New Hampshire’s recent U.S. Senate elections have had one recurring characteristic: staggering amounts of money raised and spent. That standard was set in 2016, when the contest between then-Gov. Maggie Hassan and then-Sen. Kelly Ayotte set a state record for the total amount of fundraising from all candidates, and in 2022, when Hassan defeated Republican […]

Democratic U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas will face off in November against Republican former Sen. John E. Sununu to be U.S. senator, after the two candidates prevailed in their respective primaries Tuesday. The results, projected by the Associated Press shortly after 8 p.m., solidified what will likely be a bare-knuckled, expensive general election fight for the […]

In 2006, Carol Shea-Porter stunned the New Hampshire Democratic establishment, defeating a well-funded, party-backed opponent, Jim Craig, in the primary and then ousting Republican Jeb Bradley in the 1st Congressional District. And she did it with a progressive platform.  “There was a sense of: We don’t want Washington coming here and telling us what to […]