After the Obama rally, I headed up to Peterborough for a John McCain town hall. The population of the town is 6,000 yet McCain had 600 at his event with the police blocking more people from entering. It is awesome, in the proper sense of the word, how seriously New Hampshire primary voters take their first in the nation role. Talking to them afterwards, one couldn’t help but be struck by their knowledge of the candidates’ records and the sheer number of events they’d been to. Interestingly, a couple of people I spoke to had previously been for Bill Richardson, the Democrat who came fourth in Iowa, but were now moving over to McCain as they don’t think Richardson can win.
As McCain exited the building, lots of people approached McCain to shake his hands. Interestingly, they were nearly all veterans—some from World War Two, others from Korea and Vietnam and a few from Iraq.
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