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MANCHESTER, N.H. — Video footage provided exclusively to The Daily Caller shows election workers in New Hampshire giving out ballots in the names of dead voters at multiple voting precincts during the state’s primary election on Tuesday. The bombshell video is the work of conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe and his organization, Project Veritas. Voters in the Granite State are not required to present identification to vote. O’Keefe’s investigators were able to obtain ballots under the names of dead voters at polling locations Tuesday by simply asking for them, he said. “Live free or die,” an election worker told one of...

VIDEO: NH poll workers shown handing out ballots in dead peoples’ names By Alex Pappas - The Daily Caller 1:15 PM 01/11/2012 MANCHESTER, N.H. — Video footage provided exclusively to The Daily Caller shows election workers in New Hampshire giving out ballots in the names of dead voters at multiple voting precincts during the state’s primary election on Tuesday. The bombshell video is the work of conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe and his organization, Project Veritas. Voters in the Granite State are not required to present identification to vote. O’Keefe’s investigators were able to obtain ballots under the names of dead...

These 2 "debates" were NOT aimed @ the "voters" in Mass. West(otherwise know as "New Hampshire"), they were aimed @ the voters in South Carolina and Florida.

(Reuters) - The knives will come out at back-to-back debates this weekend as Republican presidential hopefuls frantically jockey for position days before New Hampshire's key primary. Debates are once again the main show in the 2012 race after candidates spent two weeks on the road campaigning in coffee shops and pizza places through Iowa and now, New Hampshire.The six contenders will go at it twice within 12 hours, first on Saturday night and then again on Sunday morning. It is their last, best chance to sway large numbers of voters with New Hampshire set to vote on Tuesday.

MANCHESTER N.H. — On the day Mitt Romney rolled out the endorsement of Senator John McCain of Arizona, a “super PAC” backing Newt Gingrich dug out an old gem and put in on the Web. The PAC, Winning Our Future, posted a commercial slamming Mr. Romney by using past footage of him offering conflicting positions on issues like abortion, gun control and what it means to be a Republican. “I will preserve and protect a woman’s right to choose and am devoted and dedicated to honoring my word in that regard,” he says. But moments later, in another clip, he...

The leaders of the New Hampshire Republican Party have spoken, and they have given Mitt Romney the early presidential lead in the Granite State. In the first-of-its-kind straw poll of members of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee, Romney drew 35% of the total vote. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) came in second with 11%. The straw poll was conducted in Derry, NH and was sponsored by ABC News and WMUR-TV. ABC News political director Amy Walter tweeted the results of the poll this afternoon: Mitt Romney 35.14% Ron Paul 10.51% Tim Pawlenty 7.61% Sarah Palin 6.88% Michele Bachmann 5.07%

I like Dick Morris though I can’t say I always agree with him, and Monday was one of those times.  Morris wrote: The short list of contenders for the nomination will not be chosen in the early primaries. Iowa and New Hampshire will not impose their will on America. America will impose its will on Iowa and New Hampshire. The quarter finals will not be waged in the cornfields of Iowa or the former mill towns of New Hampshire. They will be held in the living rooms of America among the Fox News audience! Morris cites Fox News’ growing audience,...

The New Hampshire Primary has shot its bolt. I’m glad that circus has folded its tents and gotten the heck out of Dodge. I don’t even live in New Hampshire. I can only image how happy those folks will feel once the confetti and discarded fast food boxes are swept up and hauled to the dump. After a scene like a hotly contested Presidential Primary, normalcy must shine as a blessing. The results confounded expert opinion. That isn’t particularly difficult to accomplish. They don’t call it intelligent opinion, just expert opinion. The experts missed the Democratic Race by 10-15%. They...

...Mr. Paul, an obstetrician from Lake Jackson, Texas, could pull off a stunner on Jan. 8 and place third in New Hampshire's Republican primary. If he does, he would embarrass Rudy Giuliani and steal media limelight from John McCain and Mitt Romney, who are battling for first place.

In many places around the country, Mitt Romney is facing a challenge from Mike Huckabee. However, in New Hampshire, Huck-a-mania never took hold. But, following endorsements from the Manchester Union Leader, the Boston Globe, and Senator Joe Lieberman, John McCain is now challenging Romney in the state he won eight years ago. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the state shows Romney with 31% support, McCain at 27% and no one else close. Rudy Giuliani attracts 13% and Huckabee barely reaches double digits at 11%. This is the first time any candidate has been within single digits of Romney...

