Professor Stephen Pimpare was interviewed for an article in the Keene Sentinel. "NH's undeclared voters aren't the mystery country thinks they are" published Sunday, November 29.
Article excerpt:
New Hampshire’s undeclared voters are routinely the focus of many a national poll and pundit — it’s the endless quest of divining which way this nebulous bunch might swing the next big election.
Recent headlines in the Boston Globe, for example, point to this group as not only possibly determining the winners of the first-in-the-nation presidential primary, but as having grown more than 20 percent in the past 20 or so years.
But to experts here in New Hampshire this group is not as unique, large or mysterious as national outlets would lead one to believe.
“A good chunk of those undeclared are committed Republicans or committed Democrats who are hiding,” said Stephen Pimpare, lecturer of American politics and public policy at the University of New Hampshire at Manchester. “Too often for my money, people will talk about undeclared voters as either undecided voters or independent voters. And that tends not to be the case. As a general rule, because somebody is an undeclared voter doesn’t mean that they are not a partisan.”
Read the full story on the Keene Sentinel's website.
