Voters speak up

Standing in the mist outside Stafford School, Rick Centoni said he'd come to cast a vote for U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York.
"She's more qualified than anyone else," Centoni said.
But, he said, he's impressed with U.S. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois also and hopes that Clinton will tap him for her vice presidential running mate.
"They'd be a good ticket," Centoni said.
He said that he liked Clinton's husband, Bill Clinton, when he was president for eight years.
"I think she's just like him," Centoni said.
At Greene-Hills School, Brian Brady said he's a registered Democrat, but never votes for them in the general election because the party isn't what it was.
He said he voted for Clinton because he viewed her as the weaker candidate for the Democrats.
"I figured that would flip the burger to the cheesy side," he said, and perhaps help the GOP win in November.
His wife, Kathy Brady, wasn't so calculating.
She said she voted for Obama because "he represents change."
Terry Parker, an election official at Greene-Hills, said he thinks that Democratic turnout in Bristol is probably in the neighborhood of 46 percent today, which is quite good.
He said that in 2000, there were 213 Republicans who voted in the GOP primary at Greene-Hills and 362 Democrats.
Today, with an hour left to go, about 738 Democrats had voted, he said, and about 200 Republians.
"That's probably a record for a presidential primary," he said, though it still lags well behind the hard-fought mayoral primary of the early 1970s when Frank Longo defeated Don Cassin.

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