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7:50 AM ET, January 8, 2008

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CNN:
First votes counted in New Hampshire primary  —  DIXVILLE NOTCH, New Hampshire (CNN) — Voters in two New Hampshire hamlets cast their ballots Tuesday just after midnight in the state's first-in-the-nation presidential primary, hours before the rest of the state's polling places open.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and The Strata-Sphere
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Clarke Canfield / Associated Press:
McCain, Obama, get early votes in N.H. villages  —  DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H.—Residents of two tiny towns stayed up late to give Barack Obama and John McCain early victories in the New Hampshire presidential primary.  —  Voters in Dixville Notch and Hart's Location cast the initial ballots just after midnight Tuesday.
You Decide 08!:
MCCAIN, OBAMA WIN FIRST BALLOTS IN DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H.  —  John McCain and Barack Obama won their parties' early polling in the first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire Tuesday, though it was no indication of how the state's votes would turn.  —  Nonetheless, the early excitement …
Marc Ambinder:
Romney's Challenge To Obama  —  BEDFORD — First, the crowds.  —  It was one of Mitt Romney's largest events in New Hampshire.  800 residents packed into a middle school here in this wealthy, mostly Republican suburb, with many more turned away.  Cars were parked a half a mile down the road.
Discussion: race42008.com
Richelieu / Weekly Standard:
Only Obama Can Beat Obama  —  Time to adjust some final predictions from my barstool here in New Hampshire.  —  I thought Huckabee would get something going here.  He has, but not much.  Romney gave him a good beating in the first minutes of the Fox debate last night, and the Huck's schedule here has been light.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Human Events:
New Hampshire Predictions: Obama Blowout; Romney Rallying
Michael Elmore / Political Radar:
Rivals Reacts to Teary Clinton  —  ABC News' David Muir, Raelyn Johnson and Sunlen Miller Report: Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., on the tail end of his 36-hour campaigning marathon in New Hampshire on day before the primary vote, reacted to rival Sen. Hillary Clinton's emotional moment Monday.
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Thomas Sowell / Real Clear Politics:
Remember, We're Choosing a President  —  It was not that long ago that the big political question was how Rudolph Giuliani would do against Hillary Clinton in the November election.  —  The Iowa caucus votes have made that question sound like ancient history, if not science fiction.
Discussion: GINA COBB
Ed O'Keefe / ABCNEWS:
Clinton Fires Back: Obama, Edwards Given ‘Free Ride’  —  Former First Lady Tells ABC's Diane Sawyer Emotional Moments Come With Political Turf  —  Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., caused a stir on the campaign trail, welling up at an event in New Hampshire.  Hours later, she sat …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
BAD CALL  —  There's been a lot of rough news for Hillary Clinton in the last 72 hours.  And a lot of unforced errors.  But I think on this MLK and Lyndon Johnson remark, the edited quote that's circulating from The Politico is misleading.  —  The Politico quote is ...  But I think the full quote reads differently.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Clinton and Obama, Johnson and King  —  Clinton rejoined the running argument over hope and “false hope” in an interview in Dover this afternoon, reminding Fox's Major Garrett that while Martin Luther King Jr. spoke on behalf of civil rights, President Lyndon Johnson was the one who got the legislation passed.
Mary Katharine Ham / TownHall Blog:
Iron My Shirt  —  I'm still at the Hillary rally.  My computer battery died.  —  Two protestors just stood up in the audience holding orange signs that read “IRON MY SHIRT,” and chanted “Iron my shirt, Iron my shirt” for a few seconds until led out by security.
Discussion: Gateway Pundit, FOX Embeds and MSNBC
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
BILL TO PAUL SUPPORTERS: 'YOU'RE NUTS'  —  From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli  —  KEENE, NH — Several Ron Paul supporters shadowed a much larger Clinton entourage as Bill Clinton greeted supporters downtown.  The former president later called them “nuts."  —  During his third stop of the day …
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Philip Elliott / Associated Press:
Protesters ask Clinton to iron shirts  —  SALEM, N.H. - Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign stop was interrupted Monday when two men stood in the crowd and began screaming, “Iron my shirt!” during one of her final appearances before the New Hampshire primary.  —  Clinton, a former first lady running …
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Washington Wire:   Sexism Is 'Alive and Well'  —  Amy Chozick reports …
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
A Candidacy's Prose and Cons  —  CONCORD, N.H. — Hillary Clinton may have unintentionally written the obituary for the Iowa and New Hampshire phase of her presidential campaign, and perhaps her candidacy, when she told voters on Sunday: “You campaign in poetry, but you govern in prose.”
Discussion: Eunomia
Daniel Pipes / Townhall.com:
Fascism's Legacy: Liberalism  —  Liberal fascism sounds like an oxymoron - or a term for conservatives to insult liberals.  Actually, it was coined by a socialist writer, none other than the respected and influential left-winger H.G. Wells, who in 1931 called on fellow progressives to become “liberal fascists” and “enlightened Nazis.”
Discussion: The Corner
Christian Schneider / The Wisconsin Policy …:
The Woman Who Changed the World  —  With Barack Obama's meteoric rise topping the news these days, many people have forgotten the bizarre series of events that paved the way to his stunning ascendance.  It's especially interesting given that some personal and minor details …
 
 
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End of an Era  —  The Obama wave, which has been building for months …
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
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