The Price Of Failure

In a district that is 36% Republican, 32% Democrat, and 32% Independent, Jeff Goley and the NH Democrat party, if I'm reading this right, spent close to $60K (maybe more by the final report) to turn a 4% registration deficit into a 16% loss.  Talk about bad ROI. 

Dave Boutin took every town, and every Ward, including Jeff Goley’s own Ward in a 58% to 42% sweep.  Boutin collected 3796 to Goley’s 2756 with what looks like less than 17% of registered voters casting a ballot. 

All that money and the liberals could not turn out voters, nor could they sway independents.  They had glossy mailers that lied about Goley’s record.  There were even little stickers on the paper that tried to make Goley look like a low tax/no tax candidate.  But nobody bought it?

It's almost like Ray Buckley has created a microcosm of what plagues the larger liberal spending policies.  Bucket loads of money, and no results.

I guess all that’s left to do is blame George Bush, or maybe global warming.

Comments

[Steven J. Connolly]

It would be interesting to see how the 60K number is accounted for. I think the only real hard currency cost of this unsuccesful campaign would be the signs, postage meters and the ads that were purchased. I'll put the actual number closer to 17K.

I'm confident that there were many volunteers that gave countless hours supporting a campaign and candidate and their only compensation: Thanks!
I think Goley did quite well. And it has nothing to do with larger issues, larger parties and statewide and national politics. Boutin won by a thousand votes. Impressive.

So now the election is over...

And the Senator-Elect will have to start delivering on what he has campaigned on. Never mind the campaign itself. Never mind the fact that there has been no plan or strategy to "get people back to work." And never mind the candidate himself has no real experience with the very issues he has campaigned on.

So it goes. I'll bet Senators Bradley and Boutin will give some interesting talks on the floor of the Senate about all that can be done in New Hampshire.

If anyone will just listen.

[NH]

The best thing is that the voters SOUNDLY rejected Raymond Buckley's lying and deceitful tactics.. I mean has the man no shame in what he does??? Word to Democrats: don't dare think you will lie about your records and get away with it.

I am confident Boutin will vote NO on an income tax, will try his best to repeal the LLC tax, and further, perhaps we can roll back some of the 63 new draconian taxes imposed by this progressive legislature as well as some of the crazy controlling laws they've instituted.

We have a lot of work to do after we take back our state from the far left fringes. Get that repeal and rescind stamp out!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeehaw!

[Steve Mac Donald]

Maybe it cost less. It looks like the NHDP spent 20K on postage alone, and Goley spent 15K on his own, so thats 35K from go.

As to Mr, Boutin being effective, this keeps coming up, and it's a fair point. We have a spending problem. We need to cut off the revenue and force cutbacks. And we need to do it without the BS about teachers and firefighters being hit hardest. We didn't grow education and public safety by 23% in two budgets, it is therefore not unrealistic to roll it back without impacting the sweet spot of public rhetoric wielded to scare the people into signing off on more of the same. Mr. Boutin has suggested he would make that a priority. The people in Senate dist 16 have just asked him to try.

[working]

Why is the the State's job to 'get people' working?
Shouldn't the State just get out of the way of people and then they will work. And the State can do that by cutting taxes not raising them.

[Steve Mac Donald]

I think the state's job is to protect and defend an environment where private business and the free market can create and compete for jobs. I can't speak for Mr. Connelly's intent but that's my view.

The state does this best by keeping goverment lean and the burocracy light. By keeping taxes low and the control local. Most importantly, the state needs to get the hell out of the way whenever possible.

[Steve Mac Donald]

To finish that thought... a plan to get people back to work would be a plan to cut spending, cut taxes, roll bag regulation, and open up competition in a way that reduces costs and allows the free market to convert that savings into productivity and growth.

(instead of adding public sector union employees, a portion of whose taxpayer subsidized payroll ends up in union dues and democrat campaign coffers)