Let the voting begin: The New Hampshire primary kicks off; Update: Dixville Notch goes for Obama, McCain; Update Hart’s Location supports Obama, McCain; Update: Record turnout reported; out of ballots
Update 7:50pm Eastern 1/8. McCain grabs an early lead. Polls close at 8pm Eastern.
Update 6:14pm Eastern 1/8. Obama is scooping up with independents.
New Hampshire is turning into “Blue Hampshire.”
Update 5:05pm Eastern 1/8. Town-by-town results will be here.
Update 1:16pm Eastern 1/8. NH Dems are running out of ballots. Good news for Obama, bad news for McCain, muses Bob Owens.
Update 11:33am Eastern 1/8. Looking for exit polls? Read this.
Update 10:45am Eastern 1/8. The Union-Leader reports large turnout this morning: “Louis Gosselin, Ward 6 moderator, said election officials expected about 150 people to vote each hour at St. Pius X on Candia Road. Instead, about 300 people each hour were casting ballots. By 8 a.m., 602 people had voted. About 70 new voters were registered. ‘I believe if it continues this way we definitely will set a record,’ said Gosselin.”
Update 8:02am Eastern 1/8. The latest.
Update 12:40am Eastern. Here are the results from Hart’s location.
GOP
Romney – 1
Paul – 14
Huckabee – 5
McCain – 6
Dem
Edwards -1
Clinton – 3
Obama – 9
In Dixville, the party breakdown was: three registered Republicans, one Democrat and 12 undeclareds. In Hart’s Location, there were eight Democrats, eight Republicans and 13 undeclareds.
Update 12:11am Eastern. Here ya go…for what it’s worth…McCain and Obama win Dixville Notch.
Dixville Notch votes:
GOP
Giuliani – 1
Romney – 2
McCain – 4
Dem
Richardson – 1
Edwards – 2
Obama – 7
Hillary got iced out. Get her a Kleenex, stat!
Meanwhile, Huck hangs with David Letterman. He does seem to enjoy rubbing elbows with celebrities.
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Voting in the NH primary begins when the clock strikes 12. The famous town of Dixville Notch kicks things off at midnight, along with the tiny hamlet of Hart’s Location. Jim Geraghty calls Dixville Notch “quaint, but not predictive.” The Manchester Union Leader is keeping tabs on its primary blog.
Stay tuned for results.
12:02am Eastern. 17 voters in Dixville Notch have cast their ballots.
Some poll numbers from the U-L while we wait…
The polls
* Are the Republican polls correct? Will John McCain win the primary and set himself up as the national front-runner? He was on the ropes last summer, when he fired top staffers as his campaign ran out of money. But he then reverted to his successful 2000 strategy, focused on New Hampshire and held at least 100 town meetings.
Last night’s CNN/WMUR tracking poll showed McCain with a 31 to 26 percent lead over Mitt Romney, with Mike Huckabee at 13 percent and Giuliani and Ron Paul now tied at 10 percent each. But Rasmussen had McCain with only a 1 percentage point lead over Romney, 32 to 31 percent.
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#86 Victor:
I don’t disagree with at all.
Mojoe is absolutely right.
Massachusetts people are fleeing Mass for NH; trouble is, they appear to be trying to ruin NH by turning it into something similar to what they were running away from in the first place.
And for you name-callers out there; for you frustrated folks who can muster no better argument than name-calling – because you have no argument:
Regarding the threat posed by Islam to civilization that bin-Laden and Zawahiri have proclaimed in writing:
Are you saying we should dismiss and ignore bin-Laden, Zawahiri, and their crazy supporters?
Are you saying the death sentence for apostates from Islam is a joke?
Are you saying taqiyya is a figment of the imagination?
Try real hard and see if you can answer those questions…not with another question; not by changing the subject; and not by hurling yet another name at someone.
Hussein Osama love fest on tv is continuous. Oh gee i said osama – boo hoo hoo!
This whole pro democrat circus is being run by the MSM. You would think there is only one party in this country.
The American people are being brainwashed by the left wing MSM, which is giving free advertising to the dems 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They want a democrat president. The propoganda is endless.
For people to even consider electing to the presidency a person who wants to sit down and talk with the likes of Imamaniac shows how successful the MSM’s campaign is.
denmother, best comment on this site in a long time. sour grapes by 30. Pats finish this thing off and go 19-0 and they get the title of best team of all time.
granite, as one of the “name callers” to whom you are referring, I’ll bite. The obvious answer to all of your questions is no. Now let me ask you a question: is it rational to imply that Sen. Obama is a closet radical Muslim planted in the US as a mole by the jihadists in order to be elected President so he can impose sharia law and bring the US into the global caliphate?
Why is everyone so consumed with Iowa and New Hampshire. If you put them both together, you wouldn’t have a decent size city. The media is making way too much of those two primaries. Nothing of any significance will come out until super Tuesday. This is all media hype to sell commercials.
Thanks to the MassaMoonbats moving north.
Mitt Romney hanging out with NH’s PRO AMNESTY Senator, Judd Gregg.
I’ll NEVER vote for Mitt.
‘morning, folks.
‘If bin-Laden & Zawahiri, or other assorted crazies, might believe that someone who at some past time prayed in a mosque (even once), and now states that he is a Christian, is an apostate; then that person is a marked man, for the rest of his life, as long as the crazies are around.
Or, if the person in question is disssembling; then, like I said, we are being conned BIG time.
What part of
“B.Hussein Obambi’s close relationship with the main Muslim tribe back in Kenya who has parlayed deals with IslamoFascist powers to implement sharia law across Kenya.”
should be laughed at or dismissed?”‘
Nice try at inserting the straw man.
I don’t see any implication.
I see IF; Or, IF; and WHAT PART OF….
Very legitimate questions given the history of, and current thinking in, Islam.
The response to your ueber-contentious statement comes down to a matter of faith:
You obviously believe that there is nothing to worry about with the Obama siutation as has been discussed; and that you trust…in other words, have faith…that everything will be OK if he should be elected.
I do NOT trust the situation under discussion; I do not believe that everything will be OK, nor that there is nothing to worry about.
‘Course, it’s virtually, if not completely, impossible, to scientifically, evidentiarily prove a negative; thus, only time will tell, and give the answer.
Dakine, it’s nice to see the resident comment assessor is back and picking up right where he left off. Seriously though, you weren’t missed.
You Pats fan can have 19-0 season but you won’t be able to get around the FACT that no other team in the history of football ever had to cheat to achieve a 19-0 season. So, you can add this to the collection: *Pats, only team to ever cheat to win…google it, you’ll see. If they are soooo god why was this necessary? Things that make you go hmmmmm.
I’ve had fun. Til’ next time.
30, top ‘o the morning to you as well. Here’s my assessment of your last comment: SOUR GRAPES!
granite, cutting through the squishy mush of your last comment, you have pretty much confirmed that you are way out in left field in tin foil hat land on this issue and have no credibility whatsoever. Your thinking is very dangerous and hopefully constrained to a handful of extreme right wing moonbats.