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Associated Press
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Jan 8, 08 7:33 PM CST
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Unseasonably fair weather and a crowded, competitive field of both Republicans and Democrats drew a record number of voters to the polls in New Hampshire yesterday, the AP reports. With 88% of ballots counted, some 453,000 people had voted, besting the previous record of 396,385 votes cast in 2000. This year's total was projected to top half a million.
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CNN
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Jan 8, 08 7:24 PM CST
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The retooled Straight Talk Express pulled through for John McCain once again today, and the Arizona senator rebounded from second in the polls to repeat his 2000 victory in the New Hampshire Republican primary, numerous sources project. With 97% of precincts reporting, WMUR showed McCain drawing 38% of the vote, Mitt Romney with 32%, and Mike Huckabee with 11%.
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Deseret News (Salt Lake)
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Jan 8, 08 6:45 PM CST
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Hopeful he will win the hearts of New Hampshire's undecided, GOP candidate Mitt Romney was effusive and optimistic about tonight's primary. But the ex-Massachusetts governor stressed upcoming races in case he loses here. He vowed to "connect with Michigan," where his father was governor and where he travels next. "Michigan is very personal for me," he told Salt Lake City's Deseret Morning News.
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Boston Globe
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Jan 8, 08 1:15 PM CST
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New Hampshire polling places are reporting record turnout for today's primaries, and the secretary of state’s office is sending more ballots to precincts overrun with voters. There’s no telling yet if predictions of 500,000 primary voters in the state of 1.3 million will pan out, but the Boston Globe reports first-time voters are flocking to have their say.
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New York Times
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Jan 8, 08 12:22 PM CST
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Hillary Clinton is loosening up, taking questions, and (gasp!) showing emotion as her campaign falls behind in New Hampshire, the New York Time s reports. Barack Obama, meanwhile, has become a classic cautious frontrunner. Never a freewheeling, off-the-cuff McCain type anyway, the Illinois senator has now stopped taking questions at rallies or from reporters.
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Bloomberg
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Jan 8, 08 11:05 AM CST
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Online traders give Barack Obama a 91% chance of capturing New Hampshire, a huge jump from the odds on him before his victory in Iowa, reports Bloomberg. Hillary Clinton has just an 8.7% chance, down from 60% before Iowa. "I am genuinely surprised at the groundswell of support that Obama has received," said one strategist. The betting is that the Illinois senator will be the Democratic nominee.
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New York Times
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Jan 8, 08 9:56 AM CST
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The notoriously unreliable youth vote looks ready to shake the 2008 election, or at the very least New Hampshire, the New York Times reports. Barack Obama drew an astounding 57% of young Iowa caucus-goers, and hopes to pull similar numbers in New Hampshire. His unlikely mirror is John McCain, who at 71 still draws hundreds of young people to his events.
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Politico
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Jan 8, 08 8:19 AM CST
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John McCain is back in New Hampshire, dispensing straight talk and cajoling his press corps “base” like it was still 2000. But this time he’s not playing Maverick—he just wants to be the least objectionable candidate, Politico reports. “People may not agree with every stand I take,” McCain says, “but they know I will make decisions based on principles, not polls.”
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New York Times
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Jan 7, 08 8:36 PM CST
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After tomorrow's New Hampshire primary separates the early winners from losers, the trail will change radically, the New York Times reports. South Carolina, Nevada, and Florida will bring more diverse racial demographics into play and turn up the heat on bread-and-butter issues. "All of a sudden you’re playing on a magnified stage," recalls a strategist who worked with John McCain in 2000.
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Politico
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Jan 7, 08 8:06 AM CST
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With late polls showing Barack Obama opening up a sizeable lead in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton shook up her campaign yesterday, setting a more aggressive course and drafting the new message herself, the Washington Post reports. The campaign will hammer home an action vs. rhetoric theme, but won't roll out negative ads, aiming to undermine Obama "without going nuclear," Politico says.
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Fox News
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Jan 6, 08 7:53 PM CST
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"You make up facts faster than you talk, and that's saying something,'' Mitt Romney told Mike Huckabee in a heated Fox News debate tonight, attacking the surging Huckabee on his tax policies in Arkansas and his populist assault on corporate earnings. Romney was less defensive than last night, arguing confidently that he's the most credible agent of change in the GOP field, and challenging Huckabee and John McCain aggressively on immigration.
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USA Today
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Jan 6, 08 7:16 PM CST
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Barack Obama stung Hillary Clinton with a shocking double-digit lead in New Hampshire today, according to two polls. One put him ahead by 13 points. Obama leads Clinton 41% to 28% in a USA Today survey, and 39% to 29% according to CNN, both a far cry from yesterday's tie. Obama’s Iowa win convinced primary voters he “can really go all the way,” said CNN’s polling director, adding Obama boasted a 42% to 31% lead in electability.
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New York Times
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Jan 6, 08 10:11 AM CST
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As the battle for New Hampshire looms, would-be presidents are largely abandoning partisan rhetoric to court the state’s independents, who comprise 45% of the voting base there. The New York Times explores the far-reaching implications in this contest of unaffiliated voters, whose decisions will likely come right down to the wire.
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New York Times
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Jan 5, 08 2:47 PM CST
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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.
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Reuters
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Jan 5, 08 11:48 AM CST
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Hillary Clinton's and John McCain's slim New Hampshire leads grew even slimmer in the latest poll, Reuters reports. McCain leads Romney 32% to 30%, within the margin of error in the Reuters/Zogby poll out today. Clinton leads Obama 32% to 28%, and pollsters expect that margin to shrink as Obama gets a boost from his Iowa win. Edwards is at 20%. Most of the polling took place before the Iowa results were known.
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McClatchy Newspapers
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Jan 4, 08 2:30 PM CST
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In New Hampshire, the accent is on the "New." In recent years, the state has gone from blue collar to white, drawing left-leaning “swamp yuppies” to the traditionally right-leaning state, McClatchy reports. Couple that with "Live Free or Die" Republicans' frustration with the increasingly socially conservative GOP, and the only thing unchanged is the state’s legendary unpredictability.
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New York Times
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Jan 4, 08 12:55 PM CST
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Iowa's caucuses last night delivered a battering to the two parties' establishment candidates, with voters on both sides endorsing relative newcomers who promise an end to the status quo. A first-term senator with a Kenyan father and a Baptist minister most famous for having lost 100 pounds brought low frontrunners whose lackluster finishes called their electability into question, reports the New York Times .
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Politico
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Jan 4, 08 12:22 PM CST
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After an embarrassing third-place Iowa finish, Hillary Clinton is refocusing on New Hampshire and taking the gloves off. Her campaign plans to aggressively paint Barack Obama as too inexperienced for the presidency, Politico reports. Clinton barely mentioned Obama’s name in Iowa, but now you can expect attack ads to fly. “Being the underdog will be very liberating,” said one Clinton supporter.
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Arizona Republic (Phoenix)
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Jan 4, 08 3:42 AM CST
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Caucus night was a triumph for presidential hopeful John McCain, even though he placed fourth, a sliver behind Fred Thompson. McCain had no money to run ads in the state and had been written off as done for months. But his respectable finish in Iowa, coupled with Mitt Romney's trouncing, puts McCain in pole position for a win in New Hampshire on Tuesday, reports the Arizona Republic.
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