New Hampshire’s Veteran Democrat Keeps Congressional Seat

Annie Kuster, one of New Hampshire’s longest-serving members of U.S. Congress, has upset a challenge by Republican Robert Burns for her seat in the state’s 2nd Congressional district.
The Associated Press called the race with Kuster garnering 56.7 percent of the vote, versus Burns’s 43.3 percent with 60 percent reporting of the votes as of 2:17 a.m. ET on Nov. 9.
The veteran politician has maintained ultra-liberal viewpoints in her representation of the “Live Free or Die” state.
She is one of Congress’ most staunch abortion rights advocate and in a radio interview with New Hampshire NPR during her campaign, tied the threat of the roll back of abortion rights to the current inflation, saying that “government-mandated” pregnancies come at a time “when families can’t afford to have another baby.”…}