{"id":11916,"date":"2012-09-26T17:17:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T21:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=11916"},"modified":"2012-09-26T17:40:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T21:40:47","slug":"obama-for-america-in-new-hampshire-rallies-for-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/09\/26\/obama-for-america-in-new-hampshire-rallies-for-small-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama For America N.H. Rallies Small Business Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small business owners are a contested demographic for the battling presidential campaigns.\u00a0A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thumbtack.com\/resources\/politics-2012\/GWU-Thumbtack-Political-Sentiment-Survey.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">September poll<\/a>\u00a0from George Washington University suggests the President is leading Governor Romney in support from small business owners, while an August poll by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/jessica-stillman\/poll-small-business-owners-swing-toward-supporting-mitt-romney.html\" target=\"_blank\">Manta<\/a> put Romney in the lead with a wide margin.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today, the Obama campaign in New Hampshire launched an initiative bringing attention to\u00a0New Hampshire&#8217;s small business owners who support President Obama. New Hampshire&#8217;s Obama for America office has released a list of business leaders and owners who have joined their cause.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>New Hampshire Business Leaders and Small Business Owners for Obama:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Melissa Aho of Dover<br \/>\nScott Baetz of Windham<br \/>\nJuan Baez of Nashua<br \/>\nChris Banus of Nashua<br \/>\nNancy Beach of Portsmouth<br \/>\nJillian Bergeron of Stratham<br \/>\nBetsy Black of Concord<br \/>\nMeredith Bohn of Hollis<br \/>\nJoyce Bowers of Kingston<br \/>\nMarjorie Briand of Dover<br \/>\nScott Brown of Hanover<br \/>\nEdward Butler of Harts Location<br \/>\nAlan Cantor of Concord<br \/>\nPhil Cassista of Chester<br \/>\nLeah Caswell of Stratham<br \/>\nDaniel Chartrand of Exeter<br \/>\nEva Christensen of Dover<br \/>\nEdward Clancy of Dover<br \/>\nKenneth Colburn of Meredith<br \/>\nErik Corbett of Glen<br \/>\nRichard Couch of Hanover<br \/>\nBarabara Couch of Hanover<br \/>\nSusan Covert of Hopkinton<br \/>\nKelly Defeo of Center Conway<br \/>\nDeborah Demoulpied of Bow<br \/>\nSusan Denenberg of Portsmouth<br \/>\nWilliam Duncan of New Castle<br \/>\nSharon Eng of Bow<br \/>\nShannon Fairchild of Moultonborough<br \/>\nJulia Ferrari of Ashuelot<br \/>\nCaroline French of Dover<br \/>\nWendy Frosh of Hampton<br \/>\nWilliam Garrison of Dover<br \/>\nH Frank Gibbard of Epping<br \/>\nRobert Gogolen of Keene<br \/>\nJohn Grimanis of Manchester<br \/>\nFrank Grossman of Hollis<br \/>\nBeth Gross-Santos of Portsmouth<br \/>\nRob Halverson of Keene<br \/>\nLinda A. F. Hammond of Cornish<br \/>\nMarcia Harrington of Hooksett<br \/>\nAnn Heffernon of North Swanzey<br \/>\nGary Hirshberg of Concord<br \/>\nStephen Jackson of Gorham<br \/>\nTeresa Kahn of Windham<br \/>\nMark Kaplan of Webster<br \/>\nKaren Liot Hill of Lebanon<br \/>\nRon King of Concord<br \/>\nMichael Kline of North Conway<br \/>\nAlan Korb of Belmont<br \/>\nJohn Lambert of Charlestown<br \/>\nKiva Leatherman of Dover<br \/>\nJon Marquis of Pelham<br \/>\nVivian McGuire of Hudson<br \/>\nChristine Miller of Manchester<br \/>\nCarol Moore of Concord<br \/>\nCheryl Moschan of Harrisville<br \/>\nMarc Murai of Bedford<br \/>\nDeanna O&#8217;Shaughnessy of Alton<br \/>\nKatie Paine of Durham<br \/>\nPuneetha Palakurthi of Derry<br \/>\nCatherine Reddington of Newmarket<br \/>\nTed Roche of Hopkinton<br \/>\nClaudio Rodriguez of Nashua<br \/>\nPaula Scales of Merrimack<br \/>\nAlbert Scales of Merrimack<br \/>\nKoo Schadler of Alstead<br \/>\nDavid Schroeder of Bedford<br \/>\nAnne Skidmore of Madison<br \/>\nTim Stone of Portsmouth<br \/>\nPaul Sullivan of Windham<br \/>\nDonald Tydeman of Portsmouth<br \/>\nElizabeth Van Saun of Hopkinton<br \/>\nPatricia Wilczynski of Concord<br \/>\nRobert B. Williams Jr. of Chichester<br \/>\nLisa Woodbury of Conway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small business owners are a contested demographic for the battling presidential campaigns.\u00a0A\u00a0September poll\u00a0from George Washington University suggests the President is leading Governor Romney in support from small business owners, while an August poll by Manta put Romney in the lead with a wide margin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,14],"tags":[571,386,502],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11923,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916\/revisions\/11923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}