This is amazing
From the Portsmouth Herald:
Going from a constituency of 15,000 to 1.2 million would be quite a challenge, but political leaders in the state believe Portsmouth Mayor Steve Marchand may have the stuff to challenge U.S. Sen. John Sununu in 2008.
This is awesome. When Steve was press secretary and I was deputy press secretary on the Mark Fernald campaign, we used to talk about the 2002 Senate race that John Sununu won. I never would have imagined that Steve might be the guy to take him on in 2008!
And, for the record, I hope he does. People in the article call Steve "very smart, very personable" and "a very hard worker," all of which is true. He's also a fundamentally good guy and exactly the kind of person we need in the Senate. The article calls him "wildly popular" as mayor, and he's already shown a terrific ability to win over the ideologically disparate elements of the New Hampshire Democratic Party. I always thought former Governor Jeanne Shaheen would run against Sununu, but Steve Marchand may be an even better candidate.