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Poll: Obama jumps ahead of Clinton in New Hampshire — MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN) — With two days to go until the New Hampshire primary, a new CNN/WMUR poll out Sunday afternoon suggests that Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois has opened up a double digit advantage over New York …
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Obama up by 13 points, McCain up by 4 in USAT/Gallup Poll in N.H. — Sen. Barack Obama has opened up a 13 percentage point lead over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the battle for votes in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll conducted in the state from Friday through this afternoon.
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Hillary advisers fear N.H. loss — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Sen. Hillary Clinton's strategists, desperate for a win in New Hampshire, have decided against unleashing attack ads against Sen. Barack Obama before Tuesday's primary, Democratic sources said. — The senator's aides concluded …
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Is There Something Happening Here? — Something rather odd is happening in New Hampshire, and for once it has nothing to do with my Nashua based in-laws. While bearing in mind that what follows may be a Romney guy struggling to keep hope alive... Rasmussen's polls show the race tightening.
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Poll: Obama, McCain leap ahead in N.H. — NASHUA, N.H. — Amid frenetic last-minute campaigning, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds the onetime front-runners in New Hampshire lagging as Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain have surged to leads before Tuesday's primary.
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In New Hampshire, Bill Clinton Is Finding Less Spark — DURHAM, N.H. — Is this what it would have been like had Elvis been reduced to playing Reno? — Former President Bill Clinton has been drawing sleepy and sometimes smallish crowds at big venues in the state that revived his presidential campaign in 1992.
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Romney Rising — Whoa. Did you see the Luntz focus group of undecided voters: an overwhelming surge to Romney. This was the first well-managed debate and Romney had the best of all of his debate showings. — Oliver Wendall Holmes once famously remarked about FDR that the president had a A …
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Obama takes double-digit lead in N.H., poll shows
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Sunday night roundtable: The Fox News/GOP debate — 9:35pm Eastern. Wow. Frank Luntz's focus group was just asked about Romney. Only a few raised their hands to say they supported him before the debate. Almost all raised their hands to say they were supporting him afterward. Look:
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SCORING TONIGHT'S GOP CANDIDATES' FORUM — I'd like to score this discussion like a prize fight, by round. Here we go. First round: … I score this round on taxes as a tie between Giuliani and Romney. Next round: Moderator Chris Wallace turns the subject to Social Security:
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Videos: Mitt and Mike go a couple of rounds Update: Fred's speech on immigration added — Romney's interest tonight is in pushing back the Huckabee surge; Huck wants to knock off Romney now, take over as many of his supporters as he can and move on to the bigger states that Giuliani is counting on.
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Winners and Losers: Rank 'Em Up — 1. Mitt: He was a stronger, more real version of Mitt tonight. I truly enjoyed it, and I haven't thought he's won a debate since the very first Republican debate. I think he probably did himself a lot of good in New Hampshire tonight, and the Luntz focus group shows it.
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From smackdown to somnolent — Sequels are almost never as entertaining as the original.
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Bad Romney Staffer! Bad! Bad! Bad! — Absolutely hilarious. — GMP1 thinks that the girl in the video is a Romney staffer. — Anyway, what Romney staffer (or volunteer or supporter) pulls a stunt like this in front of at least two video cameras (the one recording the footage …
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Edwards vows to stay in race to convention — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Democrat John Edwards said Sunday he will stay in the presidential race through the party's convention in late August, even if he fails to win any of the early presidential primary states. — “This is the call of my life …
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Obama Exclusive: Barack Sits Down for First Interview Since Iowa Win — Diane Sawyer Talks With the Presidential Hopeful About Debate Performance and More — After pulling off a victory in Iowa, and with only two days before the New Hampshire primary, presidential hopeful Barack Obama, D-Ill., is on fire.
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Video of O'Reilly calling Obama staffer an “SOB” and “low class” — Poor O'Reilly, he wasn't able to do what his big ego wanted to and he got all upset . Here's some of BillO's meltdown with an Obama staffer in NH. It's probably after most of the ruckus that occurred between the two was over.
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Back to Iraq — In Nashua, Hillary skates on the edge of Iraq revisionism: … Now, that's probably true in the literal, alternate history sense: As president, she wouldn't have taken the U.S. into war. But it also revives a conversation that had flagged, about her initial vote for the use of force.
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THE PACK....Ezra Klein watches pack journalism at work, 2008 style, and it's not pretty. Nickel version: If some other reporter says Hillary Clinton melted down because she displayed a flash of emotion in last night's debate, then she melted down. After all, who are you going to believe, the spin room or your own lyin' eyes?
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