Like most of you, I have been deeply frustrated by the political parties’ inability to work together both at the federal and state level. Normally, the Democrats are just left of center, the Republicans just right of center, and the electorate squarely in the middle, voting with Democrats on social issues and with Republicans on economic and security issues.

The electorate typically does not change much but political parties do. In 2010, New Hampshire swung strongly to a Republican majority following the slow recovery to the economic recession, taking both houses of the Legislature and a new Republican senator as a reaction to concerns over the economy and a desire to moderate spending.

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