Story Archives of 'Exeter'

Senator John McCain returned to New Hampshire yesterday to thank his supporters. McCain has always liked talking in town halls and for this visit, he chose the one in Exeter... the town that was the focus of our series, Primary Place.

The producer of that series, New Hampshire Public Radio’s Jon Greenberg, was there and files this report.

The polls are open across the state. Turnout is expected to be very high. In Exeter, the town we've been following in our Primary Place series, there was a long line waiting for the doors to open at 7. New Hampshire Public Radio's Jon Greenberg is there.

For the past nine months, we’ve been listening to voters in the town of Exeter, New Hampshire. It is a town with families, both of great wealth and of very modest means. Politically, it is about evenly divided among Republicans, Democrats and Independents. Today, in our final installment before the Tuesday’s primaries, New Hampshire Public Radio’s Jon Greenberg re-visits some of the undecided voters we’ve met along the way.

The results of the Iowa caucuses reshuffled the political deck in both the Republican and Democratic races. Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is now in New Hampshire with a decisive win under his belt; Democrat Barack Obama has moved to frontrunner status, with all the benefits and problems that come with that.

In four days New Hampshire voters will have their chance to validate the judgment of Iowans, or to counter that assessment with a different pecking order of their own.

New Hampshire Public Radio's Jon Greenberg has been talking to voters in Exeter today. Exeter is the focus town in our Primary Place series. He describes how Exeter voters are reacting to Iowa to NHPR's Xenia Piaseckyj.

During his swing through the Seacoast Thursday, Barack Obama stopped at the Loaf and Ladle, a restaurant in Exeter. He held a round-table discussion with six independent voters. Obama used the event to tout his record as a government reformer. Correspondent Dan Trudeau has more.