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Tight race in New Hampshire, post caucus poll shows — MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN) — With three days to go until the New Hampshire primary, it's dead even in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. — A new CNN/WMUR New Hampshire presidential primary poll conducted …
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Primary Monitor / yourconcord.com:
Monitor post-Iowa poll: McCain +6, Obama +1 — John McCain has doubled his support since mid-December and leads Mitt Romney, 35 percent to 29 percent, according to a Concord Monitor/Research 2000 post-Iowa survey of likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Democratic Debate: Edwards Backs Up Obama — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) cast off the magnanimous, above-the-fray approach she had used up until now in the campaign, aggressively challenging Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) and former Sen. John Edwards (N.C.) over which of the three can truly bring about change.
Robert D. Novak / Townhall.com:
Mitt's Divided Strategy — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Desperate to save Mitt Romney's Republican presidential campaign in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, his advisers all wanted to attack Sen. John McCain but were divided about how to do it. — Coming out of his disappointing performance in the Iowa Caucuses …
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Clinton: Obama has changed positions — MANCHESTER, N.H. - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democratic presidential front-runner no longer, accused campaign rival Barack Obama of changing his positions on health care and “a number of issues” Saturday night in a debate three days before the New Hampshire primary.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
CNN/WMUR: No bounce — I got an early look at the CNN/WMUR …
CNN/WMUR: No bounce — I got an early look at the CNN/WMUR …
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Marc Ambinder:
The GOP Debate: Thoughts.... On points, Fred Thompson won the debate. — Every answer was thoughtful and well-crafted; his tone matched the tone of the question; he wisely refrained from interjecting in the back and forth squabbling. He very deftly reminded viewers that he served …
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Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
Too Much Romney-Bashing — A quick thought on the GOP debate: — Mitt-bashing has been a preoccupation of this blog*, and it was out in full-force tonight. Huckabee kicked off the proceedings after Romney told him to worry about explaining his own position “and I'll explain mine.”
Michelle Malkin:
Saturday night jive: The New Hampshire debates; Round One - GOP candidates — Update 9:16pm Eastern. Here's the vid of McCain's knock on Romney: “You're the candidate of change." And more vid highlights/lowlights here. — Caption contest! — Mark Hemingway at The Corner: “You hate the rich?
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Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
“I Thought That Mitt Romney Won The debate.” — Dick Morris is no friend of Mitt Romney, and his declaration of Romney as the “winner” tonight is the assessment that caught my eye. That's called “an admission against interest,” and it is very significant. I think I know why.
Lynn Sweet:
Fox's Bill O'Reilly in confrontation with Obama staffer at rally. UPDATE — NASHUA, N.H.— Fox News host Bill O'Reilly got into a confrontation with an Obama aide after O'Reilly started screaming at him as he tried to get Barack Obama's attention following a rally here.
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New Hampshire Union Leader:
State GOP withdraws as FOX debate partner — MANCHESTER - The New Hampshire Republican Party has quit “with regret” as a co-sponsor of tomorrow night's nationally televised GOP forum on FOX News. — The 8 p.m. event at Saint Anselm College — the last debate before Tuesday's primary …
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John Dickerson / Slate:
The O'Reilly Rumble — WATCHING REALITY TELEVISION AT AN OBAMA RALLY. — You know when a celebrity television personality like Bill O'Reilly arrives at a political event because they always have a retinue and because people turn their cameras and camera phones from the candidate to capture the famous face.
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Senator Hillary Clinton / New York Times:
The Democratic Debate in New Hampshire — The following is the transcript of the Democratic presidential debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., as transcribed by Federal News Service. — DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES DEBATE PARTICIPANTS: — FORMER SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS (D-NC)
Chuck Todd / MSNBC:
Initial takeaway: Obama gets to play frontrunner — From NBC's Chuck Todd — The focus on this debate for so many in New Hampshire and the media was twofold — how would Obama handle being the frontrunner and how would Clinton handle be the challenger. Well, thanks to a subdued format …
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