Jennifer Donahue, NHIOP Senior Advisor, recently was featured in a Washington Post article and video. Please visit the Saint Anselm College blog to view the video.
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Military Moms May Be a Force at the Polls
One of the foremost experts on politics in the Granite State thinks she has found the next critical constituency: military moms.
"She would typically be a Republican who is not against war and is not necessarily against this war -- or at least may have supported it when it began," Jennifer Donahue, senior adviser for political affairs at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College, said over sodas at the Red Arrow Diner last week.
The military mom -- who has either a child or a husband who is serving -- is disenchanted with the war. The question is: Will she shift allegiance to support a Democrat, or is she looking for an independent-minded Republican?
Full article (which may require Post registration) is available online.