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Republicans of New Hampshire (one of the whitest states in the US) nominate a black former police chief for US Congress — 12 Comments

  1. I happily voted for Edwards. A lot of NH’s African-American population is either A) From NY or MA in the last two decades, or B) actually from Africa. We are a major resettlement area relative to our size. The former will be city Democrats, many of the latter are not registered. The African-Americans in the suburbs are more 30-70. I don’t think there are many rural.

    He has an uphill climb. Pappas’s family restaurant (I graduated with his parents) the Puritan Backroom, is easily the best-known in the state, and has been for three generations (my mother was at HS with Chris’s grandparents). If you are Old Manchester, you run into people you know every time you go in. Most of them know one of the Pappas’s or knew the Canotas’s. I am told that Chris is likeable, which does not surprise me.

    Republican Andy Sanborn ran a very negative campaign against Edwards, who did not respond in kind.

  2. AVI:

    I agree that in a state like NH the family reputation is good for a lot of votes. However, I’ve not yet seen any polls in the 1st. And Edwards is very personable too. Also, he’s got a lot of creds involving the opioid epidemic, which is a big deal in NH.

    All in all, though, I think Pappas is somewhat favored. I hope not.

  3. Levi, son of Bernie Sanders, came in sixth or something similar. Daddy did not endorse because “family does not believe in dynasties”.
    But Levi did work in Daddy’s campaigns!

  4. BTW, Edwards is not the only black New Englander standing for election where a mostly white constituency will vote him up or vote him down. It used to be that black politicians thought they needed black voters to be elected. No more.

  5. AVI:
    Pappas’s family restaurant (I graduated with his parents) the Puritan Backroom, is easily the best-known in the state..

    Used to be that Greeks running restaurants in New England stuck to either Greek or pizza. They are branching out. From the name of “Puritan Backroom,” I made the assumption that it served traditional New England fare- Indian pudding, stuff like that- but from looking at the menu I conclude it serves standard American restaurant fare. Back in the day I used to work at an inn that served traditional New England fare- cooked by Lebanese. Is that appropriating ? 🙂 They did served Lebanese food at special request.

  6. Gringo:

    There’s a little bit of Greekitude in the Puritan Backroom menu. Kebobs of many sorts, Greek macaroni and cheese, and Greek salads with everything. Baklava is among the desserts.

    In New England—as you probably know—Greeks are overrepresented in the restaurant business and way overrepresented in the pizza business. They also are very active in Democratic politics. For example, we have (or had) Dukakis, Tsongas (my favorite), and Olympia Snowe as the most prominent.

    Pappas combines the two: restaurants and Democratic politics.

  7. Richard Aubrey- here in Michigan our Republican nominee for Senate is John James, a 37 year-old African American. He’s a West Point graduate, flew 400+ combat missions in Iraq as an Apache helicopter pilot, came home to earn an MBA and became CEO of his family business in Detroit.

    I’ve been to a couple of rallies and he’s a charismatic speaker with a beautiful young family. He has an uphill battle, being hugely outspent by the campaign of the current Democrat Senator Debbie Stabenow, but I think with enough support he could pull this off and be the future of the Republican Party. You can check him out at Johnjamesforsenate.com.

  8. The picture of Edwards with, I presume, his wife and their respective dogs is priceless. Proof right there of the profound differences between the sexes. Of course my deplorable brain is saying that poodle could be a dog whistle…….

  9. The Puritan Backroom was originally just The Puritan and had 4 locations where they sold candy and ice cream. They branched out early into the sort of diner and drive-in food that ice cream places had: burgers, hot dogs. High school kids went there after football and basketball games.

    @neo – I had forgotten the opioid piece. Politicians saying “I care” and looking serious may not be enough here right now. Though that has worked for a lot of ’em up until now.

  10. @ n.n. – he’s not transgender. It hurts the cause when you write things like that.

    The cause, of course, being founded on the idea that we are dealing with reality, not mind-reading and what people wish were true.

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