NH Listens, the PR firm for the RPCs “Granite State Future” program has published the “results” of their listening sessions.

You can read their reports online here: http://carsey.unh.edu/nhlistens/reports or download the PDF file: Granite State Future Summary Report Standalone file.

Many who attended noted that much of the feedback they gave at these sessions was NOT recorded.

Also, they note that over 600 people from 115 different NH towns were involved in these conversations.

That means that there was an average turnout of ~5.25 people per community.  Not what we would call a “public consensus” by any means.

The majority of the people that showed up at the “Listening Sessions” are “stakeholders”. Perhaps a more accurate term would be “beneficiaries”.

A very small number of people from the general public attended these meetings.