By now, everyone who’s following the drive to turn New England’s Senate delegation as 100% blue as the House delegation will soon be (Chris Shays will be gone by 2009, I’ll tell you), by 2012, knows that Jeanne Shaheen has finally announced that she is running against John Sununu. They probably have also found out a good deal about Katrina Swett, who also hoped to unseat Sununu not too long ago. Swett is an unelected (and it now looks, perpetually aspiring) politician who is a big supporter of Joe Lieberman (even if she’s backed away from him recently, because she knows how much it hurts to be associated with him in a Democratic primary).
Up until today, on Swett’s website, there is an alliteration-adorned graphic entitled "Swett’s Super Summer Success" where she touts the fact that she is "the strongest of announced Democratic candidates against Sununu". Time to tell whoever designs your campaign website that it’s badly in need of an update, Katrina.
I’m sure Swett is aware of the most recent University of New Hampshire poll showing Shaheen leading Sununu 54-38%, it’s only a matter of accepting the inevitable fact that she simply has no choice but to drop her bid, and letting New Hampshire voters know she has accepted reality.
I know there have been some criticisms of Shaheen, that she is a bit too "moderate"... and that Steve Marchand might have made a better, more progressive, US Senator, and would perhaps even stand a better chance to win the race after it begins in earnest. But I'm sure there's one thing people who prefer Shaheen and people who prefer Marchand can all agree on -- Lieberdem Swett makes Shaheen look like a total, unabashed, dye-in-the-wool progressive.