A Big Obama Endorsement In New Hampshire

The Obama campaign is bragging about a "major" addition to the "national" campaign tomorrow -- an endorsement, in other words, that merits more than a press release. Obama will be joined by the mystery addition in Concord, NH.

Who is it? The adjective "national" may throw some people off. But I'd bet that the endorsee is tied to New Hampshire, and the buzz around the state today is that it will be none other than Rep. Paul Hodes who represents New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district. Hodes upset GOP Rep. Charlie Bass in last year's election. Hodes's colleague, Rep. Carol Shea Porter, has yet to endorse.

Obama's campaign declined to comment; I couldn't get in touch with Hodes's operatives.

Comments

Could it be Gov. Lynch? He has said he would stay out of things, but who knows? Maybe Sununu will jump ship and endorse a Dem to save his ass come November 08?

Posted by Noah | July 25, 2007 6:10 PM

Nevermind. It is Paul Hodes. CNN has it:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/07/25/granite-sate-congressman-to-support-obama/

Posted by Noah | July 25, 2007 6:13 PM

Yeah, it's Hodes, that's who I immediately thought of even before I saw the CNN piece...

Hodes has been on the campaign trail with Obama here in New Hampshire before, and I've seen him talk about Obama in glowing terms introducing him at events, etc. Not a major surprise, but two Congressional endorsements in two days for Obama? (Steve Rothman, D-NJ endorsed him on Wednesday) That's not too shabby.

Maybe the Obama camp saw Clinton get the Feinstein endorsement and asked a few people to give them some good endorsement news to counter it with?

Posted by Arlen | July 25, 2007 7:57 PM

Obama is a racist caught pandering to the LaRAZA with Hillary the other day....a group that wants to eradicate the white people and take over the land.

He is not fit (nor she) for dog-catcher...let alone president.

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