This thing is getting pretty close to over. Ayotte’s lead is 33 points and growing. Paul Hodes may of cut the lead, but come November he is going to be one sitting duck, just waiting to be picked off.

Ayotte was an absolute crushing blow in this primary. Looks like Haley-Martinez-Handel and now Ayotte get the Palin bear hug on the way to victory.

47% in a four way primary where she is getting outadvertised 4-1 plus Hodes is doing negative push polls against her. Plus an 8 point GE lead we need more candidates who are in Ayotte’s shape

The big reason why Ayotte’s negatives are rising is becuase Hodes has been conducting push poll calling which slam Ayotte. Hodes is involving himself in the NH GOP primary in hopes of creating a bloody primary.

I believe the NH Attorney General has agreed to investigate whether if Hodes’s push polling calls violated NH campaign finance laws.

. . . I do believe Bill Binnie would be the better Senator. I heartily endorse his zinger: “Kelly Ayotte puts people in jail; I put them in jobs.” We have *WAY* too many lawyers in government at all levels. The people who actually *do* things seldom make the time to take an active role in politics. Which is a shame, because: (1) it takes a lot more talent and drive to build a successful business from scratch than it does to be an attorney and (2) lawyers tend to live in isolation from the truth of daily reality. .

Ovide is the only real conservative in this race. Binnie is an ultra liberal leftist and Ayotte is a RINO who supported Sotomayor. I will not ever forget this and those who are concerned about the future of our country should not either.

As for those who think that Ovide has no chance and it’s only a 2 person race:

The facts are…a vote for Ovide is not a vote for Binnie…a vote for Ovide is a vote for Ovide. People should remember that Ovide was down 20 points in the ’96 primary against establishment primary opponent Bill Zelif the week before the primary. A week later he beat Zelif by 5 points! The only thing a poll can indicate this far out amongst primary candidates is name recognition. Once people tune in and start learning more about where candidates actually stand on the issues the polls will look much different. We do know that in a head-to-head match-up that Ovide beats Paul Hodes, and that’s the message we need to convey!

Real conservatives need to utilize blogs like Redstate to get the word out to support Ovide!

PPP is the only pollster that continues to spew this data from 400+ likely voters (whoever they are) in the GOP primary…. that Ayotte has 47% of the primary vote. As a NH republican activist, I can tell you with no uncertainty that this is completely BOGUS. Yes, she still remains the front runner in the race, but a far more unbiased UNH-WMUR poll (http://www.unh.edu/survey-center/news/pdf/gsp2010_summer_senate072810.pdf ) will tell you that 91% of Republicans and 95% of Independents have not yet decided who to vote for….and they are the only ones eligible to vote in the GOP primary. Even 70% of the Democrats polled were undecided, and they have only one candidate running—Paul Hodes.

So, anyone that says this race is over has no clue about NH politics. It will be over in the wee hours of Sept 15th, the day after the ballots go in…….the only poll that counts. I still predict Ovide by a nose.

Ok not exactly, but republicans in NH are focusing in on one positive about her, just like the Dems did with John Kerry, But they are ignoring her list of problems (Castle doctrine, illegal immigrant, JUA, Richard Brothers, John Lynch, ECT………..) Kelly’s looks good to the casual observer just like Kerry did to the Dems and look, but dig a little deeper and we all saw what happened.