Gov. Kelly Ayotte strolled into the Secretary of State’s Office Thursday morning flanked by dozens of supporters and officially filed her bid for reelection, kicking off five months of official campaigning.   But the governor’s more immediate political battles Thursday were against her own party, just down the hall.  As they met for the last standard […]

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The deadline to change party affiliation for the September primary in New Hampshire is less than a week away.

Kris Schultz moved to New Hampshire in 2002 with one mission: get Mark Fernald elected. The Democratic state senator was running for governor, and Schultz had moved from Kentucky to run his campaign.  For Fernald, it was a clear opportunity: fellow Democrat and then-Gov. Jeanne Shaheen was departing the corner office to run for U.S. […]