Jeanne Shaheen

U.S. Sen. John Kerry is scheduled to attend a series of rallies in New Hampshire on Saturday for Barack Obama's volunteers in the run up to the election, according to the Obama campaign.

The Democratic senator, who was an early endorser of Obama, will start the day in Exeter at a 12:45 p.m. canvassing kick off for Obama volunteers. Kerry will then head to a veterans phone bank in Dover at 2 p.m. and a campus rally at the University of New Hampshire - Durham at 3:30 p.m.

Kerry will finish the day in Portsmouth at a Unity Rally with New Hampshire Senate candidate Jeanne Shaheen. That event is slated to begin at 5 p.m.

Massachusetts will again be one of four states with an entirely Democratic delegation as part of a national trend that will net them at least seven U.S. Senate seats and 16 House seats nationwide, according to James Pindell, the editor of Politicker.com's Pindell Report, which provides independent analysis of federal and state races.

One of those Democratic U.S. Senate pick-ups is next door in New Hampshire where Democrat Jeanne Shaheen is poised to defeat Republican incumbent John E. Sununu. In addition, Pindell expects John Kerry to easily win re-election and for Barack Obama to win Massachusetts' 12 electoral votes.

The Pindell Report has the Senate at 58-41, and the House at 252-180. The Senate races in Alaska, and House races in Florida, New Mexico and Kansas, remain toss-ups.

U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-Boston) in Nashua, N.H., Saturday: Politicker Photo

NASHUA, N.H. - John Kerry called on fellow U.S. Sen. John Sununu on Saturday to denounce robocalls run in New Hampshire by Republican John McCain's presidential campaign that link Barack Obama to the 1960s radical Bill Ayers.

"Let me say something to John Sununu, those robocalls that are being run here in the state of New Hampshire by John McCain's campaign somehow trying to scare people and link Barack Obama with a past that he had nothing to do with are utterly disgraceful and have no place in American politics," the Boston Democrat said. "I call on John Sununu to break his silence and come out and tell the people of New Hampshire that those calls have no place in the Granite State."

Kerry was speaking to a crowd of about 150 before they set out to canvass on behalf of Obama and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jeanne Shaheen, who is currently locked in a tight race with Sununu. Politicker.com's Pindell Report currently ranks the New Hampshire Senate race as the seventh most competitive in the country.

About 100 members of a Boston plumbers union are heading to New Hampshire Saturday to canvass union members for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, the Boston Globe reports.

And Kevin Cotter, the business manager of the Local 12 Plumbers and Gasfitters union, told the Globe that the now famous "Joe the Plumber" will undoubtedly be featured in their conversations.

"We will definitely be talking about ‘Joe the Plumber,'" Cotter told the Globe, referring to Joe Wurzelbacher, the plumber Republican presidential nominee repeatedly made reference to during his final presidential debate with Obama. "He's impersonating a plumber."

Several Bay State pols are slated to attend a fundraiser for New Hampshire Senate candidate Jeanne Shaheen (D) Monday night in Brookline.

Former N.H. Gov. Jeanne Shaheen (D)An invitation for the event, obtained by PolitickerMA.com on Monday, shows that seven current Massachusetts elected officials and four former officials will be at the event. The fundraiser will be headlined by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.).

Shaheen is currently locked in a tight U.S. Senate race in New Hampshire with U.S. Sen. John Sununu (R). Politicker.com's Pindell Report currently ranks the race as the seventh most competitive Senate contest in the country.

Congresswoman Niki Tsongas isn't facing a challenger in this year's election but that isn't preventing her from keeping busy through Election Day.

U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-Lowell)Tsongas, a Lowell Democrat, told PolitickerMA.com that she is focused on two tasks in these last 25 days before Nov. 4: Spending time in her district and helping Barack Obama win the presidential election.

"I'm doing what I can to help Obama," she said. "Whatever is asked of me, that's what I'll do."

Tsongas has been organizing bus trips to New Hampshire for her supporters on the Saturdays leading up to the election. In previous trips, approximately 25 supporters have made the trip to the Granite State, but Tsongas' office said they expect that number to grow.

Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Belmont): Getty ImageST. PAUL, Minn. - Former Gov. Mitt Romney is scheduled to hold a fundraiser for U.S. Sen. John Sununu at the end of September, PolitickerMA.com has learned.

The fundraiser will be held in Boston on Sept. 22, according to Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom.

Sununu (R-N.H.) is currently locked in a tight re-election race with former Democratic Gov. Jeanne Shaheen. Politicker.com's Pindell Report ranks the race as the sixth most competitive Senate contest in the nation.

Since losing the Republican nomination to U.S. Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), Romney has used his PAC to fundraise for several Republican candidates around the country. He has also attended several fundraisers during his time in St. Paul during the Republican National Convention this week.

Several volunteers from the Bay State made their way north to canvass on behalf of Democratic Senate candidate Jeanne Shaheen (D)Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire last Saturday, according to Shaheen's campaign.

Shaheen, a former governor of the Granite State, is currently locked in a tight race against incumbent Republican Sen. John Sununu. The Pindell Report ranks the race as the most competitive in the country.

In a call for out of state volunteers, Shaheen's web site states that her Manchester field office hosted a "crew of hardy out-of-staters" last Saturday.

The volunteers knocked on doors throughout the city.

U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-Lowell) mobilized two handfuls of her supporters over the weekend to head up to New Hampshire and canvass on behalf of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) presidential campaign.U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-Lowell)

In an e-mail that went out last Wednesday, Tsongas called on volunteers to head north to help Obama, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jeanne Shaheen, and U.S. Reps. Carol Shea-Porter (D) and Paul Hodes (D) campaign.

The campaigning, Tsongas told PolitickerMA.com, is part of an increased effort to help Democrats win in New Hampshire, which most political analysts consider highly competitive this year.

"We have been working with the Obama campaign," she said. "We need a Democrat in the White House but we are also supporting other Democrats in New Hampshire."

In spite of giving large sums of money to other campaigns U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Worcester) reported $303,872.98 cash on hand for the second quarter, according to the Federal Election Commission.Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Worcester)

McGovern, who represents the Bay State's 3rd Congressional District, raked in $139,203.28 in total contributions for the quarter and has collected $863,391.82 in total contributions for this election cycle.

Midway through 2006, McGovern had just $100,438.58 cash on hand.