[CASchack]

I just got back from Elm Street (the main drag in downtown Manchester NH). Many out-of-staters here. The Occupy nitwits with their tents are across the street from the CBS news booth and the assemblage of news cameras. Groups of Paulbots also are in front of the Occupy site, blasting some hippy-dippy Ron Paul music while holding Paul for President signs.

Newt’s NH headquarters is only about a quarter of a mile north of these nitwits, in a large-window storefront. It’s no wonder to me that the riff-raff walked up to disrupt his event.

Willard’s HQ is located a half mile south of the Occupy site, but in a far less open storefront than Newt’s.

I wish this state would close these primaries and keep non-Republicans from voting. Of course, we can’t even get picture IDs to prevent non-citizens from voting.

[kristinn]

Thanks for the on scene report. The left (including the Paulistinians) is getting away with this because the Tea Party has given up on street activism already.

[manc]

I wish the GOP would only allow republicans to run on our primaries not libertarians too.

[raccoonradio]

Margery Eagan, Boston Herald:

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Lest you think they’d let this national opportunity pass, members of Occupy Wall Street have organized Occupy the New Hampshire Primary in a small park across from the Radisson Hotel in Manchester. That’s media ground zero, where former CBS anchor Dan Rather had breakfast yesterday and where NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and dozens of TV stations and national radio shows stage their broadcasts.

The outdoor press centers of both CBS and The Associated Press have clear views of Occupy’s encampment, their “Hungry? Eat a Banker” signs and their occasional performances, with flute and African drums, of “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” And they’ve gotten themselves lots of attention.

Today some occupiers and out-of-work veterans plan to hand out “Ballots on America’s Future” at polling places across New Hampshire. They’ll ask voters: would they like a Cabinet level Department of Peace, a decrease in military spending and a guaranteed living wage? Occupier Jeffery Allen, in charge of the ballots here, said an anonymous donor will pay $80 to every unemployed veteran for polling place work.

Dozens of occupiers showed up Sunday night for a Mitt Romney campaign rally at an Exeter high school with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, chanting “Mitt kills jobs!” and “Christie kills jobs!” Romney politely shrugged it off but combustible Christie replied to the woman heckling him, “Something might go down tonight, sweetheart, but it won’t be jobs.”

Outside the GOP debate Saturday night, about 300 occupiers held a “Funeral for the American Dream” rally complete with a mock coffin and a Dixieland band, said Tim Cunningham, a Roger Williams University student home in New Hampshire for Christmas break. The occupiers’ small site in Manchester — about a dozen tents — is temporary, from Friday to tonight. They have an 11 p.m. curfew so no one’s there overnight. And reaction has been mixed.

“Occasionally a person will drive by and say, ‘get a job,’ ” said occupier Marty Jackson of Nashua, who’s actually retired from a 30-year computer career.