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NH Turnout Shatters Records

Posted Jan 8, 08 7:33 PM CST in Politics 

(Newser) – Unseasonably fair weather and a crowded, competitive field of both Republicans and Democrats drew a record number of voters to the polls in New Hampshire yesterday, the AP reports. With 88% of ballots counted, some 453,000 people had voted, besting the previous record of 396,385 votes cast in 2000. This year's total was projected to top half a million.

Heavy Democratic turnout reversed the ratio of the 2000 primary, with 276,000 Dem compared to 229,000 GOP voters, the Concord Monitor reports. Crowded fields were also a draw: "There’s really no one in the state who can say they have no one to vote for," New Hampshire's secretary of state told the Union Leader.
Sources:: Associated Press, Concord Monitor, Union Leader (NH)

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Townspeople cast their ballot while voting in the New Hampshire Primary in Brookline, N.H., Tuesday Jan. 8, 2008.(AP Photo/Charles Krupa)   (Associated Press)
Obama volunteers hold signs outside a polling station while greeting voters in the New Hampshire Primary in Brookline, N.H., Tuesday Jan. 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)   (Associated Press)
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., talks to the media as he buys doughnuts for campaign workers at a Dunkin' Donuts in Manchester, N.H., as New Hampshire voters turn out in large...   (Associated Press)
Democratic Presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. greets supporters at the Broken Ground School in Concord, N.H., Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008, as she visited the polling place on New Hampshire's...   (Associated Press)
A voter fills in his ballot on the basketball court at Capt. Samuel Douglass Academy during the New Hampshire Primary in Brookline, N.H., Tuesday Jan. 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)   (Associated Press)
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