Today we had a special election in the Hillsborough 3rd District to replace a Republican NH House rep elected during the 2010 wave. He didn’t know once elected he had to actually show up for work . . . go figure.
Peter Leishman was the Democratic candidate who had served 5 pervious terms in the House. Peter was running against one David Simpson who had massive support from both the state and national Party. In fact both Romney and Perry motivated volunteers to come out for him. I am going to estimate Peter was out spent by a factor of 10 if not higher.
At the beginning of September OFA cut me loose from my day to day stuff to focus on this election and to work with Peter to help get a win for our side. We also wanted continue a trend. Since the 2010 election there have been three specials two of which we have won big and one we lost to a pro-union moderate Republican in a three way. In this last election Speaker of the House’s candidate got trounced. In other words the Republican that won was not the choice of the Republican leaders in Concord. So we sort of won by default.
So after Democratic pounded the phones, pounded the pavement the election results are in.
Town Simpson-R Leishman-D Simpson-R Leishman-D
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Peterborough 358 915 28% 72%
Sharon 27 68 28% 72%
New Ipswich 369 160 70% 30%
Greenville 70 117 37% 63%
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Total 824 1260 40% 60%
BA BOOOM! A complete and utter defeat of the Republicans!
To say I am feeling a little full of myself tonight would be an understatement 🙂
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