New Hampshire’s primary results Tuesday continued a well-worn narrative in the Granite State: Voters chose familiar, household names over insurgent outsiders to lead their parties.  Those include Stefany Shaheen, the Democratic nominee vying against Republican Anthony DiLorenzo for the 1st Congressional District; John E. Sununu, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate; and Chris Pappas, Sununu’s […]

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited New Hampshire in May, former Portsmouth City Councilor Stefany Shaheen stood outside the Concord press conference to let voters know it was his anti-science policies that convinced her to run for Congress. Hampton Selectwoman Carleigh Beriont, the leading progressive in the race, has been pitching a single-payer Medicare for […]

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. […]