How long has it been since a mayor of Portsmouth was elected governor? So long that the last guy who did it was a Republican.

Mayor Charles M. Dale was elected governor in 1944 and served two terms. No other mayor of Portsmouth, one of the state’s largest cities, has ever done it.

Could Mayor Deaglan McEachern break the streak? At the moment, it looks like an uphill climb.

First, there’s New Hampshire’s history of giving governors a second term if they choose to run again. Gov. Craig Benson (R) was the first governor denied a second term by the voters since Republican Gov. John Gilbert Winant lost the GOP primary in 1926.

On Wednesday, the current first-term governor, Kelly Ayotte, announced she raised more than $1.1 million in the most recent filing period, bringing her total this cy

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