Grant Bosse said that he thought he had been able to spread his conservative message beyond the traditional Republican base in this year's Republican primary.

The Hillsboro Republican finished fourth in a five-way race in the 2nd Congressional District that saw Jennifer Horn (R-Nashua) capture the nomination.

"I was surprised, I had thought that I had done more to communicate outside that core Republican vote," Bosse told PolitickerNH.com. "We'd done between Channel 9, the WMUR debate that I thought we did well, I did some direct mail I thought I had broken out of that activist base and looking at where the numbers came in I just didn't perform that well outside my home area. It's obvious that I didn't build any sort of name recognition outside those votes that go to the Grafton County Republican meetings."

Bosse said he would have spent more time focused on fundraising.

"I probably would have concentrated the first months less on grassroots which is unfortunate. I wouldn't have spent every day on the road I would have spent several days a week simply raising money," he said. "I had tried to do a very low-cost bare bones campaign and it just didn't quite come together."

When asked how Horn was able to defeat Clegg, Bosse said, "It was obvious that her theme fit her as a first time candidate and she was able to drive it home a lot more effectively than Bob's which was essentially introducing himself and talking about his own personal experience."

Bosse also said that he is likely to run for office again in the future.

"I'll probably run for something again," he said. "I really enjoyed it and I still feel as passionate about the issues as I did yesterday."