Barack Obama has come from behind to turn the Democratic presidential race in New Hampshire into a toss-up, according to a new Monitor opinion poll. The results - which show Obama with a one-point edge over Hillary Clinton - mirror other polls released this week, indicating that Clinton's once-imposing lead has evaporated in the run-up to New Hampshire's Jan. 8 primary. The poll suggests that the Democratic race could hinge on the turnout of undeclared voters, who aren't registered with either political party. Much of Obama's backing comes from undeclared voters, while registered Democrats make up the bulk of Clinton's...

Two state polls have come out today (Marist Poll, Boston Globe Poll) each predicting Ron Paul's support to be at 7%. These polls represent the first one's to gauge his support after running television and radio advertisements in the state. Seems like it might be working folks. His polling average is currently 2.2.% above last month's average. And the amazing thing about this is that they each have middle dates on or before the November 5th money bomb -- a day that Ron Paul's supporters donated more than 4 million dollars to his campaign. The positive publicity that generated is...

If I'm ever in an election--for sewage board or litter enforcement commissar--I want the election to be exactly like the New Hampshire primary. Because there were no losers! Everybody won! It was a mathematical miracle! All participants went home with a trophy! Just like in T-ball! Five major candidates participated in this race. If you want to get all technical and picky about it, only one got more votes than anybody else. Yet on Tuesday night, as I watched TV, none of the candidates seemed to believe that they had been trounced. In fact, none even seemed to believe they...

How Kerry won, and the national impact PRINCETON, NJ -- On Tuesday, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry did what almost everyone expected, and what the CNN/USA Today/Gallup pre-election poll had estimated would be the case: he won the New Hampshire primary by a substantial margin over former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, capping a rise to victory in the Granite State that was fueled by his surprising victory in Iowa a week earlier. The close race for third among retired Gen. Wesley Clark, and Sens. John Edwards (N.C.) and Joe Lieberman (Ct.), also transpired as predicted by pre-election polls. The final figures...

There is no question that Kerry's solid win last night thoroughly establishes him as the front runner. Unlike Iowa, the polls were pretty dead on with the final results. Our final RCP poll average was Kerry 35.6%, Dean 24.2%, Edwards 12.4%, Clark 10.6% and Lieberman 7.4% with 7.2% undecided. If you allocate the undecideds proportional to their final poll averages Kerry ends up at 38.2%, Dean 25.9%, Edwards 13.3%, Clark 11.4% and Lieberman 7.9%. Except for a Clark/Edward's flip-flop, that is more or less exactly how it turned out. (Final Results: Kerry 38.5%, Dean 26.3%, Clark 12.4%, Edwards 12.1%, Lieberman...

Candidate PopularVote Delegate Votes SoftPledged SoftUnpledged SoftTotal Hard Total Bush, George W. 17,100   88.9% 29 100.0% 3 100.0% 32 100.0% 29  90.6% (write-in/others) 791    4.1%         Bosa, Richard P. 261    1.4%         Buchanan, John 254    1.3%         Rigazio, John Donald 212    1.1%         Haines, Robert Edward 185    1.0%         Callis, Michael 104    0.5%         Ashby, Blake 79    0.4%         Howard, Millie 73    0.4%         Wyatt, "Bill" 44    0.2%         Laughlin, "Tom" 35    0.2%         Taylor, Jim 35    0.2%         O'Connor, Cornelius E....

<p>MANCHESTER, N.H. -- The New Hampshire presidential primary is over. Let the courting of New Hampshire's presidential voters begin.</p> <p>In the past, such a sentiment would have been little more than lip service. Most years, on this morning the day after the primary, the candidates and the media have departed with little expectation of returning to this little state with only four electoral votes. There are much bigger prizes nearly everywhere else in the country.</p>

<p>MANCHESTER, N.H. — John Kerry won the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary last night, adding to his victory last week in Iowa, and trouncing former front-runner Howard Dean, who came in second.</p> <p>"I love New Hampshire," Mr. Kerry said in declaring victory about 9:35 p.m. "I love Iowa, too. And I hope with your help to have the blessings and the opportunity to love a lot of other states."</p>

<p>MANCHESTER, N.H. — Howard Dean recovered some of his support in the New Hampshire primary last night that he'd lost since his poor third-place finish in Iowa last week, but remained a badly damaged candidate.</p> <p>Although he gained slightly on front-runner John Kerry, Mr. Dean could not recapture the lead after his dramatic fall in the polls from first place less than two weeks ago.</p>

The New Hampshire primaries are hard to predict for two main reasons, said Linda L. Fowler, director of the Rockefeller Center for Social Science at Dartmouth. First, the rules make it uncommonly difficult for pollsters to determine who is going to vote. Second, New Hampshire voters tend to change their minds at the last moment. Under the rules, voters can register at the polls on the day of the primary, and about 10 percent of those who voted in the 2000 primaries did so. In addition, 38 percent of the registered voters are independents. They can vote in whichever party...