NASHUA, H.H. — The turnout in New Hampshire is widely reported to be through the roof, with an on-the-record quote out of the Secretary of State’s office attesting to that fact.
I got a taste of it in Ward 5 in Concord at the Green Street Community Center. There was nearly 50 percent turnout with two […]

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CONCORD, N.H. — Romney is surging the past 36 hours, according to some polls, and The Atlantic’s Mark Ambinder. He reports 800 turning out in Bedford, after a long day of events.
The polls have Romney and McCain within the margin of error. I had a soda with a reporter from a conservative publication who told […]

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CONCORD — A quick note on New Hampshire voters. Jo and Elliot Mednick of the Salem area told me they get 10 calls a day from campaigns and/or pollsters. Usually they don’t answer, but they said it’s pretty cool when “Gallup” is what reads on the caller ID, so they sometimes pick up. They […]

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CONCORD, N.H. — I just picked up a flier for an event for Sen. John McCain here Saturday.
Special guest: Wilford Brimley.
For a guy battling the idea that he’s too old to be president, oatmeal salesman Brimley, who’s looked 75 years old for the past 25 years, is a curious choice as your surrogate.

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CONCORD, N.H. — Driving up from my parents’ house in southern New England, the snow banks grew larger, the fields and the trees weighed down with white. As I drove the country roads through central Massachusetts and into New Hampshire, I began to see how ridiculous this whole New Hampshire primary thing must seem to […]

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