elections. in the last four elections they ve gone republican four times and democrat four times. the state of new hampshire if you look at some of the statistics, the state of new hampshire has four electoral votes, but those four electoral votes could be pivotal this time around, that s why the two campaigns are fighting so hard to win new hampshire. unemployment looking pretty good in new hampshire, a rate of 5.4%, much better than the national average. if you look at the visits, president obama has been there twice. mitt romney eight times. he has sometimes combined vacations at his lake house there with some campaigning. and of course he was the governor of neighboring massachusetts, so he has some history in that state. looking at the polls, 48.3% is the real clear politics average in new hampshire for the president. 44.8% for mitt romney. drew kline is the editorial paged tore for the union leader
is my memory failing, or is this an unusual year for new hampshire? i don t know that it s all that unusual now. new hampshire used to be a little more what you might call red, but it s kind of in between right now, and you have to think of new hampshire as, you know, people outside of new hampshire kind of think of it as a white northeastern state where people are just living up in the hills and they ve always lived there. more than half of granite staters are from out of state. that has been true for a longtime. the population of the state is in flux, you have a lot of people moving in from massachusetts and a lot of people coming in to the state for jobs. the unemployment rate is quite good and has been for some time. the economy is going strong comparatively to new england. we get a lot of people who move here from mid-atlantic states and from new york and pennsylvania and places like that. the population is changing, and we have surprises 0 could
i was for it or maybe the other way around, i don t even recall. so it wasn t mitt romney himself, but it s so apt, it s so utterly apt that it s going to stick to him from now on. there s just no way around it, and ann romney can cite any talking point she wants. massachusetts is really good at politics. i worked for tip o neill and went to holy cross. i know the place, i know barnacle and all of the guys live it, it s their blood. what do people in massachusetts say about mitt romney? is he a moderate republican of the kind he was as governor and pretending to be a right winger to catch up with santorum and newt and those guys or a deep down right winger who pretended to be a moderate to get elected massachusetts governor? people felt like he was more moderate. that s how he won in 2002. so they believed the guy who was governor. yes, and then shortly after that, he started his presidential sort of aspirations, in 2004, started
neighboring massachusetts where romney was governor of course we were talking about it, also getting nolished a new ppp poll shows the bay state stays deep blue in november, obama s at k58, romney down at 35 and that s where he s from, among other places. we ll be right back. oh! [ baby crying ] what started as a whisper every day, millions of people choose to do the right thing. slowly turned to a scream there s an insurance company that does that, too. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what s your policy? amen, omen
republican. they weren t going to build the republican party in massachusetts that way and they didn t. this guy has a lot of houses, he s got one in santa barbara now, one ancestral home in michigan, some were back in mexico you could face the family. like winnipesaukee. his problem is which house is he going to come from if he gets elected to the presidency if he wins? who knows? it s simi valley in california. reagan country. let s look at one of our colleagues. it makes it much harder, perhaps impossible for romney to tack back to the center to appeal to centrist voters, necessary for the fall complain after the extremism of the republican primary. every time romney makes a move other a head fake it becomes an etch-a-sketch moment. he is screwed either way according to joe because joe