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New ow were joined in our hampshire studio in manchester a veteran Granite State political reporter and union leader. Tuohy, as returns start coming in tonight, what will you be watching for, as a veteran reporter, whats an early tell about where this state is going . Good morning, the school where he was just speaking is the f the ward schools in city of manchester. Theres 12 wards in the city of manchester. I believe we reported theres another dozen towns in New Hampshire that are correctly called the winner of the republican and democratic primary winners every four years since 1952 and a couple of those, rochester, kingston, hudson. Some of these towns are very notable. On the democratic side, im looking to see how well bernie upper valleyin the of New Hampshire, which is vermont, the state of his home state. And see how well he does up that way. You linton campaign, as know, saying this is his home field advantage, where hes just river the connecticut here. Host and heres the front page of the New Hampshire union paper that dan tuohy writes for. Hes been covering political campaigns in New Hampshire for six cycles now, and joins us, your questions, if you have questions about how the vote goes, turnout, what to look for tonight. Now is the time to call in. The special line for new 2027488003. Rs, otherwise, republicans around the country, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. 2027488002. Ts, on the front page of the new tuohy, one of n the sub head lines is concern about the storm in New Hampshire. Any early concerns that youre seeing early on . Guest i dont think so. I drove about 45 minutes to get here and the roads are fine. The traffic was normal. Have the day off today because some of the polling areas are based in the schools. So it seemed like the roads were fine when i drove in. The sun is coming out in New Hampshire. Should be a good day, and ecretary of state bill gardner mentioned that even with a little bit of snow it shouldnt affect his predictions that it may be a record turnout in New Hampshire. Host you say record turnout. Estimates e specifically on firsttime vote ers and who are they coming to vote for . Good well, thats a question. The secretary of state did not go that route. But he bases his predictions on mostly absentee ballots that have already been cast, a number of them, anyway. Thats the big question of the is where these new voters come from. The university of New Hampshire week ago y about a saying approximately 30 of the since here are really new 2008, so theres a lot of ounger vote ers and some older people that havent moved to the state, of course. So thats a wildcard, but we these people may vote and the undeclared voters in New Hampshire, the socalled independents. Thats another huge voting block. It makes up approximately 40 of he New Hampshire electorate, whether they choose and undeclared voters as you mentioned earlier, can choose to pick up a democratic ballot or a republican ballot. A democratic up ballot to cast a ballot to Bernie Sanders, we dont know. Or on the republican side with donald trump, or maybe ted cruz. We dont know that at this its just another wildcard, if you will. Host seems like you cant open without ar these days new poll about New Hampshire. Is there a specific poll that e your st or what ar feelings about polling in New Hampshire in general . Note thatl, the polls donald trump, here in New Hampshire, just like nationwide, is in the lead. And on the democratic side, Bernie Sanders does have, in lead olls, a significant over Hillary Clinton, and some of these leads for bernie pushing 20 , and i dont think those polls really indicate what the state of the race is. Its going to be much, much closer than that. I think both campaigns acknowledge, you know, that Bernie Sanders here in new but, ire is in the lead, again, at this point in the game, its about getting people ut to the polls and these campaigns have always used echnology and Text Messages to get their people out and do whatever they can to make sure they have a ride, make sure ride to ghbor has a their local polling place, especially some of these towns, say for the Bernie Sanders campaign, where theyre focusing on some of these younger voters, new he university of hampshire in durham, a lot of these younger voters, firsttime voters, there could be some significant notable long lines there. Host if you have questions dan tuohy ampshire, is the expert you want to ask today. We appreciate him joining us on a very busy primary day in the state. Lets get to the calls. Gene is in houston, texas. Line for republicans. Good morning, gene. Caller good morning. Call. You for taking my just a comment and then two questions. Two comments, one is a question. All watched both sides of the things that are going on and ive noticed that Bernie Sanders is being too nice in the area that he doesnt condemn hillary for anything that shes done in my other question is how can they determine how can they determine whos going to be the winner when all the republicans are so close together . That is my comment in thank you again. These more moderate democrats, actually republicans, may split the vote. Often they help out ted cruz or donald trump. We dont know. Its one of those questions we may find outcome 8 00 tonight that the campaign has talked about this as well. Kasich, jebie, john bush, marco rubio, have been fighting for this socalled middle lane against donald trump. Who comes out on top, it might be anyone trying to declare momentum or the big surge in New Hampshire. We will see. A question iss whether Bernie Sanders was being too nice on the campaign trail. Guest Hillary Clinton and her supporters have pointed out that Bernie Sanders is not altogether aboveboard and has done some negative campaigning over the past month or so. Bernie sanders says he has never run a negative ad his life. I think thats part of this push and pull. It shows you how tight this contest is between senator sanders and secretary clinton. Ads saysnders in his he is just contrasting his record with Hillary Clintons record. In the past week, it has been notable watching Hillary Clinton and bill clinton who is in hampshire this weekend really be coming around with right hoax and following up with left hooks at Bernie Sanders, trying to do whatever they can to shun his momentum. Bill clinton playing in New Hampshire, the man i got the name the comeback guest he has a lot of friends here. That is the other storyline. Some clinton people say Bernie Sanders is doing well because he is a hometown candidate. Bill clinton has been campaigning here with Hillary Clinton since 1991. There a lot of friends here. The governor of New Hampshire is a big endorsement in she has been on the campaign trail as well. Senator Jeanne Shaheen has been out notably at a rally yesterday as well trying to inspire local democrats to get out and vote for Hillary Clinton. Kuster. Woman annie on it congresswoman annie kuster. On and on. Side it isie sanders amazing to watch