Voting begins in New Hampshire primary

Luke Skywalker · Feb 9, 2016

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[h=4]Voting underway in New Hampshire; Kasich, Sanders win in Dixville Notch[/h]MANCHESTER, N.H. —*New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary began overnight, with residents in Dixville Notch casting their traditional first ballots just after*midnight.

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Feb 8 -- Former John McCain and George W. Bush adviser Juleanna Glover and Marco Rubio supporter Susan Duprey discuss Donald Trump and the state of the Republican and Democratic races in New Hampshire on "With All Due Respect." Bloomberg

Supporters of many of the presidential candidates hold signs outside the polling place at the Webster School on Feb. 9, 2016 in Manchester, N.H.(Photo: Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images)

MANCHESTER, N.H. —*New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary began well before sunrise Tuesday,*with residents in Dixville Notch casting their traditional first ballots just after*midnight. The results — all nine votes*— surely brought*smiles to the faces of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
Sanders swept Hillary Clinton, 4-0, while Kasich topped Donald Trump, 3 votes to 2.
Kasich, one of several candidates looking for at least a second place finish, said he was "calm" as he approached Election Day.
"I can't explain it other than we've done everything we need to do here and it's in the hands of the voters," he told MSNBC's Morning Joe.
In nearby Millsfield, Ted Cruz won the Republican vote over Trump, 9-3. Several other candidates got one vote apiece. Clinton beat Sanders, 2 votes to 1.
In Hart’s Location, population 43, Kasich bested*Trump again, 5 votes to 4, with Chris Christie gathering 2 votes. Jeb Bush, Ben Carson*and Marco Rubio got one vote each. Sanders edged Clinton, 12 votes to 7. Mark Stewart Greenstein, who calls himself a “liberty-leaning Democrat,” got 2 votes, the*Union Leader*reported.

Registered voters wait to cast their ballots vote in the small village of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, USA, early 09 February 2016, moments after midnight during the first election day ballots in the presidential primary. EPA/HERB SWANSON*(Photo: HERB SWANSON, EPA)

Donald Trump on Tuesday was already launching an Election Day*tweet storm, most of it directed at his fiercest Republican critic, Jeb Bush.
Heading into Tuesday's primary,*Trump's public language continued to astound:*the candidate who has said he would bomb the (bleep) out of the Islamic State echoed a vulgarity Monday night toward Ted Cruz (a synonym for wimp).*During a rally,*as Trump discussed Cruz's reluctance to endorse waterboarding, a woman in the crowed shouted "he's a p----!"
Trump then scolded the woman — playfully.
"You’re not allowed to say, and I never expect to hear that from you again,” he said. “She said he’s a p-----.”
The crowd laughed and cheered.
Asked about the incident Tuesday*on MSNBC, Trump said: “It was a great moment, I got a standing ovation, the place went wild.*Somebody said 'mixed cheers.' Let me tell you: the place went wild."
The Cruz campaign suggested Trump's language might not sit well with voters in future primary states.
"I'm trying to understand which voter group in South Carolina he's trying to appeal to," said Cruz communications director Rick Tyler.
Trump expressed confidence, provided his people actually get out.
"The people have to go out and vote, you know?" Trump said on*Morning Joe. "You see rallies like that, where you have 4,000 or 5,000 people in a blizzard, and then you still have to tell them.*That's why I told them last night, 'No matter how you're feeling, you have to go out and vote.'"
Clinton was up early Tuesday*— around 6:45 a.m., she and daughter Chelsea Clinton greeted volunteers at a polling station at Parker Varney School. Clinton and Chelsea shook hands, posed for voters and thanked volunteers who she said*worked "day and night for me."

A woman exits a voting booth to cast a ballot in the New Hampshire primary, at a polling station in Laconia, New Hampshire, USA, 09 February 2016. New Hampshire holds the first primary in the United States Presidential Election cycle. EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS*(Photo: MICHAEL REYNOLDS, EPA)

NBC crashed the event, stuck a microphone*in Clinton's face and got a few questions in. "As I've said over the past couple days, we're going to keep working literally until the last vote is cast and counted and we're going to go from there," she said.
As for*predictions for Tuesday night, Clinton seemed to be playing to those notorious New Hampshire voters who decide at the last minute: "You know, I just love the way New Hampshire does this. I like the way the people of New Hampshire take it so seriously. They focus in on the issues and they keep coming back."

Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) poses for a picture with Frank Fiorina, husband of republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, outside of a polling station at Gilbert H. Hood Middle School on February 9, 2016 in Derry, New Hampshire. New Hampshire voters are heading to the polls in the nation's first primaries. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)*(Photo: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images)

Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) greets Frank Fiorina, husband of republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, outside of a polling station at Gilbert H. Hood Middle School on Tuesday in Derry, New Hampshire. New Hampshire voters are heading to the polls in the nation's first primaries. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)*(Photo: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images)

Her second stop was at a polling station at Fairgrounds*Middle School in Nashua, where she appeared to surprise a Trump supporter by shaking her hand. Clinton paused at a group of young women and offered to take a selfie with them.
"I've got so many different styles of selfies," she told them. "I feel*like I could like write a guide."
As Clinton and her daughter made a third stop at a polling station, in Derry,*she ran into Carly Fiorina’s husband, Frank.
"Do you remember me?" he asked.
"I sure do!" Clinton said. "Good for you for being out here." They shook hands and made small talk between dueling Carly and Hillary*signs.
She asked how he was coping with the frigid weather. "I didn't wear the right shoes, but other than that I'm doing fine," he said.
"It is such an amazing, wonderful part of democracy," Clinton said.
"It is, look at these folks all out here, it's amazing," he said.
They posed for a photo before Clinton made her way back to her motorcade.
Fiorina has made Clinton a bullseye as she sought to distinguish herself in a crowded field of Republican male candidates. It has only been several days since her latest barb, when Fiorina said she actually likes spending time with her husband. Fiorina followed up by saying that Clinton would do “anything to gain and hold onto power … if my husband did what Bill Clinton did, I would have left him a long time ago.”
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