A look back at the FEC preview

Actually Wally, Bradley did not "raise" nearly as much as you report. When you break down the numbers, he's "loaned" is campaign over $350,000, including $90,000 in Q1 and $50,000 last quarter. In other words, while Mr. Stephen has enjoyed support to the tune of over $260,000 FROM INDIVIDUALS in the last 2 quarters, Bradley saw less than half of that amount.

In 2006, CSP called Bradley a "borrow and spend" candidate. She was right. That's what Jeb does. He thinks about the next election, not the next generation. Bottom line, Jeb failed miserably as a congressman, lost support among real fiscal conservatives, underestimated the campaign of CSP, then bonused the staff of failures who worked with him to lose. He left over $300,000 of unspent money in his political coffers in 2006. In short, he committed political malpractice in several, unforgivable ways. Now, he claims to be an agent of change? Puh-leeze, Jeb, I may have been born at night, but it was NOT last night.

Jeb Bradley is applying for a job at which he proved to be a failure. As a businessman, I'd never consider re-hiring a failure. After all, we have to live by the old axiom, fool me once, shame on you, but fool me twice, shame on me. I won't get fooled again and it appears that, when you look at from whence the money is coming and to whom, the citizens of the State of NH won't either.

Bob Clegg the frontrunner? That's a joke. The only thing Bob Clegg has is his good ole' boy attitude. He thinks that all he has to do is throw his money (or his wife's money) into a campaign and *poof* he will get elected. Evidently Clegg has found another way to waste his money by buying off dear Wally. Bob Clegg is the spitting image of what is wrong with politics today. How can one change Washington and bring real reform with the self-serving politics of Bob Clegg?

Essentially it looks as though this race has come down to Clegg and Horn. Clegg has the initial financial advantage due to his wife's deep pockets, but Horn has a much stronger grassroots donor pool with more small donors. Down the stretch I think Horn's fundamentals give her the advantage, but Clegg could possibly switch gears and get serious about campaigning. If Horn keeps up what she is doing and continues to build momentum she could be out in front by the end of August. Horn will be the Goliath that the other candidates, especially Horn, will chip away at steadily until he is beat.

Bosse is somewhat of a darkhorse at this point, but a very dark one at that. He simply is not a candidate that voters would naturally be attracted to which means he will have to work ten times harder then the rest. His fundraising numbers look better this time around, but it is doubtful that his appeal will broaden beyond the few little know "activists" highlighted in his "Posse".

Stiener is an attractive candidate on paper. He draws from a pretty wide background of experience, but his inability to raise funds makes him pretty much unviable. It's too bad for him. He would be a much better dark horse than Bosse if he had something approaching a real campaign structure.