It's Primary Day, and the two Democrats running for Governor are taking a low key approach to campaigning.
John Lynch of Hopkinton started his day in Concord to touch base with supporters.
But Paul McEachern is spending his day in Portsmouth, where he lives.
New Hampshire Public Radio's David Darman has more.
John Lynch greeted about 10 volunteers when he visited Ward 4 in Concord.
And as he greeted them, Lynch recognized a supporter, Representative John DeJoie.
hey john, how are you? good seeing you again. thanks for coming up. i'm glad to be here. thanks for all you've done. its good to have you here. how things going so far? great day. things are going well. good, good. I'm going to go around, visit all the polling places today. ..
Lynch spent a few minutes with each volunteer to thank them for helping out.
Most were Democrats like him, looking to help him win the primary, and face the incumbent, Craig Benson.
But Lynch clearly didn't expect the greeting he got from a woman holding one of his signs.
hi! i'm pietr chandler and i have your sign on my lawn even though I'm a Republican. o! thank you so much! and i did, i did write you in. (laughter) well, i think its important that you know that republicans will support you. well, thank you for very much for doing that. um hum. thank you. good luck.
Lynch's campaign said they had volunteers covering most of the polling places in the state.
And they also had phone banks calling Democrats and Independents, to urge folks to get out and vote.
But Paul McEachern says his campaign had much less going on.
McEachern says he doesn't have the money in his campaign to do more.
nobody is going door to door and there are people out there making phone calls, but we don't have an organized get out the vote effort. i believe that the people voting for me are voting for the issue of a fundamental fairness of education and they're coming out to vote. they don't need my urging.
McEachern has made instituting an income tax to pay for schools the centerpiece of his campaign.
Lynch has pledged to veto a sales or income tax if elected.
Whoever wins will face the winner of the GOP primary, who is expected to be incumbent governor, Craig Benson.
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