Latest New Hampshire Polls (05/04/09)

  Before I begin this post let me apologize for not having a link to the numbers that I am about to write about. They appeared in the print edition of the New Hampshire Union Leader but not in the electronic edition. You are going to have to take my word for it, I wouldn’t lie to you. Trust me.

  There have been two special elections in the state in the last two weeks to fill a state senate seat and a state house seat; both of these elections were won by the Republican candidates. This has me optimistic that the tide is beginning to turn in New Hampshire and the numbers that I am about to give you show that the tide may be continuing to turn.

  UNH did some hypothetical polls on some of the potential upcoming state races and if these numbers hold Senator Judd Gregg might want to reconsider his decision to step down from the United States Senate at the end of his term in 2010. I believe that Senator Gregg thought that his re-election was such a long shot that he decided not to run again. But according to the UNH poll he leads the presumptive Democrat nominee for that senate seat by a margin of  52-33. While my former senator, John Sununu is leading Hodes 46-41.

  In the house my current representative, Carol Shea-Porter’s favorablilty rating is down to 38% with  an unfavorable rating of 37% , with 27% remaining neutral because they don’t know enough about her. I don’t understand how anybody at this point can not have a position on her (she is in her second term) for better or worse, they just must not pay attention. While Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta, who will probably run against her in 2010 holds a 30% favorability rating. This is sure to change once the mayor starts campaigning and gets his name out there to the voters. 63% of those polled said they don’t know enough about the mayor to have an opinion yet.

  My Senator Jeanne Shaheen is still sporting a 47% favorability rating in the first year of her first term but she has already lost nine points since February.

  New Hampshire residents are growing tired of the state of politics at both the state and federal levels and if these numbers continue there will be a change in New Hampshire. A change that is long overdue.