Shock Poll: Newcomer Binnie tied with Hodes

A second poll in less than a week shows New Hampshire Republican Senate candidate Bill Binnie gaining significant traction in the race to replace the retiring Judd Gregg.
A new Rasmussen poll has Binnie with a one-point lead over Rep. Paul Hodes, the only Democrat in the race. Binnie would earn 42% to Hodes’ 41% [...]

Binnie leaves door open for tax increases (Update: Campaign disagrees)

Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Bill Binnie seems to be open to raising taxes to reduce the deficit, a video of a recent candidate forum shows.
Answering a question this weekend about whether he supports a special commission to reduce the federal budget deficit, Binnie said, “I think it was a very good idea and I [...]

NH primary veteran Steve Forbes endorses Lamontagne

Two-time contender for the Republican presidential nomination in New Hampshire Steve Forbes is lending his name to the campaign of Senate hopeful Ovide Lamontagne. Forbes was the favorite of many Granite State conservatives in 1996 and 2000.
“I am proud to lend my name as a strong supporter of Ovide Lamontagne and his campaign for U.S. [...]

Ayotte out ahead in GOP Senate primary

The Senate campaign of Kelly Ayotte has released an internal polling memo showing them substantially ahead of the primary competition in the race to replace the retiring Judd Gregg.
The memo, from Ayotte’s pollster to the campaign, shows Ayotte winning 43% of the Republican vote to rivals Ovide Lamontagne’s 11% and Bill Binnie’s 5%. Binnie is [...]

Pro-life leaders react with alarm to Binnie’s abortion comments

ew Hampshire’s pro-life community is reacting with alarm to Republican Senate Hopeful Bill Binnie’s answer to a question as to why he is pro-choice.
“I am greatly saddened by Mr. Binnie’s remarks,” said Barbara Hagan, a 40-year veteran of the pro-life movement and former President of New Hampshire Right to Life. “I could never decide whether [...]

Binnie Backs Scott Brown in Massachusetts

As Granite Status first reported this morning, New Hampshire Republican Senate Candidate Bill Binnie has begun airing two television ads in Massachusetts supporting Scott Brown’s U.S. Senate candidacy.
Dubbed “Americans for Responsible Heath Care,” the newly created 527 responsible for the advertisements will “remind the people of Massachusetts what is at stake with the proposed government [...]

Bill Binnie’s ads

Republican Bill Binnie is the first Senate candidate on the air in New Hampshire. Below are the two spots Binnie is promoting on his website. Together they portray a hardworking businessman with an American Dream backstory:
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OUR ECONOMY

Binnie makes moves to own January

The U.S. Senate campaign of Bill Binnie certainly is making aggressive moves to own the month of January. And beyond, perhaps.
Veteran Republican strategist, and Sununu family consigliore, Paul Collins started consulting for Binnie this week, placing a master of New Hampshire politics, ahem, behind the wheel of the Binnie operation. Binnie also impressed the [...]

Lamontagne, Binnie hammer Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary; Hodes silent

A day after New Hampshire Senate hopeful Kelly Ayotte called for the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano over the Obama administrations failed intelligence regarding and confused response to a Christmas Day terror attempt, Ayotte’s Republican opponents are also criticizing Napolitano.
Both Ovide Lamontagne and Bill Binne have issued harshly worded statements against Napolitano, but [...]

Binnie calls Kathy Sullivan an “astute political figure”

Senate candidate Bill Binnie continues to take heat for citing a former Democratic State Chairman Kathy Sullivan blog post as evidence that he “can win.” NowHampshire.com first covered the story on Tuesday.
John DiStaso quotes the campaign digging the hole a little deeper in today’s Union Leader:
But Binnie campaign manager Bryan Lanza said Sullivan “is a [...]

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