Democratic Senator-elect Jeanne Shaheen speaks to a cheering crowd after defeating Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. John Sununu in Manchester, N.H. Tuesday Nov. 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
Democratic Senator-elect Jeanne Shaheen speaks to a cheering crowd after defeating Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. John Sununu in Manchester, N.H. Tuesday Nov. 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
Democratic Senator-elect Jeanne Shaheen arrives to a cheering crowd after defeating Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. John Sununu in Manchester, N.H. Tuesday Nov. 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
In this Oct. 14, 2002, file photo Democratic Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, left, listens to her Republican rival U.S. Rep. John Sununu, during a televised debate for New Hampshire's U.S. Senate race at Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, N.H. In what is anticipated to be another tight 2008 U.S. Senate race incumbent Sununu is in a rematch against Shaheen in New Hampshire, a state that is famously independent and unpredictable. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)