Given that this year's election is a rematch between Shaheen and Sununu and that the validity of Sununu's "victory" in 2002 is questionable at best, Shaheen seems to be the stronger candidate in the New Hampshire Senate Race. Her support for middle class tax cuts, a stronger, more robust public education system, and her goal to lower the cost of health care are all major issues that have left the majority of New Hampshire citizens (if not quite a few Americans) skeptical of any Republican platform.

That is a very heavy "If" in regards to Sununu's being convinced to vote in favor of beginning to withdraw our troops from Iraq. Granted, while Sununu's opposition to the Patriot Act and his support for clean energy are strong (and refreshing) stands by a Republican Senator, the impact of our continued involvement in Iraq is and will continue to have a dramatic impact on our economic ability to pursue clean energy and improve our current domestic economic crisis. Jeanne Shaheen supports the efforts towards Clean Energy and she is also against a prolonged U.S. military presence in Iraq.

Both candidates in the tight U.S. Senate race in New Hampshire have ties to the Middle East. Incumbent Senator John E. Sununu has Lebanese and Palestinian heritage from his father's side, former three-term governor John H. Sununu, who was also White House Chief of Staff for President George H.W. Bush. Former Gov. Sununu was the only U.S. governor to oppose a resolution among governors to repeal an anti-Israeli United Nations resolution that "Zionism Equals Racism." He later reversed himself.

Bill Shaheen, husband of former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen and a former U.S. Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, also has Lebanese heritage and family ties to the Middle East. A former state chairman for the campaigns of Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, and Hillary Clinton, Mr. Shaheen has expressed interest in being part of a negotiating team to bring peace to the Middle East if Democrats win the White House.

The scandal involving the jamming of Shaheen 2002 Seante Campaign's phone lines in the Manchester area continues to damage the New Hampshire Republican Party (see link). Caught playing dirty on Election Day 2002, the state GOP lost two Congressinal seats in the 2004 election and two men went to federal prison. The ironic point about the phone jamming of Shaheen's get-out-the-vote effort is that Sununu won that election by 20,000 votes, while the two-hours of phone jamming prevented 800 phone calls. Sununu still would have won by more than 19,000 votes. Voters still angry over this illegal behavior, both Repulican and Democrat, may give Shaheen the edge in this rematch, even though there is no evidence that Sununu was involved.

On Monday of this week (August 11th), both Shaheen and Sununu released statements in support of tax incentives for energy developers and users of clean energy in hopes that these breaks will help to invigorate our economy and eventually lower gas and oil prices.

Although both of the candidates are very closely aligned in regards to clean energy policies and initiatives, Sununu is strongly in favor of lifting the ban on offshore drilling while Shaheen claims that the oil companies need to continue drilling on the lands they have already leased.

She opposes the congressional trend of resorting to the oil industries to determine effective legislation on energy policies and is firmly committed to investing more in efforts to develop alternative and renewable resources apart from oil. A commitment to unchaining our economic dependence on the oil industry will provide long-term opportunities and benefits to our economic stability and progress, our national security, and the preservation of the environment.

In a rematch from 2002, former Democratic Governor Jeanne Shaheen again challenges Republican John E. Sununu to represent New Hampshire in the United States Senate. Sununu, the youngest U.S. Senator at age 44, is a close ally of the Republican nominee for president, Senator John McCain. Polling has consistently shown Shaheen in the lead, with the current Rasmussen poll showing a tightening race, 51% to 45% for Sununu.

What we need in office is someone who will stand up for what is right to do scientifically. Sununu could have overturned the vote for President Bush's veto of embryonic stem cell research, but accepted the Presidents decision instead.

This country frequently has an abundance of money, life, and know how, and losing 7 years of ingenuity in any one scientific field is a travesty. We should be moving forward on many planes, and be discovering new technologies to utilize. Shaheen has come out to say she will.

Jeanne Shaheen has had the experience of working as an Governor. Does the experience within the executive branch translate into success in a bipartisian matter. She claims to have developed a biparitisian energy policy. With the Senator not expected to reach a 60 vote majority for either party will she prove able to partner in bipartisian solution to problems

Sen. Sununu's Campaign manager has admitted to receiving illicit funds for their running in the election, but has only agreed to donate a portion of it to charity. Former Governor Shaheen has called for the entirety of the illicit contributions to be returned to the correct people or donated. I tend to agree with her.

Barrack Obama slightly leads McCain in the State of New Hampshire. Can Jeanne Shaheen reap benefit from this lead. Janne Shaheen is polling ahead of independence which is the population that McCain and Obama has been courting.

Gov. Jeanne Shaheen has made a pledge on her campagin website to support the middle class. This includes positive educational reforms, fair taxatin and health care reform. will her plans help the middle class

Governor's typically make better Presidential bids than Senators. If Shaheen can do a cleaner job than Sunnunu and exercise better fiscal judgement about things like, the war -you are looking at a very close race. The two are virtually the same on many issues. While Sunnunu grabbed his chance to call for Alberto Gonzalez's resignation, he can't quite get Abramoff's stink off. Scandal has nipped at Sunnunu's heels during his current tour in the U.S. senate. While Sunnunu's stance on civil liberties has been on the progressive side -I think Shaheen should have a shot at representing what she knows is on New Hampshire's radar. Civil liberties is considered a given for the Live Free or Die State.

Shaheen is most definitely a progressive when it comes to federal programs and medical research. She openly supports a new policy in Washington for stem cell research and hopes that New Hampshire will benefit from new medical breakthroughs in progressive science. She is unabashedly and passionately for a positive turnabout in the medical community to assist cancer patients without much hope in an area where money and time has been long diverted in the name of morality and religious ethics.

Shaheen: "These lines of research could hold the key to cures for diabetes, Parkinson's, spinal cord injuries – they could impact the lives of families like ours all across the country. We have already lost seven years in the development of potential treatments and cures – we can't afford to lose any more time. But we're not going to see a change in stem cell research policy until we change Senators. "