You forgot to add, "Of course these figures were calculated before the small town flap."

We are pleased with our numbers from the last quarter. Governor Shaheen received donations from nearly 6,500 donors, including 4,000 first-time donors.

New Hampshire is ready for a Senator with new ideas who is focused on the interests of the middle class. Americans are ready for change in DC. These numbers show that.

Check out her plan for simplifying tax filing as one example:

Jonathan Schleifer
Dir. of Online Communication
Shaheen for Senate

This is no surprise. The Club for Growth has been pouring money on Sununu for months.

I am a Democrat living in New Hampshire. This is what I wrote to Governor Shaheen's campaign. I actually sent this letter to the campaign twice, first by itself and then a second time with a small contribution. They did not respond.

Dear Governor Shaheen,

I am a Democratic voter who lives in Sandwich, New Hampshire. I am writing in response to your several requests for support. You have my vote. You will most likely have my modest financial support. But I am saddened to say that I cannot give you my activism and my enthusiasm.

My wife and I are supporters of Senator Obama's. We strongly believe that he is and was a fine candidate and that he will make a good and great President. We supported his campaign both with money and our hard work. We hosted events in our home and we help set up other local events. We canvassed and organized volunteers and in the final days in January we opened our home as a staging area and phone bank.

I had hoped to be able to continue our active support for New Hampshire Democrats. I listened with increasing enthusiasm when talk of your run for Senate first was heard. I looked forward to helping your campaign. I dreamed of the day when you and others would bring a stronger Democratic majority to the Senate.

Then your husband's role in the primary campaign of Senator Clinton became more and more pernicious and troubling. His support for Senator Clinton would not be an issue for me; nor would your own support for any candidate whom I did not favor. At issue for me is the dishonest tactics that your husband used in attacking Senator Obama. In 1992 our party decided that youthful drug use should not disqualify a candidate. Your husband's remarks were a calculated attempt to use dirty tactics to wound an opponent. That is not the kind of party for which I want to work. That is not the kind of campaign to which I want to devote myself.

I know that you and your husband are distinct people. At the same time, when someone so close to a candidate does something to which I object so firmly, I find it hard to commit myself fully to that candidate.

I wish you well and I wish you success. I simply cannot shake my reservations after the events of last December.

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Center Sandwich, New Hampshire