NRCC plays their hand early, same hand the DSCC is using against Sununu

The NRCC came out firing at Carol Shea-Porter after last nights primary win by former Congressman Jeb Bradley.  The NRCC appears to be making every effort to tie Shea-Porter to the Democratic Speaker of the House.  In their press release they concentrated on two quotes:

"'I just say thank you for noticing,' said Shea-Porter. ‘I vote with the speaker because she's right.'" (Union Leader, 8/9/07)

"And so far I have voted I think 100 percent of the time with (Democratic leaders) because frankly I think they're 100 percent right." (Concord Monitor, 4/15/07)

A look at the Jeanne Shaheen campaign and the DSCC efforts to attack John Sununu seem to be the same line of attack.  Shaheen is trying to link Sununu to an unpopular president. 

Many a campaign have been run on the effort of tying to link candidates to the party leaders.  But not often does the link have the effect they wish to have as constituents tend to think their representative is different.  It will be interesting to watch how long they stick with these lines of attacks and if the overall theme of change will end up prevailing in the end.