Open Thread: Primary Day 2010

Turnout appears to be astonishingly low... (0.00 / 0)

Maybe I am getting bad information but as of 11 AM turnout could end up significantly below the predictions for both parties.

2012 starts today.

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by: Ray Buckley @ Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 10:10:42 AM CDT

Orford Turnout (0.00 / 0)

Turnout is low in Orford so far.  I need to return to my Kuster and Monahan signs shortly.

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by: ruthcserr @ Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 10:26:38 AM CDT

the woman I'm house sitting for (0.00 / 0)

said there were a fair number of people at the polls in Conway. Lots of sign wavers, too.

She voted GOP, just to mess with 'em.  

sanctimonious purist/professional lefty

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by: susanthe @ Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 10:44:54 AM CDT

This will fire up the right wing paranoia (0.00 / 0)

Left-leaning Unenrolleds pull GOP ballot to skew race.

If it's close enough for a recount, the U voters will be villified. Why do I think that? Because the whack job GOPers villify OTHER Republicans.


Whack-a-mole, anyone?

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 10:51:41 AM CDT

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GOP outrage (0.00 / 0)

is low on my list of concerns.

There's a guy in Glen who is a registered Democrat that has written a noxious ltte every week for 15 years about the evils of his own party.

If  Democrats spent less time worrying about what Republicans think, we might actually get somewhere. The bipartisanship has not only sailed, it sank.  

sanctimonious purist/professional lefty

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by: susanthe @ Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 11:03:29 AM CDT

Jim Bender (4.00 / 1)

I'm from Hollis and went and voted this morning in the primary (go Annie!) and Jim Bender was actually outside canvassing for support here instead of a bigger city like Manchester, Nashua, or Concord. Yes, Bender is from Hollis but it gave me the impression that not only does he expect to lose the state, he's worried about losing in his hometown. Glad that he'll be gone from the race, his signs were blanketing the sides of the roads in town.

Glad that we can finally move on and focus on the general election starting tomorrow.

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by: francism @ Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 11:10:14 AM CDT

Welcome (4.00 / 2)

#396

Please, stick around and comment. Lurking is less fun. :v)

Whack-a-mole, anyone?

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 11:20:33 AM CDT

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Ward 8 Manchester (4.00 / 2)

I was one of two people voting at Ward 8, Manchester, at 7:30 a.m. (

That is an amazingly slow morning.  I didn't see any candidates, even state rep canddiates. There were about 8 signholders, two of them were Democrats.

The energized excited Republican electorate must have been sleeping in today.



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 11:25:13 AM CDT

Meh, They are not late. (4.00 / 1)

They work "Bankers Hours!"

Whack-a-mole, anyone?

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 11:31:06 AM CDT

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Just a vent... (4.00 / 1)

I had to wander over here to vent a bit.  On every  web page I've looked at today, there's been a Kelly Ayotte banner ad.  

Enough already, Google ads!  I am not Kelly's target audience! Please go back to pushing bad mortgages and weight loss miracle drugs!

That is all.  :)

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by: Karen @ Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 11:56:56 AM CDT

More Signs Than Votes? (0.00 / 0)

In the 1984 presidential primary, Sen Alan Cranston actually had more signs than votes.

Will Binnie match that??

No'm Sayn?

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by: BurtCohen @ Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 12:34:37 PM CDT

Craig Benson (0.00 / 0)

may have come close. We in the north have not forgotten (nor forgiven) the Benson sign that went up on Cathedral Ledge, and required a couple of rock climbers to get it down. We were blanketed with Benson signs up here in the forgotten north.  

sanctimonious purist/professional lefty

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by: susanthe @ Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 12:47:05 PM CDT

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where is this uber enthusiastic Republican base (4.00 / 2)

that the pundits and press are talking about?

2012 starts today.

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by: Ray Buckley @ Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 12:35:27 PM CDT

my guess is they're (0.00 / 0)

listening to hate radio, waiting to be told what to do.

