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By Dana Wormald | New Hampshire Bulletin
"I Voted" stickers, designed by New Hampshire fourth and fifth graders, line the railings outside Webster Elementary School in Manchester on Nov. 3, 2026. (Photo by Maya Mitchell/New Hampshire Bulletin)
In these first days of a new political era, the simplest explanation for what transpired on Election Day is also the most common one: The American people have rejected the Trump administration’s Iran war, and they are sick of getting squeezed by the price of gasoline, groceries, healthcare, childcare, housing, college, and on and on.
If that is in fact what spurred the American rebuke of the Republican Party this week, from coast to coast and up and down ballots, this was a largely reactionary election.
A potential blip, but a profound one nonetheless.
I wonder, though, whether the shift in New Hampshire runs deeper.
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