Primary Focus

Last night I accompanied a couple reporters (along with my fellow producer and good friend Leo) up to Manchester, NH for the New Hampshire Primary. The results were a foregone conclusion, so excitement and anticipation levels were low, but it was still sort of fun being in the thick of things. Leo and I were assigned to field produce (round up interview subjects, communicate with producers and executive producers back at the station) for a couple reporters covering the Romney campaign. It wasn't too tough to do either because a lot of big names were just milling about in Romney HQ. Here are a few shots from the night.


Room full of Mitt-backers.. pre-victory speech.


NBC News' Peter Alexander (who can be seen on "Today" and "NBC Nightly News)


Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld (who once famously dove into the Charles River wearing a full suit to "proove" it's "safe" to swim in)


Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (yippee.. Tim Pawlenty, the guy who dropped out of the Presidential race on the GOP side well before anything actually got started)


CNN's Candy Crowley (who was a big jokester.. always laughing with her crew and the other reporters in the room)


Fox News' Carl Cameron (who texts more than a 13-year-old girl) -------------------------- Polls closed at 8 pm.. with networks already calling the race for Romney at 7:50 pm.. based purely on exit polls. Turns out this time they were right. Mitt came out to do his thing, flanked by his wife and five sons, around 8:25.











After that.. the room cleared out pretty quickly. No after party. No bar (open or otherwise as you usually see in most other campaign HQ's). Mormons aren't the drinking type, as you know, and apparently not the interesting type, either.





Most of the reporters just chilled in that empty room, putting together their reports on the press risers, through the 11 pm news (newses?) they were reporting for.





That's one of our guys, Dan Hausle, in the gray suit. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone