After 2022, you might be under the impression that New Hampshire’s voters are complacent and satisfied with the status quo. On the Republican side, the uber-competent moderate Chris Sununu was reelected governor by 15 points, and the party kept control of both houses of the state legislature, increasing its share of the popular vote by a couple of points. On the Democratic side, Maggie Hassan was reelected to the Senate by nine points after winning in 2016 by just 1,014 votes, and Democrats easily held on to both of the state’s congressional seats, with Chris Pappas reelected by nine points and Anne Kuster by eleven points.
Early presidential polling, however, suggests a restive undercurrent that could blossom into another of the rebellions that have often characterized the New Hampshire primary and the state’s stereotypically flinty independence. On the Democratic side, Joe Biden has never been well-liked there. It was in New Hampshire in 1987 that Biden suffered the most famous fib-filled public meltdown of his 1988 presidential campaign:
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