Comments on: The Impossible Happened In New Hampshire, Ctd.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 04:56:03 +0000

JohnAGJ,

Even if a Republican governor is elected this year, it’s a given that Democrats will gain back many of the seats that they lost in 2010, so the Republicans will have a much smaller majority.

By: JohnAGJ

JohnAGJ — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:14:47 +0000

I wonder if this will hold should a GOP governor be elected to replace Lynch this year?

By: Priya Lynn

Priya Lynn — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:37:37 +0000

Oh dear, LOL.

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:33:07 +0000

Priya Lynn,

I swear this is true: I started to type “from your mouth to God’s ears”. Glad I caught myself.

Instead I’ll just say: I certainly hope you are right.

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:31:00 +0000

Earlier votes had a total of 350, an absence of 50 legislators. So at least 20 sat in their seat and chose not to vote. Some of that 20 might be part of the 11 missing Democrats but at least half were Republicans.

That means that they didn’t even do the “unavoidable previous engagement” route but for whatever reason refused to either support marriage equality or revoke it. Perhaps they will say that without the referendum they don’t know what their constituents wanted.

I don’t care. I’m just delighted they didn’t vote for repeal.

By: Priya Lynn

Priya Lynn — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:41:47 +0000

Yes, I think this might be a turning point.

By: Lindoro Almaviva

Lindoro Almaviva — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:30:22 +0000

Let’s hope that these legislators will be able to talk to other Republican legislators in other states and start a real trend.