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Media Circus at New Hampshire Polling Site

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Getty P 011012 GingrichSwarm?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1326216644030Andrew Burton/Getty Images(MANCHESTER, N.H.) — Newt Gingrich was engulfed by an army of cameras and reporters as he visited a polling place in New Hampshire on Tuesday morning to kick off the primaries.

Two reporters were pushed to the ground in what can best be described as a mob scene at the Webster school in Manchester.

Security barricaded the press because voters on their way to the polls were getting pummeled. A wall of mostly Mitt Romney’s supporters chanted, “We Want Mitt” as voters entered the polling site.

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Gov. Mitt Romney also visited the polling site Tuesday morning. His security team put a tight perimeter around him and his wife, Ann, amid concern about the crush. The former Massachusetts governor arrived in his campaign bus and walked up to the supporters near the door, shook hands, and turned back around. Romney said he hopes that he does well and that if he gets, “double the number of vote margins that we had in Iowa, I’d feel terrific.”

“I hope the people of New Hampshire turn out,” he added. “The entire nation is watching.”

Rick Santorum was also scheduled to attend but his campaign said they changed plans when they saw “the mob.”

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