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Candidates Retool Themes on the Fly in NH

Posted Jan 5, 08 2:47 PM CST in Politics 

(Newser) – Presidential candidates were madly shuffling their messages and tactics in New Hampshire today, applying lessons from Iowa and adjusting to NH’s sensibilities, the New York Times reports. Mitt Romney recast himself as a change candidate, while avoiding former go-to issues such as abortion and gay rights. Hillary Clinton threw out her stump speech entirely, instead taking questions, something she’d heretofore avoided.

She also outlined a plan to help families facing foreclosure and plans to hold an event to woo young, independent voters, who went Obama’s way in Iowa. Clinton and Obama look like each others’ main competition here, but an undaunted Edwards attacked both as well-funded establishment candidates. Romney is in a two-horse race with McCain, who ran adds playing on his 2000 victory.

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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., campaigns in Penacook, N.H., Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)   (Associated Press)
Patrick Connelly, center, holds his two sons Mateo, 3, and Daniel, 5 months, while listening to a speech by Republican presidential hopeful former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at the Pinkerton Academy...   (Associated Press)
Republican presidential hopeful former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney signs an autograph at a campaign stop at the Pinkerton Academy in Derry, N.H., Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/LM Otero)   (Associated Press)
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