New Hampshire is one of the 14 states with straight-ticket voting devices on ballots. The chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, Kathy Sullivan, said on November 14 that Democrats should use their new power in state government to eliminate it. Democrats have been complaining about it for years, and Sullivan said it would be wrong for the party to abandon its stance, even if the temptation is there for the Democrats to leave it in place and hope it benefits them in the future.

In what was probably the most surprising result anywhere in the nation, the Democrats now have both houses of the New Hampshire legislature, even though the Republican majority in the state house had been approximately 100 seats before that election. Democrats also hold the Governor’s chair, although that had been expected.