Official NH Primary Results Thread

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We need to keep in mind that the vast majority of the results so far are from Hillsborough County, which is the sort of place that is tailor-made for Romney. It is full of people who moved out to the outermost ring of Boston exurbs because 'Taxachusetts'.

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Romney lost Manchester in 2008.

Hillsborough was still his concentration of support in the state.

Also, Vermin Supreme is at 4.1% in Carroll County.

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Huntsman won the town of Ellsworth in Grafton.

FF!

I've been to Ellsworth. It's tiny, but a really nice place. Lots of ponds and cabins and such.

Also, Politico has counties.

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Now the real fight begins.

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So far Romney is only breaking 40% in Rockingham. By a tiny amount. I am most amused.

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I think the new proportional representation rules for the early contests might be making people like Huntsman and Paul overestimate their chances of influencing the convention.

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Santorum is into single digits.

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This is as good a time to mention that I genuinely don't understand how anybody can support or like Romney. Like, at all. I can with effort get into the sorts of mindspaces that support the other Republican candidates, but I cannot comprehend how any human being could look at or listen to Mitt Romney and decide 'there's a man I want running a country'.

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What in the world is up with Belknap County?

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Ladies and gentlemen, I believe the Republicans have renominated Thomas Dewey.

I said more or less the exact same thing precisely one minute after you in another thread.

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I'm really not understanding where this opinion that I'm seeing on the news networks that Romney's speech was good and Huntsman's speech was bad comes from. My mother, who is a very staunch left-liberal who nonironically voted for Nader in 2000--and very well-informed, active in urban politics where that part of my family lives, and definitely not a soundbite voter--watched Huntsman's speech with me and said outright that she'd be proud to vote for him even in a general under different political circumstances. Romney's speech meanwhile reminded one of Dewey '48 and 'Agriculture is important. Rivers are full of fish. Our best days lie ahead'.

Then again, modern Republican primary electorate.

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I've never been to southeast New Hampshire, but these results make it seem like a truly, truly awful place.

Portsmouth is beautiful. I think you'd like it.

Yeah, Portsmouth is actually quite lovely, and the area right around Manchester isn't bad. Nashua, though, and the area along the Massachusetts border in general, is pretty much exactly as argentarius describes it.

Romney at 40% in Belknap; they must like that he has a lakehouse there.

A lot of the time it can seem like every rich person in New England has a lake house in Belknap County. If they don't it's because they have a beach house in Plymouth County or the upper Cape instead.

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Interesting that Merrimack is Huntsman's best county. I would have guessed Sullivan or Cheshire. Unsurprised by Coös.

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Romney is up to 39%, 16% ahead of Paul with 23% left to come in.

I would love to get my +2 Points, but I'm not holding my breath.

Back down to 38.

The most votes still out are in Belknap, Rockingham (both very good Romney counties), Sullivan, and Cheshire (both fairly bad ones).

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Romney is up to 39%, 16% ahead of Paul with 23% left to come in.

I would love to get my +2 Points, but I'm not holding my breath.

Back down to 38.

The most votes still out are in Belknap, Rockingham (both very good Romney counties), Sullivan, and Cheshire (both fairly bad ones).

So, is that pretty much a wash to keep Romney in the high 30s?

More or less, yeah.

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College kids really dropped the ball on this one.

Once you get off the campus Durham's not exactly very college-town-ish, really.

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Laconia and Keene will probably be a wash. Paul and Huntsman love Cheshire County, and Cheshire County loves Paul and Huntsman.

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I'm really not convinced Romney gets much higher than this, honestly. The relevant parts of Rockingham aren't exactly bustling hubs.

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It's rounded up, I think.

Is Gingrich somehow not in fact a Catholic of convenience? If so, I seem to have missed that.

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Tonight was completely unremarkable for Romney, just like most nights in his public life (not Iowa, though; that was a relative triumph).

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Tonight was completely unremarkable for Romney, just like most nights in his public life (not Iowa, though; that was a relative triumph).

Sure, Romney didn't blow anyone away, but it certainly wasn't a failure either.

That's what I meant. Unremarkable.