President Biden’s name wasn’t on the New Hampshire primary ballot Tuesday, but his supporters covered the polling places to deliver a big write-in victory for him.
The Associated Press projected Biden as the winner just after the last polls closed. With 92 percent of the precincts reporting, Biden had 66.4 % of the vote, Minnesota Representative Dean Phillips had 19.7 % and Marianne Williamson had 4.0%. The remaining 10% were spread over an array of 20+ other names appearing on the ballot. (My favorites were Paperboy Love Prince and President R. Boddie.)
“Despite President Biden’s absence from the ballot, Granite Staters still turned out in robust numbers to show their support for the great work that the Biden-Harris Administration has done to grow the economy, protect reproductive freedoms, and defend our democracy,” Ray Buckley, chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, said in a statement. He thanked “the hundreds of grassroots organizers who successfully coordinated an historic write-in campaign.”
Marilyn Hazel held signs in Nashua at Sterling Elementary school and I (Lou Bernazzani) filled in for non covered shifts in Portsmouth at the Dondero Elementary School in the morning and at The Senior Activity Center in the afternoon. Voting was brisk at both locations during the day. The Dondero School is in Ward 4 which is the most Republican ward within a Democratic city. Quite a few folks checked in to make sure they knew how to write in Joe Biden and all Dems went out of their way to give us a wave of encouragement.