One of New Hampshire’s premier Dem activists backs Obama

[DemDem07]

The reasons my friend Kate Hanna, one of New Hampshire’s premier Democratic activists, is backing Barack Obama are worth examining for their underlying assumptions. Most expected she would be with Hillary Clinton.

• Sen. Hillary Clinton, of whom Kate is immensely fond, can’t win the November election because too many independent voters and soft Republicans dislike her; • Sen. Obama’s fresh face and calls for national unity can attract enough of those voters to win the White House.

Clearly, Obama has that opportunity. In those same Quinnipiac polls in which Sen. Clinton leads him substantially among Democrats, his more than 2.5-1 favorable/unfavorable ratio among the overall electorate is much better than hers.

That’s because independents view him favorably by a 50-12 margin. Yet, more than a third of voters do not know enough about him to have an opinion.

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[Raven]

1. Obama seems to have an excellent field organization up here

in New Hampshire.

[papau]

2. Obama was gifted the Dean organization by Dean - and they are working hard! :-)

:-)

[DemDem07]

3. The Iowa team is pretty well organized too.

I will say one thing though, All of our candidate staffers are hitting it hard. We've got an Obama, Edwards, Dodd, Biden, Clinton, and Richardson all pounding the pavement here in my neck of the woods.

[Colobo]

4. Gobama!!!

[Ethelk2044]

5. This is Good News

[DemDem07]

6. It can't hurt

:)

[William769]

7. The only one.

:rofl:

[SoxFan]

8. A crack in Hillary's armor

Kate is part of Gov. John Lynch's inner circle, and is generally seen as part of the Shaheen wing of the party. When people like Kate start to turn away from the Clinton camp, then there is something significant afoot.