New Hampshire House Bill 35 would delete provision for the state’s vice-presidential primary. New Hampshire is the only state that holds such a primary, and very few people ever file in that primary for the office of vice-president. Those who do file are generally very little-known, and the press typically doesn’t even cover the vice-presidential primary results. Thanks to Howard Wilson for this news.
They should drop those races. There isn’t really much of a purpose to it.
That was one of my favorite races this year! It’s fascinating to see those results.
Just when I was going to make a run.
Hooray for wasting taxpayer dollars!
This years VP winners in NH were:
REPUBLICAN – John Barnes, a member of the NH Senate , 17th district (He ran unopposed)
DEMOCRAT – Raymond Stebbins – 50,485 (46.93%)
William Bryk – 22,965 (21.35%)
John Edwards* – 10,553 (9.81%)
Barack Obama* 6,402 (5.95%)
Bill Richardson* – 5,525 (5.14%)
Hillary Rodham Clinton* – 3,419 (3.18%)
Joe Biden* – 1,512 (1.41%)
Al Gore* – 966 (0.90%)
Dennis Kucinich* – 762 (0.71%)
Bill Clinton* – 388 (0.36%)
John McCain* – 293 (0.27%)
Christopher Dodd* – 224 (0.21%)
Ron Paul* – 176 (0.16%)
Jack Barnes, Jr.* – 95 (0.09%)
Mike Gravel* – 91 (0.09%)
Joe Lieberman* – 67 (0.06%)
Mitt Romney* – 66 (0.06%)
Mike Huckabee* – 63 (0.06%)
Rudy Giuliani* – 46 (0.04%)
Darrel Hunter* – 20 (0.02%)
Stebbins, is an attorney who has never held political office, and he beat runner up Byrk, who was the winner of the Republican VP race in NH in 2000.
During the campaign, his bumper stickers “Vote for Ray Stebbins, Vice President”, included phrases “easy to remove” and “so you wouldn’t have it on there for years”.
It made headlines twice. In 1972, when when some voters in NH tried to embarrass Spiro Agnew off the GOP ticket, and in 1980, when Senator Jesse Helms supported his name going on the ballot to get ready for a possible run for vice president at the Republican Convention.