NH primary could make, break candidacies
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Republican Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney collided Tuesday in New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary, rivals in urgent need of a triumph in the campaign for the White House. Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton squared off in the Democratic race.
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New Hampshire is John McCain's last stand, his best opportunity to revive a presidential campaign that was near death last summer.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's decision to drop his party affiliation makes him ineligible to compete in the New Hampshire primary, which is open to independent voters but not independent candidates.
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Maryland is a state where politicians get elected and tend to settle in. But Tuesday's party primaries are the first step in a dramatic reordering of the political hierarchy, one that will mean a new U.S. senator for the first time in decades and could result in new faces in every statewide office.
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Tuesday's primary in Rhode Island will decide if an embattled GOP senator can help his party hold on in November.
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The announcement by former Democratic Gov. Jeanne Shaheen that she will challenge New Hampshire Republican Sen. John E. Sununu already has prompted one potential primary competitor, Portsmouth Mayor Steve Marchand, to withdraw his bid and support her candidacy.
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THE RACE: The presidential race for Democrats in New Hampshire.
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Where does the Republican presidential race in New Hampshire stand? New Hampshire Republicans had a debate and now they have a new frontrunner.
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A New Hampshire paperâs anti-endorsement called the candidate a âphony.â
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'There are no incumbents' says primary participant as voters turn out in force
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Crowds, barbs mark final stage of New Hampshire primary campaign ... McCain gets nostalgic as he seeks repeat of 2000 New Hampshire primary win ... Campaigning takes a toll on Obama's voice ... Huckabee encourages N.H. voters to be first primary voters to choose him.
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On Monday, CQPolitics.com wrote about the continued importance of the presidential primary in New Hampshire. The state also holds another distinction: It is one of only two states in which the governor serves a two-year term instead of four years. In which other state does the governor serve a two-year term?  Wisconsin Alaska Maine Vermont
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"Primary Mistake" (Sentinel, 212 pages. $25.95), by Steve Laffey: There are a lot of possible reasons Steve Laffey lost last year's Republican Senate primary in Rhode Island against former U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee. Laffey points the finger in one direction &#151; at his own party.
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The Democratic National Committeeâs decision to punish the state for moving up its presidential primary has provoked local party members.
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The state is going ahead with its primary on Jan. 5, despite a penalty by the Republican National Committee that will strip it of half its delegates
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CONCORD, N.H., Jan. 3 -- As the presidential race shifts to New Hampshire, the Democratic candidates are continuing the intensive organizational battle that defined their race in Iowa. But the Republican candidates find themselves confronted with what amounts to an entirely different race, with a...
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A good ground game in New Hampshire helped. So did a new message. But the real change came from the candidate herself