lawmakers in the state House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that will ensure the state maintains the first primary in the nation. State Rep. [...]
Adam Krauss has the call on HB 341, which is coming up for a vote in January: PORTSMOUTH — By now the history’s fairly well known: New Hampshire has been able to retain its first-in-the-nation presidential primary because in 1975 Portsmouth Democrat Jim Splaine sponsored a law that evolved in a way to give the [...]
Former 2008 Rudy Giuliani “strategist” Mike DuHaime: An RNC panel headed by party chairman Michael Steele invited the campaigns to share their views as it considers numerous possible changes to the process the party will use to nominate a candidate to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012. Mike DuHaime, the 2008 campaign manager for former [...]
First-In-The-Nation, baby! True grassroots, baby! 2012, baby! Believe it.