DREAM MATCH-UP? It’s probably not going to happen, but if Gov. Chris Sununu were to do an about-face next year and take on Sen. Jeanne Shaheen it would be a dream matchup – and a recent poll shows it would be likely to be a close one.Emerson College, as part of a poll that was mostly focused on presidential politics, matched up the two popular officials in a hypothetical U.S. Senate contest.The result was an absolute dead heat.Sununu and Shaheen each received 44 percent and 12 percent were undecided. The polling sample of 910 registered voters included 51 percent women and 49 percent men, and 41.4 percent of the sample were registered independent (undeclared), 30.3 percent were Republicans and 28.3 percent were Democrats.It all makes for interesting conversation, if nothing else.And as we reported this morning, former House Speaker Bill O’Brien is now seriously considering challenging Shaheen.

DREAM MATCH-UP? It’s probably not going to happen, but if Gov. Chris Sununu were to do an about-face next year and take on Sen. Jeanne Shaheen it would be a dream matchup – and a recent poll shows it would be likely to be a close one.

Emerson College, as part of a poll that was mostly focused on presidential politics, matched up the two popular officials in a hypothetical U.S. Senate contest.


The result was an absolute dead heat.

Sununu and Shaheen each received 44 percent and 12 percent were undecided. The polling sample of 910 registered voters included 51 percent women and 49 percent men, and 41.4 percent of the sample were registered independent (undeclared), 30.3 percent were Republicans and 28.3 percent were Democrats.

It all makes for interesting conversation, if nothing else.

And as we reported this morning, former House Speaker Bill O’Brien is now seriously considering challenging Shaheen.