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Few Voters Challenged at College Town Polls

By Josh Rogers on Tuesday, November 2, 2004.

Student voting is a perennial point of partisan friction in New Hampshire Elections. But on election day things were quiet in Hanover.

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Senator Gregg Wins Easy Re-election

By Doug MacPherson on Tuesday, November 2, 2004.

New Hampshire's Senior U.S. Senator cruised to victory yesterday.

Republican Judd Gregg defeated Democratic Challenger Granny D Haddock by a two-to-one margin.

New Hampshire Public Radio correspondent Doug MacPherson has more.

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Record Turnout in Southern Parts of State

By Amy Quinton on Tuesday, November 2, 2004.

New Hampshire voters headed to the polls today in record numbers. Turnout was especially strong in the southern part of the state, including Derry, Hudson, and Nashua.

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State Election Officials Ready for Challenges

By Lisa Peakes on Tuesday, November 2, 2004.

At the Secretary of State's Office, officials are prepared for a very close election and for the voter fraud challenges that may ensue.

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Politics Run Amok

By John Walters on Tuesday, November 2, 2004.

We take an election-day look at one of the most tumultous periods in New Hampshire's election history. The sudden death of Republican Senator Styles Bridges in November 1961 unleashed an unprecedented and dramatic power struggle over the 1962 election. Many of the leading GOP personalities and political families in the state's history were caught in the fray. Host John Walters talks with history professor Stuart Wallace from the New Hampshire Technical Institute in Concord about that year's extraordinary and unique election season.

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Celebrity-In-Chief

By Laura Knoy on Tuesday, November 2, 2004.

Hollywood has long been a part of politics, from Shirley Temple hanging out with Franklin Roosevelt, to Elvis and Nixon, all the way up to Madonna and Martin Sheen endorsing Presidential candidates. We're looking at the history and what this says about American politics. Laura's guest is Alan Schroeder, associate professor in the School of Journalism at Northeastern University in Boston, and author of "Celebrity-In-Chief: How Show Business Took Over the White House".

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