Women Are Never Front-Runners  —  THE woman in question became a lawyer after some years as a community organizer, married a corporate lawyer and is the mother of two little girls, ages 9 and 6.  Herself the daughter of a white American mother and a black African father — in this race-conscious country …

Huckabee vows to defy birthright citizenship  —  Mike Huckabee wants to amend the Constitution to prevent children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens from automatically becoming American citizens, according to his top immigration surrogate — a radical step no other major presidential candidate has embraced.

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 …

LOOKING FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE EXIT POLLS?  —  Looking for leaked exit poll results from New Hampshire?  Sorry to disappoint, but whatever their merits, we are unlikely to see any such leaked results until moments before the polls close.  —  In past years, the network consortium that conducts …

Clinton Braces for Second Loss; Union, Senators May Back Obama  —  NASHUA, N.H. — With Barack Obama strongly favored — even within Hillary Clinton's camp — to win a second straight victory in today's New Hampshire Democratic primary, both rivals are looking to the next battle grounds.

See No Good  —  AT SATURDAY'S New Hampshire debate, Democratic candidates were confronted with a question that they have been ducking for some time: Can they concede that the “surge” of U.S. troops in Iraq has worked?  All of them vehemently opposed the troop increase when President Bush proposed …

Mr. Romney vs. Mr. Romney  —  MITT ROMNEY, struggling to revive his floundering candidacy and to stiff-arm a surging Sen. John McCain in New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary, has pushed his plan for dealing with illegal immigration to center stage.  Unfortunately, it is no plan at all.

Obama's Surge Deflates Forum and Talk of a Bloomberg Run  —  NORMAN, Okla. — He arrived here for what seemed like it could be a big moment.  Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, eyeing a third-party presidential bid, joined Republican and Democratic elders at a forum to denounce the extreme partisanship …

US recession is already here, warns Merrill  —  The US has entered its first full-blown economic recession in 16 years, according to investment bank Merrill Lynch.  —  Merrill, itself one of Wall Street's biggest casualties of the sub-prime crisis, is the first major bank to declare …

Large voter turnout reported  —  MANCHESTER - Long lines of people formed inside some polls this morning minutes after they opened at 6 a.m. for the New Hampshire presidential primary.  —  Louise Gosselin, Ward 6 moderator, said election officials expected about 150 people to vote each hour at St. Pius X on Candia Road.

Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby New Hampshire Tracking Poll: Obama, McCain Enjoy Solid Leads As Election Day Dawns...  Zogby News Releases

Bush of Arabia  —  This U.S. president is the most consequential the Middle East has ever seen.  —  It was fated, or “written,” as the Arabs would say, that George W. Bush, reared in Midland, Texas, so far away from the complications of the foreign world, would be the leader to take America so deep into Arab and Islamic affairs.