Voters and poll workers at the Parker Varney School polling location on election day January 8, 2008 in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
by Jason George
MANCHESTER, N.H. – Gov. Mike Huckabee got to work here this morning just after polls opened at 6 a.m., pouring coffee and shaking hands with New Hampshire residents, as they went in to cast their votes at a Congregational church.
“May I have your vote today?” Huckabee joked with Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who just happened to be working the same crowds at the same church.
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“I don’t think we can vote,” Giuliani replied straight-faced.
They probably both wish they could, especially Huckabee, whose camp is hoping to knock Giuliani from the third place spot he’s polled at recently. Huckabee himself would only say this morning that he expects to do better than 6th place and that things are moving in the right direction.
“We’re very, very pumped,” he told reporters. “We came here with momentum and we’re leaving here with momentum.”
It’s dark. It’s early. It’s Election Day in New Hampshire.