Some Enthusiasm Gap Crap

If you are a liberal Democrat in New Hampshire you may have little enthusiasm for the upcoming elections in November, if the Primary election of September 11 is any indication.

http://sos.nh.gov/2012BallotsNamesPrim.aspx

Secretary of Folksy Stories, William Gardner, predicted a moderate, 160,000 – 170,000, turnout and it looks like we had what might be called a barn burner.

In total, 198,881 people voted in the primary.

About 24,000 more Republican voters used voter ID to cast a ballot this year than their Democrat counterparts.

I thought the primary battle for the Democrat candidate for governor might spark a larger Democrat turnout but I was wrong, just like William Gardner was about overall turnout.

Maybe William Gardner had little enthusiasm for getting his numbers right because he thought the new voter ID law would dampen turnout.

Could the large republican turnout be attributed to Republican voters finally knowing their vote counted?

Or maybe even Democrats are tired of seeing moonbats on their ballots.

Comments

[C. dog]

Perhaps part of the problem is that all the kids weren't back in their seats at higher institutes of partying in the Grate State of NH for this primary go-round. Maybe they were to busy domiciling in sum other state. Should make this November's election have an element of suspense. Perhaps a robust game of "Can you find the phony voter"? If Realpublicans were smart, they would start auditing voter lists, but do so unannounced to make it more fun for all of us.
– C. dog

[Ed Naile]

dog:

Ya know what's funny about the non-resident students in NH?

They can not qualify for in-state tuition unless they live in NH for a year - and can prove it.

There is a great case called, Gary B. Bison and Todd Bison vs. UNH, where the college screwed over some NH residents by charging them out-of-state tuition when the father was working for the government overseas, even though he was born and raised in NH and had property here.

The college looks like a bunch of greedy, selfish, back stabbers - unless the kid was a liberal voter from out of state, they want no part of lax domicile laws.

No state money for UNH until they clean up the elections in Durham, etc.