the energy level. You really cannot describe the difference in some of these rallies between a clinton rally and sanders rally. Sanders rally, more boisterous, maybe some newer voters or firsttime voters liking his message. Host tony is waiting on our line for democrats. Good morning. Caller i will say first that you and your guest are dressed just like. You mustve coordinated uniforms or something. Host pretty standard uniform but go ahead. Caller the comment i want to really, i am disappointed. I am a lifelong democrat. Im just an pointed im disappointed because they gave us so few choices. I think bray sanders is going to win the nomination and hes going to have worse gridlock than president obama did when he gets into office because the house of representatives is not going to let any of the socialistic views past. Im thinking about voting for john kasich. He makes the most sense to me. The drawback is he would never make it out of the republican primary so i am stuck between a rock and a hard place. Real democrats hillary has so much baggage and is so fragile i dont think she can even win. Ernie is too far to the left for anybody. Bernie is too far to the left for anybody. Im going to lean toward john kasich, change my affiliation and vote for kasich. Tuohy, is that a feeling that the Kasich Campaign is hoping more than just tony feels . Guest i think so. , johnmment i would make kasich sometimes feels he is running a general Election Campaign already. He brags about expanding medicaid under the afford will care act. For some Republican Voters in a republican primary that is a turnoff. He points out and makes a compelling argument. He spoke to the New Hampshire house of representatives last month and made the case as well. It is a lightning rod issue in New Hampshire as it is in many states. The caller is not alone in feeling like you are between a rock and a hard place. I saw one of my neighbors this morning, republican, who was talking about this was one of the most difficult votes he has had to make in decades. So many candidates he does not not one candidate has really spoken to him or want him over. He has three or four candidates he likes. One of those voters when he goes to the polls today he will be making the decision when he pulls the curtain back. Host a question from twitter on the process of voting. Does New Hampshire have absentee ballots and what about military deployed . Guest yes. There are absentee ballots and of course military and overseas ballots were mailed out in december. By law they have to be out 45 days before the election. They will be counted at some point as well. Host the New Hampshire union front has a column on the page of their paper today with some information about voting. What you should bring to the voting booth, the process and even if you have complaints about the process a number to call for the Attorney Generals Office in the state. The union leader doing its part to get as many people to practice their civic duty as they can today. Yvonne is up in minneapolis, minnesota. Good morning. Caller good morning. I have a couple of comments to make. Im really sick and tired of this two party system. I agree with your earlier caller. All these politicians have done nothing for the people. Thats why i believe Bernie Sanders and donald trump and doing her so well are doing so well. Host do you want to pick up anything from that comment . Guest i think she has her finger on the pulse of the nation. Outsiders, donald trump is not a politician even though he is now. Bernie sanders, an outsider in the sense that he is a former longtime independent from the state of vermont. He has been in congress for 26 years. On the one hand he is not a washington outsider whatsoever. That is the question we will see moving forward here, whether some of these newer politicians can make the most of their newfound support. Host in terms of moving forward , there may be some candidates who dont move forward. The lead editorial in the New York Times, the winnowing out of the candidates. Continue ify not to they dont meet expectations or exceed them tonight in New Hampshire . Guest the New York Times endorsed john kasich and kasich has said if he does not do really well in New Hampshire his campaign may be over. He, my Chris Christie and donald trump and others already have a public schedule out for South Carolina and other stuffs around the country. They are maybe trying to telegraph that they are moving on from New Hampshire one way or the other. Host beth is in North Carolina, line for republicans. Good morning. Are you there . Caller yes i am. I am trying to get in to the conversation on tv. Evidently i have been put through, is the cspan radio . Host you are on the washington journal. Caller ok. Sorry. Host go ahead. We are midway between wilmington North Carolina and myrtle beach South Carolina. I am just calling in to say that i dont fit the profile for trump supporters. I actually have a masters degree and am retired from a fortune 500 corporation. Unfortunately im not your typical supporter of trump but i am for trump because this is the first time in my life that i am very concerned the direction that our country is headed in. Ocialism does not work it is not good for the average american. Their condition will not improve. All you have to do is look at the European Countries that are married to socialism. The other thing is, this country was founded on rugged individualism. The Democratic Party wants us to believe that government is the solution to all our problems. They are putting out their message that dependencies a could thing. Donald trump is attacking all the sacred towers. The media, Political Correctness. He is the person we need dealing on the International Stage and here at home making this country great again making it back what it was originally founded to be. People who believe in hard work and getting ahead based on individual merit. Host do you want to pick up on that in the expectation for donald trump tonight . Guest i will start with the last point. The expectation, he said this week that he does not have to win New Hampshire. It would be shocking if he does not win New Hampshire. More to the point about what type of a voter is a trump voter, i think she nails it. I have been surprised. Ted cruz has supporters that are not all fiscal conservatives or social conservatives. A wide array of people supporting him. As a journalist you show up at some of these events and realize that person is with ted cruz or that person is with donald trump. You never really can tell. Its a very personal decision when you support a candidate. Donald trump has notable people here in New Hampshire that are supporting his campaign as do all of these other republicans. I am laughing because the republican ballot in the Democratic Party ballot financial primary is 58 names on the ballot. Nine or 10 major republican candidates but there is another almost 20 candidates still in the race, lesserknown candidates that have met the criteria and filed to be on the ballot. Host