ANCHESTER, N.H. (Jan 8) — The race between Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama remained tight late Tuesday night, with Clinton in the lead.
As of 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, The Associated Press had called the race as a win for Clinton, with 39 percent of the vote for her to 37 percent for Obama. That was with 66 percent of the vote counted. Neither candidate had conceded the race as of filing time.
With 66 percent of districts reporting, Edwards received 17 percent of the vote, according to numbers provided by The New York Times. Democrat Barack Obama, senator of Illinois, received 37 percent of the vote.
Democrat Hillary Clinton, senator of New York, received 39 percent of the vote.
The unofficial totals are Clinton with 55,439 votes, Obama with 55,987 votes and Edwards with 25,524 votes.
As for the Republicans, John McCain, senator of Arizona, declared victory over leading candidates Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts and Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas. As of 10:15 p.m., McCain had received 37 percent of the vote, Romney had received 31 percent and Huckabee had received 11 percent.
Clinton’s New Hampshire primary event was held in a gym at Southern New Hampshire University. The basketball hoops were drawn to the ceiling and the rubber floors were covered with a blue park. A wall with the school’s mascot, the Penman, was covered with a giant American flag.
It has been a trying last two weeks for Clinton. She came in third in the Iowa caucuses and was dealt severe blows by a seemingly aligned Obama and Edwards. At Saturday’s ABC, WMUR, Facebook debate, Edwards suggested that she was the candidate of the “status quo.”
At her primary event, supporters were vindicated by Clinton’s increasingly likely win.
“I knew it. I told her,” said Judi Lanza, a nurse from Goffstown, N.H., who spent five hours on a Manchester corner holding signs for Clinton. “We’ve been campaigning like crazy and my voice is hoarse because of it.”
Earlier on Tuesday, at a polling station in Manchester’s third ward, voters said it was Clinton’s experience that won their support.
Glenn Monnelly, 34, thinks Clinton is the only Democratic candidate who can make real progress in Washington. “I think she’s going to get the job done,” she said. “Hillary, at least I think, has a definite plan.”
Interviews with some voters at the polling station also showed a pattern of unhappiness with Clinton. It was Clinton’s entrenched history in politics that made them wary. Alice Josselyn, 62, said she’s not ready for a female president. “I don’t think we’re ready for women yet,” she said. “And the Clinton history is not very good.”
(Andrew Restuccia, a senior newspaper and religion and society major, is covering the New Hampshire primary for The Sun of Lowell, Mass. )
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As of 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, The Associated Press had called the race as a win for Clinton, with 39 percent of the vote for her to 37 percent for Obama. That was with 66 percent of the vote counted. Neither candidate had conceded the race as of filing time.
With 66 percent of districts reporting, Edwards received 17 percent of the vote, according to numbers provided by The New York Times. Democrat Barack Obama, senator of Illinois, received 37 percent of the vote.
Democrat Hillary Clinton, senator of New York, received 39 percent of the vote.
The unofficial totals are Clinton with 55,439 votes, Obama with 55,987 votes and Edwards with 25,524 votes.
As for the Republicans, John McCain, senator of Arizona, declared victory over leading candidates Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts and Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas. As of 10:15 p.m., McCain had received 37 percent of the vote, Romney had received 31 percent and Huckabee had received 11 percent.
Clinton’s New Hampshire primary event was held in a gym at Southern New Hampshire University. The basketball hoops were drawn to the ceiling and the rubber floors were covered with a blue park. A wall with the school’s mascot, the Penman, was covered with a giant American flag.
It has been a trying last two weeks for Clinton. She came in third in the Iowa caucuses and was dealt severe blows by a seemingly aligned Obama and Edwards. At Saturday’s ABC, WMUR, Facebook debate, Edwards suggested that she was the candidate of the “status quo.”
At her primary event, supporters were vindicated by Clinton’s increasingly likely win.
“I knew it. I told her,” said Judi Lanza, a nurse from Goffstown, N.H., who spent five hours on a Manchester corner holding signs for Clinton. “We’ve been campaigning like crazy and my voice is hoarse because of it.”
Earlier on Tuesday, at a polling station in Manchester’s third ward, voters said it was Clinton’s experience that won their support.
Glenn Monnelly, 34, thinks Clinton is the only Democratic candidate who can make real progress in Washington. “I think she’s going to get the job done,” she said. “Hillary, at least I think, has a definite plan.”
Interviews with some voters at the polling station also showed a pattern of unhappiness with Clinton. It was Clinton’s entrenched history in politics that made them wary. Alice Josselyn, 62, said she’s not ready for a female president. “I don’t think we’re ready for women yet,” she said. “And the Clinton history is not very good.”
(Andrew Restuccia, a senior newspaper and religion and society major, is covering the New Hampshire primary for The Sun of Lowell, Mass. )
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