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"     DURHAM, N.H. \u2014 The winds from Wednesday&amp;#039;s promised nor&amp;#039;easter had already begun to kick up, adding a snap to the red-white-and-blue bedsheet offering University of New Hampshire students rides to the polls here today. Nearby stoof Clare Sipprelle, holding a stack of handouts detailing the various pick-up stops. A flotilla of vehicles, including two full-size buses, a shuttle, and a minivan from Michigan, continuously made the six-minute round trip from the UNH campus to the polls at Oyster Pond High School. Sipprelle herself had come to Durham just this morning, one of a busload of fellow Harvard students bent on assisting with the UNH efforts to get out the Obama vote. &amp;quot;New Hampshire has same-day, on-site registration,&amp;quot; explained Sipprelle, a junior economics major from New Jersey. She had already cast her own absentee ballot \u2014 &amp;quot;just in time before Sandy!&amp;quot; In an election where the New Hampshire vote may well determine the winner, Sipprelle says she felt compelled to try and make a difference today. &amp;quot;I think there&amp;#039;s a growing awareness on that on Election Day, sometimes it takes an extra push to get people to the polls.&amp;quot; The way you can pick out a real UNH student is by the clothing. On this near-winter day, sophomore physical therapy major Molly Ohman had simply tossed on an open flannel shirt over her Obama T-shirt in an attempt to damp the chill. It was cold when she started at six this morning, even she admits, so cold &amp;quot;I had frost on my bicycle.&amp;quot; Ohman was stationed just down the block from Sipperelle, at one of the bus loading stops. She asked each student who passed by if they&amp;#039;d voted yet. If the answer was affirmative, she expoded in a joyous Awesome! Earlier today, she had a box of 100 candy canes to entice potential voters onto the buses. By midday, only three were left, broken in pieces at her feet. &amp;quot;I shouldn&amp;#039;t litter,&amp;quot; she said, suddenly sweeping them up and dumping them into the trash. Treatless, she was still ready to entice non-voters. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s really great,&amp;quot; she said. In New Hampshire, &amp;quot;dorms are considered our domiciles,&amp;quot; providing a legal address for voting purposes. With UNH losing hundreds of thousand of dollars on state and federal support in the last year, she pointed out, every student has a stake in this election. As the students piled off the bus at Oyster Pond, they were handed a sheet of paper by Durham Democratic Party volunteers. &amp;quot;Why not vote the straight DEMOCRATIC ticket ?&amp;quot; it asked, and then went on to list the student interests, like Pell grants, environmental protection, and a woman&amp;#039;s right to chose, that &amp;quot;Republicans and the Tea Party are working hard to take away.&amp;quot; The students were direct to two lines: one for those already-registered, and those who need to register onsite. At 1:30, 500 about-to-become New Hampshire voters, voters never identified by any campaign or contacted by any pollster, were in line. It took a team of some 20 deputized registrars to move the paperwork along. Ann Shrump, supervisor of the town checklist, hadn&amp;#039;t had time to figure out how many had been processed, but she expected things to drop off a bit once afternoon classes started. For their part, Students for Obama were plotting how to keep those numbers up, when night fell in the late nor&amp;#039;easter afternoon and the wait grew even colder. Over in the high-school gym, assistant moderator Gesila Evergem was presiding over the relatively calm voting. She said the last time UNH students registered in these numbers &amp;quot;was when we had Clinton. I think we had about 1700 in one day.&amp;quot; She stopped to ask a young man, clad only in a long sleeve T-shirt and a pair of American flag shorts, if he had his ID. In anticipation of the high interest this year, she continued, the town ran several on-campus voter registration drives, but they didn&amp;#039;t do much to encourage the procrastinators. &amp;quot;Remember when you were in college?,&amp;quot; she asked. &amp;quot;Students don&amp;#039;t think about it till the rah-rah starts.&amp;quot; --ELECTION DAY ON THE POLITICS BLOG: LIVE FROM EVERY SWING STATE... \u2022 FLORIDA: Charles P. Pierce with the Voting-Rights Watchdogs \u2022 OHIO: Mark Warren Traveling with Governor John Kasich (and with Romney) \u2022 NEW HAMPSHIRE: ) \u2022 VIRGINIA: Elizabeth Sile on Voter-ID in New Blue County \u2022 NEVADA: Jason Whithed Searching for Sheldon Adelson \u2022 WISCONSIN: Joe Tarr with the Trained Poll-Watchers \u2022 NORTH CAROLINA: Aaron Gwyn on the Independent&amp;#039;s Indecision \u2022 IOWA: Kyle Minor on the Last-Minute Battleground Road Trip \u2022 COLORADO: Sam Levin at the Last Victory Party (and with Obama and Romney) \u2022 ...AND PENNSYLVANIA: Isaiah Thompson on the Blue State That Would Be Red PLUS: Tom Junod in Chicago with Obama, Margaret Doris in Boston with Romney... and John H. Richardson in Breezy Point with Sandy Victims Voting ELECTION NIGHT ON TWITTER: LIVE FROM EVERY ANGLE... \u2022 @ESQPolitics: Charles P. Pierce, Snarking the Results All Night Long \u2022 @StephenMarche: Watching Nothing but Twitter All Night Long \u2022 @Sullduggery: Matt Sullivan, Watching the Pundits on TV All Night Long \u2022 @TomJunod: Inside the Obama &amp;quot;Victory&amp;quot; Party in Chicago All Night Long "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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