Is New Hampshire True Blue

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By Jon Greenberg on Wednesday, November 8, 2006.
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So now that the election night is over, and Democrats in New Hampshire have won on an historic scale, the question remains, "what does it all mean?"

Republicans are blaming their losses on what they are calling a perfect storm: a popular Governor, an unpopular war, and a struggling party.

Democrats are crowing.

But has New Hampshire become a true blue state?

Or was Tuesday's election an anomaly and in two more years the state will go back to its purplish red hue?

St Anselm College Political Science Professor Dante Scala keeps track of the blue towns and the red towns across New Hampshire.

And he tells NHPR's Jon Greenberg that Republicans shouldn't take the state's voters for granted.

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