A new poll has the major Democratic candidates leading their Republican opponents in New Hampshire.

A Boston Globe poll, conducted by the University of New Hampshire's Survey Center, has former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen (D-Madbury) beating U.S. Sen. John Sununu (R-Waterville Valley) 49 percent to 36 percent. In the 1st Congressional District U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-Rochester) is leading former U.S. Rep. Jeb Bradley (R-Wolfeboro) 44 percent to 39 percent while in the 2nd Congressional District U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes (D-Concord) is leading Jennifer Horn (R-Nashua) 51 percent to 25 percent.

"The economic issues have spelled a lot of trouble for him," Andrew Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, told The Globe. "Once the financial crisis hit, the markets seized up, and people's 401(k)s began to plummet, that's when Republicans got blamed. That was probably the turning point in the Sununu campaign."