I live in New Hampshire.
I was raised in New Hampshire.
I moved back to New Hampshire after spending a few years in Colorado because New Hampshire is my home.
I understand the role New Hampshire plays in national politics every four years and how the voters here think because I'm one of them.
Here's something I don't understand: Jonathan Martin's latest blog out at The Politico.
I remember the buzz in New Hampshire for McCain in 2000. Hell, I even voted for the guy in the Primary then.
I remember people here talking about McCain in 2004, hoping he'd run anyway...even though the GOP had an incumbent President.
I have not heard a thing about McCain as we head toward 2008 and now polling units are reporting a McCain surge in the numbers? It's not just ARG, UNH/CNN/WMUR said something similar last month. I'd love to know who they're talking to because I just don't see it.
No one here is talking about John McCain.
No one.
If they are, it's about how they hate his stance on illegal immigration.
I get that ARG is a New Hampshire company with headquarters located less than ten minutes from my very own abode, but...well...I'm not certain their "representative sample" is all that representative. Do the 600 people that ARG is polling know something that the rest of New Hampshire doesn't?
My ear is still to the ground and I'm hearing a lot of spin and not much else.
William Smith
ConservativeBlogger.com
