In New Hampshire, Decision Day
Huckabee Offers Coffee But New Hampshire Independent Isn't Persuaded
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GOP presidential hopeful former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee left, brought coffee and stirs it for campaign worker Bob Buchs right, from Manchester, in Manchester, N.H. Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008. (AP)
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Outside the Brookside Congregational Church in Manchester, Huckabee waded into the crowd to greet voters outside the polling place. He ran into Joe Legay, 70, and asked him what candidate was getting Legay's vote.
"I'm independent," Legay said, ducking the question.
"So I have one more chance, what can I do? Can I pour you coffee?" Huckabee asked, then poured him a cup of coffee from a doughnut shop coffee container. "Where else than in New Hampshire does a candidate come out and personally pour coffee?"
Then he asked Legay again how he would vote.
"I'm independent so I have to be quiet," Legay said - apparently not wanting to hurt Huckabee's feelings, because as Huckabee moved on, Legay told a reporter he was voting for Democrat Barack Obama.
"My suggestion is that if he (Obama) makes it, then (John) Edwards should be his vice president," Legay said.
Elsewhere, at Republican Mitt Romney's second stop of the morning - a polling location at Bedford High School - a line of cars that snaked out of sight was moving too slowly for the candidate. He and U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., got out of their car and trudged the last third of a mile across packed snow, shaking hands with voters and posing for pictures along the way.
"I liked his stance on immigration the most," said Mary Doughtie of Bedford, a Romney supporter. "And I'm against abortion. And I'm against gay marriage. So, his ideals were the most like mine."
At the Beech Street School in Manchester, city highway department employee Daniel Lencki, 58, said he had been going back and forth between Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Edwards, but decided after watching Saturday night's debate to go for Clinton. The deciding factor, he said, was when Edwards boasted about backing a patient bill of rights as an accomplishment in the Senate and Clinton noted that the plan didn't pass.
"I like the other day the way she fought Edwards," he said.
Republican John McCain was mobbed by supporters after arriving at a polling place in Nashua, N.H., in his campaign bus.
The crowd of media and supporters were so big that some voters complained. Finally, one of the poll workers climbed onto McCain's bus and pleaded for him to leave.
"People are so upset because they can't get in here to vote," she said. Seconds later, the bus pulled away.
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President Huckabee....?
of John McCain saying he would like to stay in Iraq
for the next 100 years....McCain is INSANE!!!!!! He is
a bigger war pig than Bush. Please do your research on
these IDIOTS. We have alot at stake..... "
Posted by tylenol6
They just disclosed some early exit poll results on CNN and apparently by a 2 to 1 margin Republicans said they voted based on the personal qualities of the candidate rather than the issues.
Wow, people really don''t like Romney much do they? Sounds like McCain is going to have a strong win . . . but yeah, it''d have been nice if people had thought about Iraq before voting - geez . . .
of John McCain saying he would like to stay in Iraq
for the next 100 years....McCain is INSANE!!!!!! He is
a bigger war pig than Bush. Please do your research on
these IDIOTS. We have alot at stake.....
-This senario is most likely to happen. Legay is pretty wise, and many Americans feel the same way. In all cases it''ll set a precedent: be it Clinton vice-president or not. I''d rather see a competent vice president such as Edwards, than a tired and emotional Hilary fighting for her influential backing group in the White House.