44 precincts out-each of them in an individual town scattered all over the state. The surrounding cities to these uncounted towns went for Ayotte.

I think she adds to her margin as these towns are counted.

That’s just my prediction. Ovide’s strength was in Manchester and those towns/cities that were nearby. Those votes are all counted.

If the big establishment RINO wins, Obama doesn’t have the chance to nominate another Supreme Court Justice.

Why do states have these late primaries? Why not do them in May like most of the so-called backward southern states do? It’s because of these late primaries that states are trying to screw troops out of voting.

Let’s be real. She is establishment, but she got half the tea party vote last night. She’d be the most conservative Northeastern Republican senator ever, most likely.

Finally, I voted for someone that won. It’s been awhile.

As someone who was following the DE Senate race mighty closely, the idea that Ayotte is anywhere remotely near similar to somebody like Castle is just extremely far from accurate. Ayotte is a Conservative Republican, not as Conservative as Ovide, and I’m sure there are any number of ways she could be criticized as less of a Conservative than Lamontagne, of course, but she’s totally acceptable as a nominee if she wins. I’ll be happy with either of these two in the US Senate, and I think everybody here should be.

Apparently talking about NH Senate Primary was not worth Sean’s precious time yesterday.

I called in to talk about Ayotte vs. Ovide, but his screener said he didn’t want to talk about that. She said he’d cover it in his monologue. The only thing he said in his monologue about it was “there’s a primary in NH today”.

Thanks Sean!

It was a good thing that Hannity was going after Castle, but I thought the goal was to encourage as many people as possible to get involved. Especially in the primaries to elect real conservatives. Apparently it’s much more important for Hannity to spend 24/7 talking about the mosque instead of a very important race in NH!

At least Laura Ingraham has her priorities straight!

Please, I am begging you… Please give this wonderful man some national exposure…. He is running against Dingell, is conservative, a cardiologist, and wants full repeal of Obamacare….

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42191.html

87% of the precincts in and she leads by 1664 (39% to 37%). All the big cities – Manchester, Nashua, Concord, Londonderry, Rocherster, Salem are in, so there is probably less than 10% of the vote oustanding, so unless there is some huge pocket of support for Lamontagne where he captures some 45% of the remaining vote to Ayotte’s 35%, then she likely has it.

And can we quit with the “RINO” slurs here? I barely post, but have become increasingly frustrated with all the comments labeling every candidate who isn’t the most far to the right a “RINO”. Many of you now praising Chris Christie were leading the bashing of him as a RINO and pulling for the unelectable Steve Lonagan. Many of you bashed Bob Corker as a RINO, yet he held that seat in Tennessee for us, and is a pretty thoughtful Senator – the type of person that you can put on This Week or Meet The Press and be confident that he can actually articulate good positions. Judd Gregg (not perfect) has made budget reform a priority for years, and he is bashed as a “RINO”.

If the goal is to destroy the “establishment” (Romney, Daniels) – which seems to be many posters goal – then lets go all in on that and nominate Alan Keyes or Christine O’Donnell for President in 2012 and see how we do.

not sure I get what you are talking about? Obviously I am being facetious. But, are you going to argue that there aren’t a lot of posts here bashing good solid conservative Republicans as “RINOs” and for some posters beating the “establishment” hasn’t risen to the highest importance? Look back a year to Lonegan/Christie.

As someone who grew up in NH and watched Lamontagne help launch the career of now straightline liberal voting Senator Jeanne Shaheen by getting killed in his 1996 gubernatorial race, and then also watched as Craig Benson alienated every person in the state and fail to get reelected in 2004 – thus leading to the GOP wipeout in 2006 as Governor Lynch destroyed a bad GOP opponent with 70% of the vote, I know that having good, conservative, electable candidates is very important – not just for getting policies enacted, but also for connecting with the voters and building trust in the brand.

Maybe Bill Sali was the most conservative Republican on paper in Idaho back in 2006, but he was SO bad that he actually lost an unloseable seat seat and now we have Walt Minnick out there – who could be there for many years if he isn’t defeated this year.

(This is more about Delaware) Being conservative matters, but honor and integrity, being able to articulate a conservative message (like a Marco Rubio), and yes electability matter a lot to me too – something we learned in 2006/2008 after watching Don Sherwood, Bob Ney, Mark Foley, Rick Renzi,Tom Delay, Jerry Costello, Rick Pombo etc. fumble away GOP districts – and John Doolittles and Duke Cunninghams almost fumble away safe districts. When you have bad and/or corrupt candidates everyone suffers.

based on the vote in the other Seacoast towns (Portsmouth, Hampton, Exeter, Somerworth, Rochester) – I think Ayotte will do fine there. Derry is probably Lamontagne’s best bet for making up some solid ground.

Bwahahahaha!

Bwahahahaha!

We (wife and I) were supporting her until Ovide started getting some press – like him better so he got my vote, my wife stayed with Ayotte. But I cannot understand the hand ringing over Ovide versus Ayotte – the difference between the two as senators is probably marginal at best based on politics. Any big difference will be due to character and personal leadership – neither is well established at this point.

I get the feeling that some people are primarily anti-Ayotte, because her victory would be seen as a ding against the tea party. But with Palin’s endorsement Ayotte has the other grass roots nod in the race… I see it more as Palin v Tea Party than establishment v. Tea Party.

AP calls the Senate race for Ayotte.

With 90% of the vote in, Ayotte leads 38% to 37%.

Ayotte 48,590 votes

Ovide 47,406 votes