The Primary Today - Winning New Hampshire primary

News alert new hampshire primary results
Republican Sen. John McCain and his wife Cindy greet supporters on Keene's Central Square on Jan. 7, less than 24 hours before the voting starts in New Hampshire's presidential primary . Here he meets Rebecca Freitas, 9, and her Dad Jon Freitas of Keene.

While today's mild weather gives voters no excuses - or no good excuses - to avoid the polls, it is melting snow fast.
And for the many campaigns that lodged signs into snow banks, their aesthetic advantage is disappearing. Signs have started to fall or slip out of snow.
One can just visualize the mess tomorrow when the candidates have abandoned New Hampshire and their campaign symbols lie strewn on dirty, melted snow.
10:00 AM in Mason. No lines at the polls. Only one activist out front; for Hillary. The checklist people ask for your name, even though they know who you are--it's the rules. There's lots of great deals at the bake sale: a whoopee pie and a pumpkin bread in a ceramic dish for only $2.50.
After what many on-site officials called a “jam packed” morning, droves of people continue to pour into the Milford Middle School parking lot. As of 11 a.m. people could still be seen frustratingly circling the staff parking lot, searching empty spots that were few and far between.
Sara McNamara and Erica Bunson have taken advantage of the steady crowds by setting up a bake sale outside the gymnasium to help raise money for Milford student scholarships.
“It’s been a very enthusiastic crowd so far,” said McNamara, a Milford women who says the fund helped put two of her children through college.
Also taking advantage of the voter turn out was Jeffrey Frenkiewich, who brought his eighth grade social studies class into the ballot room to help them learn the voting process.
“Voting is especially important for young people to learn because they need to see what the process is like,” said Frenkiewich. “I think once they are exposed to the process they’ll be more likely to vote in the future.