Business groups to target Hodes over Labor Day

The Hill is reporting that business groups will target Democrat Rep. and Senate hopeful Paul Hodes during the Labor Day break with events designed to highlight his record on workplace issues: Business groups plan to go on offense against vulnerable Senate Democrats in their backyards to mark Monday’s Labor Day holiday. Local groups will target [...]

Why Did Hodes Pull His Attack Ad?

Yesterday Now! Hampshire broke the story that Democrat senate candidate Paul Hodes had pulled his latest attack after only airing it for one week. Today politicos speculated as to why Hodes made such an unusual move. The opinions fell into two broad groups, either that Hodes pulled the ad due to the overwhelming negative response [...]

***EXCLUSIVE: Hodes Pulls Negative Ad Buy

Now! Hampshire has learned that Democrat senate candidate Paul Hodes has pulled his ad buy for the week. After weeks and hundreds of thousands of dollars attacking his likely GOP opponent Kelly Ayotte, Hodes went up with yet another negative ad last week, doubling his ad buy to nearly $100,000 a week. By the end [...]

NH GOP Calls for Investigation of Hodes Push-Polling

Today the NH GOP filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s office over allegations that the campaign of democrat Paul Hodes engaged in illegal push polling. The complaint can be read here.

Union Leader: Hodes Hates Ayotte

In an editorial today that only ran in their print edition, the Union Leader declares that Democrat senate candidate Paul Hodes “hates” likely GOP nominee Kelly Ayotte and that his campaign is getting increasingly negative. The paper notes that 69% of all Hodes press releases are attacks on Ayotte, as are the only two TV [...]

Hodes Uses Bait and Switch Trick in Latest Attack on Ayotte

It’s the oldest trick in the book. A politician runs clips of his opponent where the opponent appears to contradict himself. But the truth is that the opponent is actually referring to two different things in the clips and is not contradicting himself at all. That’s exactly what Democrat US senate candidate Paul Hodes tries [...]

Hurricane Sarah Hits NH, Endorses Ayotte

Today Sarah Palin endorsed former AG Kelly Ayotte’s senate bid, setting off an earthquake that shook the political landscape in New Hampshire. Within minutes of the endorsement, headlines started screaming on blogs and newsites on the state and national scene. Ayotte’s Democratic opponent Paul Hodes and liberal blog Blue Hampshire started hyperventilating almost immediately, while [...]

Hodes clings to card check, Big Labor

One would think that when your campaign has hit bottom in the eyes of people watching the race for U.S. Senate, you would at least try to build bridges with constituencies that are not currently in your camp. Democrat Senate hopeful Paul Hodes is getting creamed in the polls, getting creamed even worse in the [...]

Ayotte Takes it to Hodes in New Video

US senate candidate Kelly Ayotte continued to pound Democrat opponent Paul Hodes, releasing a new webvideo that calls him out on his attack ad. Hodes’ ad has been widely panned, and Ayotte’s response quotes from the newspaper editorials that have trashed him for it. Fosters Daily Democrat called it “nasty”, the Union Leader denounced it [...]

Ayotte Calls on Hodes to Release HIS Emails

In a turnabout-is-fair-play move, US senate candidate Kelly Ayotte today called upon her opponent Democrat Paul Hodes to show his commitment to transparency and open government by releasing his official emails. And now that thousands of her emails have been released, she suggested he take down the widely panned ad he is running claiming that [...]

Next Page »