Nice. For whatever reason, there have been 2 or 3 polls in the past month that have shown Brown with a decent lead.

I just never believed that Brown could win again against a decent candidate like Warren.

I honestly don't think Warren will even run, but there has already been some speculation I wanted to include another woman on the list. I assume there will be at least one woman who runs. Besides Clinton, I could see Kathleen Sebelius or Christine Gregoire possibly running.

I know that if Clinton decides to run, she probably wins. Cuomo probably would decline a bid rather than go up against her.

Many of these 8 candidates are likely to run for president in 2016. If the election were today, who would you vote for?

Based on what I know at this point, I'd probably lean toward O'Malley. I do think his history of tax increases will really hurt him in the 2016 election, however. If Clinton decides to run, I'd give her strong consideration.

Bush is definitely smarter than Palin.

She's fat, dude.

You can't be completely skinny and have that nice a rack!  She should lose about 10 pounds, but she's not bad as she is either.

I want to see her topless now. She should pose for Playboy.

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Up until Steele, I thought Dean was the most inept party chairman (he's not even CLOSE to Steele)

Dean was the best DNC chairman of the past 25 years, he helped to completely revitalize the party.

Somewhat approve, he's done well given that he has a Democratic Congress that is scared to do anything and has many Corporate, DLC members

Great picture, great rack. I like Meghan McCain, she's a cool chick.

There are concerns about Kirk's recent divorce, could be some messy details coming out if he decides to run for Senate.

Should be interesting.

The article directly above this post is wrong. THe majority of Mass. residents who have moved to New Hampshire vote Republican. The border towns where Mass. transplants are moving (Salem, Windham, Hudson, Atkinson, etc.) are the most heavily Republican towns in the state.

It is NH natives and transplants from other states that have flocked to the Democratic party in recent years.

I bet that Obama will pick someone no one is talking about.

What will he say in his next interview? I'm guessing it'll be something like "race-mixin' is wrong" or something along those lines.

This guy is a neanderthal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_S._Karlan

She's incredibly bright and talented, but may be too liberal

The court could use a real liberal. There are 4 hardcore right-wingers on there now that will be there for a long time.

Total Revenge, you didn't get your name from the Say Anything song, did you?

Patrick has been a disappointment, although he has also been a big victim of the economic recession (like many other governors as well). He has been way too eager to raise taxes and tolls to stem the state's deficit. 

Yikes, Tedisco will drag this race out for many months (just like Coleman).

This will be one of the 6 or 7 seats that Dems target in 2010.

Wait what?

He was obviously making a bad joke.

Will Shea Porter be hurt by her sex change announcement? 

Shouldn't hurt "her" at all.

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MANCHESTER – He's not saying so publicly, yet, but all signs point to Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta becoming a candidate for the 1st District U.S. House seat within the next three weeks.

After announcing on Saturday that he won't run for a third term as mayor and will seek higher office, Republican Guinta told the New Hampshire Union Leader yesterday that by the end of the week, he will have a "Friends of Frank Guinta" federal campaign committee filed with the Federal Election Commission. He said he will begin to raise money immediately.

Guinta and close advisers have recently told Republicans in Manchester and elsewhere he intends to run for the U.S. House seat now occupied by two-term Democratic Rep. Carol Shea-Porter.

Guinta to Challenge Shea-Porter

When it comes to the NH Republican bench, this guy is pretty much it (unless you count retreads like Bass and Sununu).  I think CSP will beat him handily, he's really not very popular and is an average candidate at best.

Scoonie, is Sean Mahoney someone Republicans could rally around?  I know nothing of the NH GOP beyond Rudman, Sununu, Gregg and old Bob Smith.  Any other names floating around?

Sean Mahoney is only known among hard-core GOP activists. He would have very little name recognition and would not be able to raise very much money.

Really, you could say the same thing about every other Republican in this state outside of Sununu and Charlie Bass probably. The GOP bench is weak, the only real up-and-coming Republican in this state is Manchester mayor Frank Giunta, and even he is not that popular.

There are something like 80 more Democrats in the House right now than Republicans, losing one seat doesn't make any difference.

The Senate is a whole other story with the Republicans trying to filibuster every piece of legislation, Democrats need to get to 62 or 63 Senators to get stuff passed. We can't afford to lose any seats in the Senate.

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I don't think social security privatization is popular among any democraphic group right now except maybe the most hardcore Republican primary voters.