Huge turnout reported in N.H. primary

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New Hampshire voters headed to the polls in apparently record numbers Tuesday as the state’s first-in-the-nation primary readied to deliver long-awaited results that could write a new chapter in a 2008 campaign narrative that thus far has been both historic and impossible to predict.

Amid clear skies and unseasonably balmy temperatures, New Hampshire’s traditionally taciturn residents appeared to rush to polling places. Secretary of State Bill Gardner said turnout in the GOP primary would be at least 240,000 — which would equal the party record set in 2000. On the Democratic side, there were fears that some polling places, particularly on the seacoast, could run out of ballots.

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