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"The district:New Hampshire\u2019s 1st Congressional District comprises of the greater Manchester area, the Seacoast and Lakes Region.Who is running:- Incumbent Democrat Carol Shea-Porter, of Rochester, is seeking a fourth term. She lost re-election in 2010, but won the seat back in 2012.- Republican challenger Frank Guinta, the former Manchester mayor, defeated Shea-Porter in 2010 and served a term in Congress, but lost to her 2012.- Republican challenger Dan Innis, of Portsmouth, is the former dean of the University of New Hampshire\u2019s business school. He is also one of three married gay male Republicans running for Congress in the country.Current status:WMUR Political Scoop: TossupCook Political Report: Democratic TossupRothenberg Political Report: Tossup/Tilt DemocratLarry Sabato\u2019s Crystal Ball: TossupThe state of the race: Lackluster campaign is good news for Guinta and Shea-PorterThe fact that there have been no significant developments in the race means it is all the more likely that Guinta and Shea-Porter will face off for a third consecutive time in the general election.The only person able to really change that is former UNH business school dean Dan Innis. Once again it must be said that Innis is a super-interesting candidate in theory, but it also has to be said that it doesn't really appear that his heart is into the race. There are three months left in his primary contest. By all objective measures he is behind Guinta. There is always the possibility a candidate could close strong, but it is hard to see how. He has no campaign office (they are working out of a hotel he owns in Portsmouth.) He hasn't replaced his finance director since she left for Scott Brown two months ago. Last week he took a day off the campaign trail and got his annual physical.\u00A0Neither of the two SuperPACs that have pledged to run television ads to back up Innis have done so.In the meantime Shea-Porter and Guinta appear to be quietly putting together the basics for the eight week general election sprint after the Sept. 9 primary.Guinta has impressively used his network to show supporters in nearly every community in the district. Shea-Porter is raising money and hiring staff.What to watch for:For the next few weeks this is all about whether Innis and the SuperPACs backing him can get anything going. Beginning next month this will only be harder to accomplish as the U.S. Senate race continues to take up all the oxygen."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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