Having voted by absentee ballot because of a planned trip to Washington during election week, I found myself surprisingly detached from the angst and anger that came to a crescendo early this month. That doesn’t mean that I was indifferent to the various outcomes. Indeed, there were some real disappointments, but many of them had emanated from the primaries.
Considering the value of Rep. Karen Umberger’s influential legislative position, her defeat only made sense in the context of the reflexive partisanship in the heavily colonized northern end of Carroll County, where the Massachusetts mindset predominates. Up here, the Democratic Party’s “extremist” trope played well, especially among those too lazy to do any homework on candidates. That gave Democrats a slight gain in House seats statewide, but the tactic didn’t succeed everywhere. In other places, the term “extremist” may simply have carried a different connotation.
And of course, there were the compliant media outlets that once again did their part in highlighting the paucity of positive Democrat achievements they could while simultaneously framing all Republican candidates as "Trump-supporting extremists",
Funny how they completely downplayed or overlooked our failing economy, skyrocketing fuel costs, out-of-control illegal immigration, and all the negative impacts of an ill-conceived Covid response. But worse was the full-on propaganda/fear campaign by the media and Democrats regarding abortion. The truth is this; Abortions were still legal in New Hampshire even as a result of the SCOTUS decision.
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And of course, there were the compliant media outlets that once again did their part in highlighting the paucity of positive Democrat achievements they could while simultaneously framing all Republican candidates as "Trump-supporting extremists",
Funny how they completely downplayed or overlooked our failing economy, skyrocketing fuel costs, out-of-control illegal immigration, and all the negative impacts of an ill-conceived Covid response. But worse was the full-on propaganda/fear campaign by the media and Democrats regarding abortion. The truth is this; Abortions were still legal in New Hampshire even as a result of the SCOTUS decision.
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