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T-Paw to New Hampshire: ‘Ponzi’ government’s health reforms will go bankrupt

By Chris Steller | 12.16.09 | 2:51 pm

pawlentyThe federal government is running a Ponzi scheme,” Gov. Pawlenty told a New Hampshire radio audience Wednesday, and if pending reforms are enacted, federal health care programs are destined for bankruptcy.

Locals give Pawlenty a Frosty send-off

By Chris Steller | 12.16.09 | 11:48 am

RobertFrostMichele Bachmann wasn’t alone Tuesday in probing unlikely links between politics and poetry. Two Minnesota bloggers also used poetry to illuminate the political landscape, adapting familiar lines by the late New Hampshire poet Robert Frost to Gov.

Has Pawlenty lost a 2012 rival and gained a Granite State backer?

By Chris Steller | 12.01.09 | 10:06 am

The ranks of GOP presidential rivals who poll higher than Gov. Tim Pawlenty may soon thin if doomsayers are correct about Mike Huckabee’s future. Pundits (and Republicans) say the former Arkansas governor is on the ropes…

New Hampshire becomes sixth state to legalize gay marriage

By Andy Birkey | 06.03.09 | 4:48 pm

On Wednesday afternoon, the New Hampshire Legislature passed and Gov. John Lynch signed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in that state. New Hampshire is now the sixth state to legalize marriage for gays and lesbians and the fourth to do…

New Hampshire: Step 2 on the long road

By Joe Bodell | 01.09.08 | 7:30 am

No one ever said it was going to be easy to win the presidential nomination.

Well, some did.  But they were wrong.

Proving most of the tracking polls wrong, Hillary Clinton pulled out a narrow win over Barack Obama in…

Inside the mind of a N.H. primary voter

By Joe Bodell | 01.08.08 | 7:45 am

What are voters in New Hampshire thinking?

It’s a tough question for most of us in Minnesota to answer, since we’re approximately 1,400 miles away from the Granite State.  Plenty of national media are on the ground there, so we…

Campaign notebook: Rumble in the Granite State

By Joe Bodell | 01.07.08 | 9:12 am

After a surprising (to some) result in Iowa, the remaining presidential candidates have pulled up stakes and flown to New Hampshire for the first-in-the-nation primary tomorrow. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois sits in the Democratic…