Voters trickled into polling places throughout the state Tuesday to choose candidates in a variety of statewide, regional and local primaries, including which Republican Greenwich businessman Tom Foley or state Senate Minority Leader John McKinney will face Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy in November.

Polls closed at 8 p.m. and candidates awaited results as they were being tabulated by poll workers across the state.For the latest election results, visit courant.com/elections.

Earlier Tuesday, Foley greeted voters in Southington, shaking hands and making small talk. He asked one family with young children in tow if the youngsters were old enough to vote. "We voted at 6:45 this morning, with my three-year-old twins," Foley said.

McKinney took his son Matthew with him when he voted Tuesday morning in Fairfield. John McKinney was the 57th person to cast a ballot at the Fairfield Senior Center; Matthew McKinney was number 58.

Across the state, registrars were reporting mostly low turnouts. Polls opened at 6 a.m. and closed at 8 p.m.

In heavily Republican Greenwich, Foley's hometown, 1,627 people or about 13.4 percent of the town's eligible voters had voted as of 5:40 p.m.

As of 3 p.m., Glastonbury registrars were reporting a little over a 10 percent turnout. "It has been steady as it goes," said Republican Deputy Registrar Lisbeth Becker, who added the largest district turnout was at Hopewell Elementary School, with 12.6 percent. "We aren't giving up yet, but turnout has been pretty low," she said.

Registrars in Farmington and Simsbury both reported a low turnout as off 1:30 p.m. According to the Farmington registrar of voters' office, the turnout was slightly under 10 percent. Simsbury had 370 people cast votes, according to the Simsbury registrar of voters' office.

Typical pace for a primary

At the Hartford Seminary precinct in the city's West End, poll moderator Janielee Reyes said 145 people had cast ballots by 11:30 a.m. -- about the typical pace for a primary, she said.

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Whether it is running, swimming, weight lifting or aerobics, fitness experts say the center of all exercise routines is the core - the abdominal, back and muscles around the pelvis - which is the seat of stability, strength and power.

Adding in exercise routines to strengthen the core can help the runner go faster, the basketball player jump higher and the everyday exerciser more easily do routine tasks from loading the car to cleaning the tub.

"The core is everything except for arms, legs and head," said Daniel Taylor, co-author with Greg Brittenham of the new book "Conditioning to the Core."

It is the mainstay of the body, according to Taylor, who is the head strength and conditioning coach at Siena College in upstate New York.

"People need to get away from saying 'I'm going to do abs today' and take a larger view," said Taylor, whose book contains more than 300 exercises, ranging from planks, squats and lunges to medicine ball and kettlebell throws presented in progressive routines.

"A lot of times people get stuck in one or two routines and get good at them," he said. "You've got to make things more challenging to keep progressing."

Taylor said everything is linked to the core.

"If you jump it's transferred to the core. If you want to be a better recreational running, strengthening the core will help because your anchor is better," he explained.

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Center of all exercise routines is the core: Experts