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Clark Wins in Rural Area Where Votes Counted This Morning
Aired January 27, 2004 - 09:05 ET
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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Senator John Kerry told us earlier today that he would accept a one point win later today in the primary. Wesley Clark said he was very happy with his position with the state's voters despite polls showing him locked in a race for third place, or possibly even fourth, behind Kerry and Howard Dean.
The candidates now are working to get their supporters to the polls today and tonight's results later could spell the end for some of the campaigns.
Bob Franken has been on the trail since day one, back with us here in Manchester -- Bob, good morning.
BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning.
And now that all the spin is done, it's time for the voters to do whatever it is they're going to do. And as they were going to their polling places throughout the state, many of them, we're told, were waiting until the very last minute, till they were actually in there voting, before they were going to decide what they were going to do.
Of course, there's a large chunk of undecided, independent voters. That is the tradition in New Hampshire, a state that loves political surprises.
Well, the polls have been open in most parts of the state since 6:00 a.m. Eastern, but they started a long time before that.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
FRANKEN (voice-over): Every four years, the tiny hamlet of Dixville Notch has its moment in the sun in the pitch black of nighttime.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And Wesley Clark received eight votes.
FRANKEN: That's the opening of the second act in this Democratic presidential melodrama.
SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The hours are going down here.
FRANKEN: John Kerry must worry about being toppled from the top. Just ask Howard Dean about the incessant reminders of his disaster.
WOLF BLITZER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: But we didn't create your concession speech, you did that. DR. HOWARD DEAN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, but you chose to play it 673 times in one week.
FRANKEN: In the battle for third place, Wesley Clark often battles himself.
GEN. WESLEY CLARK (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I didn't go to Yale. My parents couldn't have afforded to send me there. I went to West Point, I paid my own way through college.
FRANKEN: West Point cadets get a fully paid college education. And, anyway, John Edwards has tried to be the man from the wrong side of the tracks.
SEN. JOHN EDWARDS (D-NC), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We live in a country where there are really two different Americas.
FRANKEN: Joe Lieberman is pinning his hopes on the huge chunk of independents.
SEN. JOSEPH LIEBERMAN (D-CT), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I have been ready to say no to special interest groups or ideological extremists or even my own party.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
FRANKEN: They've actually voted, Bill, in two locations overnight besides Dixville Notch, that was Hart's (ph) location, the CNN machine has tabulated the results. Thus far, Clark 14; Kerry 8, Edwards 2, Dean 4 and Lieberman 1. We are not ready to project a winner in New Hampshire yet -- Bill.
HEMMER: No we're not, Bob.
Thanks.
Bob Franken here.
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Aired January 27, 2004 - 09:05 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Senator John Kerry told us earlier today that he would accept a one point win later today in the primary. Wesley Clark said he was very happy with his position with the state's voters despite polls showing him locked in a race for third place, or possibly even fourth, behind Kerry and Howard Dean.
The candidates now are working to get their supporters to the polls today and tonight's results later could spell the end for some of the campaigns.
Bob Franken has been on the trail since day one, back with us here in Manchester -- Bob, good morning.
BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning.
And now that all the spin is done, it's time for the voters to do whatever it is they're going to do. And as they were going to their polling places throughout the state, many of them, we're told, were waiting until the very last minute, till they were actually in there voting, before they were going to decide what they were going to do.
Of course, there's a large chunk of undecided, independent voters. That is the tradition in New Hampshire, a state that loves political surprises.
Well, the polls have been open in most parts of the state since 6:00 a.m. Eastern, but they started a long time before that.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
FRANKEN (voice-over): Every four years, the tiny hamlet of Dixville Notch has its moment in the sun in the pitch black of nighttime.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And Wesley Clark received eight votes.
FRANKEN: That's the opening of the second act in this Democratic presidential melodrama.
SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The hours are going down here.
FRANKEN: John Kerry must worry about being toppled from the top. Just ask Howard Dean about the incessant reminders of his disaster.
WOLF BLITZER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: But we didn't create your concession speech, you did that. DR. HOWARD DEAN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, but you chose to play it 673 times in one week.
FRANKEN: In the battle for third place, Wesley Clark often battles himself.
GEN. WESLEY CLARK (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I didn't go to Yale. My parents couldn't have afforded to send me there. I went to West Point, I paid my own way through college.
FRANKEN: West Point cadets get a fully paid college education. And, anyway, John Edwards has tried to be the man from the wrong side of the tracks.
SEN. JOHN EDWARDS (D-NC), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We live in a country where there are really two different Americas.
FRANKEN: Joe Lieberman is pinning his hopes on the huge chunk of independents.
SEN. JOSEPH LIEBERMAN (D-CT), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I have been ready to say no to special interest groups or ideological extremists or even my own party.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
FRANKEN: They've actually voted, Bill, in two locations overnight besides Dixville Notch, that was Hart's (ph) location, the CNN machine has tabulated the results. Thus far, Clark 14; Kerry 8, Edwards 2, Dean 4 and Lieberman 1. We are not ready to project a winner in New Hampshire yet -- Bill.
HEMMER: No we're not, Bob.
Thanks.
Bob Franken here.
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