New Hampshire

It sure is getting to be a hot summer. And the town hall protesters are turning up the heat: they’ve gone from objecting to a national health care plan to wanting to shoot illegal immigrants in the head — and then deport them.
ConsiderThisNews has the video of protesters in New Hampshire, expressing their anger at [...]

Mostly via the blogging of Jim Geraghty, I’d become intrigued by Fred Tausch, a wealthy conservative in New Hampshire who has spent $400,000 on advertisements and direct mail attacking government spending and Democrats. I called Tausch’s office two weeks ago for an interview when I was reporting this piece about Republicans running against the stimulus, [...]

[UPDATE: I originally misidentified Fiorinia's abortion stance. She's pro-life.]
Josh Kraushaar notices that Republicans have gotten the U.S. Senate candidates they wanted in New Hampshire and Illinois, where they “lacked a deep bench of viable recruits — and their political hopes were largely dependent on one specific candidate running.” This feeds this week’s meme that Republican [...]

With leading contenders for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination dropping like flies, an increasing amount of buzz has surrounded Haley Barbour, the cigar-chomping former Republican National Committee chairman and current governor of Mississippi. Speculation only crescendoed when Barbour visited Iowa and New Hampshire and met with top Republican strategists.
I caught up with the governor following [...]

The anti-gay marriage group, which pre-emptively declared victory over New Hampshire’s stalemated marriage legislation, sends out a statement responding to this week’s passage. Executive Director Brian Brown:
I helped found NOM because I believe that values voters need new avenues for political influence. No more paper tigers. No more Potemkin villages.  Stay tuned: This fight is [...]

From Reuters:
New Hampshire’s Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that would legalize same-sex marriage after an amendment was added that prohibits polygamy and marriage of family members, among other measures.
Governor John Lynch has not indicated whether he will veto the bill, which passed in a 13-11 vote and would make New Hampshire the nation’s fifth [...]

My friends Jason Talley and Pete Eyre, anarcho-capitalists road-tripping across America, capture some footage from a New Hampshire Tea Party of angry conservatives assuming an anarchist is an ACORN plant and getting the police to roust him out. (Video after the jump.)

A pair of McCain campaign officials went to extraordinary lengths today to sidestep a news report that the campaign was halting new advertising buys in Wisconsin and New Hampshire — an indication that the campaign may be preparing to abandon the states with two weeks left until the general election.
In a McCain campaign conference call [...]

Sen. Barack Obama delivered his closing argument in New Hampshire on Thursday, casting his final debate with Sen. John McCain as proof that the Republican will only give the country more of President George W. Bush’s failed policies.
I wrote about Obama’s address live from the small apple barn where he spoke to supporters, but now [...]

LONDONDERRY, N.H. — The crowd chants “Obama” even before he arrives, Kanye West’s “Touch The Sky” blares and Mack’s apple barn bumps.  That’s the scene here for Sen. Barack Obama’s first rally since the final presidential debate — a vibe that’s one part victory celebration, one part G.O.T.V. push.