I wanted to make this a comment on the Ayotte post now on the front page, but there is some kind of bug preventing that.
We live in Amherst MA, and my wife was invited by email to canvass in Winchester NH this Saturday. There is a nice young man from Alabama who is staying in a supporter’s house and coordinating volunteer activity for maybe 2% of the state (Winchester, Hinsdale, and a few smaller towns).
We did a standard 20-house turf in Winchester — as usual, most people were not home, but we hit a few women who were for Hillary where their men were for Trump. We had Clinton and Hassan lit, and asked people about Clinton, Hassan, and Kuster when we could talk to them.
They are just starting out, but the infrastructure is there to make use of a lot of volunteers just as we had in 2012 and 2008.
The Cheshire County Democrats don’t seem to be in action yet, so the best place to volunteer is probably the Clinton campaign.
I’m not sure which is the more damning comment to make about Ayotte, that she is all for Trump or that she can’t decide whether she’s for Trump or not.
Less so from the Salem office, but both offices host plenty of phonebanks. These offices are actually I believe paid for by the NH Dem party as a coordinated campaign as their canvasses loop in Clinton/Kaine, Hassan, Kuster, and some state lege races. The gubernatorial primary is contested so that candidate won’t be involved until it is decided.
“but we hit a few women who were for Hillary where their men were for Trump. ”
I can’t imagine anyone talking about men voting for Trump and “their women”. Why would the reverse be acceptable?
The house has two registered voters, one a man, one a woman. About the same age. Maybe same last name, maybe not. The man was a Trump supporter. The woman was a Clinton supporter.
If you’re going to be critical of his language, why not be critical about the violence? After all, he and others “hit a few women who were for Hillary.”
Of course I meant “hit” in the sense of “came across”.
And I said “their men” rather than “their husbands or partners or roommates or whatever”. The gender reference was deliberate because these were all opposite-sex pairings.
While Mrs. Clinton will almost certainly take ME-01 and ME’s two at-large EVs, the race for the EV associated with EV-02 is far closer.
Furthermore, ME-02 has an one-term incumbent in the House who could be beaten. Maine’s senate is 20-15 GOP, the house is roughly 78-69 Dem. Good work in ME-02 could secure the EV, pick up a seat in the US House, and maybe even help the Dems take the state senate and further their strength in the state house of reps.
Lots to be gained in Maine 02!
Note that ME-02 comprises the half of Maine farther from MA.
If you want to bank everything on the last poll that showed Clinton +15, Hassan +10 in NH, maybe volunteers are not needed as badly in NH. But there is a lot of idle GOP money out there that is going to be dumped on the governor, Senate and US House races in NH closer to the election. Kuster is probably pretty safe in NH-02 but Shea-Porter may have a very close race in NH-01, depending on the GOP primary and whether anyone takes her nitwit independent opponent seriously.
But rather, both ME-02 and New Hampshire.
Let’s just say if moose counted in the census northern ME could get a few more CDs:) I believe ME-1 comprises basically Portland and points south, the parts which CD-2 residents often derisively refer to as “North Massachusetts”.
according to Scott Brown.
Your description is pretty accurate about the CDs.
Boston to Portland is 107 miles.
Boston to Lewiston (in ME-02) is 136 miles.
So while it’s true, canvassing along the Canadian border is quite a haul, it’s not much farther to the southern portions of ME-02, which are, not surprisingly, where the bulk of the people who live in ME-02 live.
Side note: I canvassed in Lewiston, ME for John Kerry in 2004. Really enjoyed it.