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by: Timmy J @ Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 13:32:21 PM CDT

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Eric Anderson (4.00 / 1)

Bow's long serving and thankfully retiring lone Republican Rep has kept records since God knows when. We are seeing about double the turnout in Bow from the last State primary two years ago. There were no real races then to speak of.

Either they are turning out to vote for Swett, not very likely since they never do to well in Bow, or they are turning out for the Senate...roughly equal #  for Ayotte as Ovide...

Bruce Berke is predicting 3-4 point Kelly win.

Who knows what's what in a low turnout primary?

Nice to see professional election monitor Mr. Twomey breeze through.

Katrina and Dick came to vote, a viz materialized 10 minutes before, Amy Covino from WMUR showed up and had to wait for them, which she did patiently so she could watch them go in and vote.

Kathy Kelley for State Senate spending most of the day in Bow...a good sign she really is working and gets the district. After Ward 2 in manch we have the highest turnout in District 16.

One Jack Kimball person, one Adams person, a few Bass, a few more Ayotte, and a steady Ovide force.

The Swett people keep telling me I am going to have more fun than they will tonight. Well having been on this bus since February '09 I am ready to have a short celebration then its onward to November, and it gets steeper from here.

for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops

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by: JonnyBBad @ Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 14:00:52 PM CDT

The NH-02 Dem Primary (4.00 / 1)

Will have an upside. More on that after we know who the nom is.

P.S. I'm from the Academy of the Silver Lining.

Whack-a-mole, anyone?

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 14:19:24 PM CDT

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yes Annie will beat Bass n/t (0.00 / 0)

for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops

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by: JonnyBBad @ Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 17:16:11 PM CDT

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the turnout (4.00 / 1)

in Conway did appear low. Plenty of angry Republicans wagging signs in front of the polls.

I availed myself of same day registration for the first time in my voting life. The woman handling same day registration was not especially helpful, and was somewhat horrified, to be registering a homeless person. She kept trying to get someone else to come help her, so she could avoid having to deal with me. The town clerk (who knows me) came over and got her settled down, but she was quite unhappy with the whole situation, especially because I was more familiar with NH voting law than she was.

I now understand, on a gut level, why many homeless people don't vote. It's hard enough when you're an obnoxious person who is willing to cause a scene (which luckily was not required). I can imagine how easily someone else might be cowed, and choose to just walk away.  

sanctimonious purist/professional lefty

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by: susanthe @ Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 16:14:56 PM CDT

Bow very crowded late...sunny and sweet weather n/t (0.00 / 0)

for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops

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by: JonnyBBad @ Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 17:16:41 PM CDT

Dante thinks Guinta can pull it off: (0.00 / 0)

A quick thought (call it a hunch) on the First District GOP primary: If Frank Guinta wins tonight (and that's the thinking here, for what it's worth), it will depend on how he does in places like Gilford as much as it does in, say, Manchester's Second Ward.  

...I suspect it's places like Auburn and Chester, Wolfeboro and Ossipee, that will decide the winner.

Guinta was severely outgunned on the air by Mahoney.  Does he have the ground game to nullify the Seacoast Republican's advantage?  We'll find out in places like Gilford.

http://graniteprof.typepad.com/graniteprof/2010/09/hows-guinta-doing-in-gilford-.html

This is the CD1 version of the "North of Nashua" approach, isn't it?

birch, finch, beech

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by: Dean Barker @ Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 18:01:59 PM CDT

Lynch vs. Stephen (0.00 / 0)

The governor's race on November 2 will be, to no one's surprise (except maybe Jack Kimball's), a battle of the Johns: Lynch vs. Stephen.  

Something which should worry the Democratic Party's leadership is that Stephen's primary landslide was (judging by the early numbers) almost as spectacular as Lynch's.  This result is notwithstanding the fact that Stephen (until now) has (to best of my knowledge) never won an election.  And it is also notwithstanding the fact that Stephen faced much stronger opposition than Lynch.

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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Tue Sep 14, 2010 at 20:15:50 PM CDT