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By all accounts, Europe is extraordinarily interested in this year’s presidential race and primaries; coverage has been extensive and in-depth. I wondered how it all seems to my fellow blogger, roadsofstone, who is an incisive thinker and a terrific writer. I am pleased beyond words that he’s agreed to be my first guest blogger, especially as he […]

In an upset, New York Senator Hillary Clinton has won the New Hampshire Democratic primary with 39% of the vote. Illinois Senator Barack Obama, who led in the polls, had 36%.
Former Senator John Edwards, who was second in Iowa, came in third, with 17% and Bill Richardson won 5%.

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According to CNN projections, Arizona Senator John McCain has won the Republican primary in New Hampshire with 37% of the vote. Mitt Romney was second with 28% and Mike Huckabee third with 12%.
It’s a remarkable comeback for McCain, whose then-moribund campaign was nearly out of money and staff last summer.
McCain easily won this primary in 2000, […]

Tonight’s tracking polls for WMUR and CNN show Barack Obama and John McCain retain their leads for their parties’ primaries tomorrow. Obama leads Democrats with 39% and McCain tops Republicans with 31%, down one percentage point from yesterday. Obama’s lead over Hillary Clinton is also down by one percentage point; she is at 30% now. […]

Weekend polling by WMUR and CNN shows Barack Obama with a double-digit lead going into Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. The poll, conducted over the weekend, finds Obama with 39% of the support, to Hillary Clinton’s 29%. A poll released Saturday had found them in a dead heat at 33%.
This latest tracking poll also shows John […]

Iowa! Did you notice Hillary’s concession speech wasn’t a concession at all, but was a stump speech? Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Mike Lester of Georgia’s Rome News-Tribune thinks so too.
And I’ll go out on a limb today and predict she will make another concession speech Tuesday night. I think Obama will win […]

Republican Mike Huckabee was projected the winner of his party’s Iowa caucuses not quite one hour after the process began. Huckabee ran a God-centric campaign in a state with many evangelicals. It’s a different electorate here in New Hampshire, where the first-in-the-nation primary will be held January 8.
Huckabee has spent only about $30,000 to advertise in […]

A just-released poll by WMUR and CNN shows Hillary Clinton’s lead over Barack Obama in New Hampshire has vanished. They are in a statistical dead heat, with Clinton’s support at 31% and Obama’s at 30%.
Since November, her support has dropped by 5 percentage points, while his has risen by 8 percentage points.
On the Republican side, […]

At long last, the dispute between New Hampshire and Michigan over primary election dates is over, after the Michigan Supreme Court gave that state the go-ahead to hold its primary January 15. New Hampshire then announced its primary will be January 8, retaining its first-in-the-nation status. That’s the earliest presidential primary ever and is three […]

The Republican field of presidential candidates has shrunk by one. Kansas Senator Sam Brownback dropped out this week, citing a lack of support and money. No surprise here; last month he gave a speech in the heavily-populated (for New Hampshire) southern part of the state and only a handful of people showed up. Perhaps it […]

It’s one thing to change your position on an issue. It’s another to do so after ridiculing an opponent. 
Back in July, when Barack Obama said during a debate that he would be willing to meet with Iranian leaders, unconditionally, Hillary Clinton called his position irresponsible and naive.
Yesterday, in a Canterbury, NH apple orchard, a citizen […]

It’s finally starting to feel like primary time, a bit late this go-round. Yard signs and bumper stickers have been late to appear — I’ve seen one of each for Ron Paul and one huge, next-to-an-interstate sign for Rudy Giuliani. That’s it. [Afternoon yard sign update: two Romneys, one McCain] I’ve seen a couple TV […]

Republican Senator John McCain has changed his mind about illegal immigrants.
At one time he championed a bill that would have enabled many of the estimated 12 million illegal aliens in the US to achieve citizenship through a guest worker program. The bill failed earlier this year and McCain, whose presidential campaign is also failing, has a […]

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama announced today his campaign raised $32.5 million in the past three months, the largest quarterly sum ever for any Democrat in a pre-election year.
More than 154,000 donors contributed to the Illinois senator’s campaign in the second quarter.
Hillary Clinton has yet to announce her second-quarter tally; her campaign has indicated an […]

The publishers of the two upcoming biographies of Hillary Clinton have changed their publication dates yet again. According to The New York Times, Knopf will publish A Woman in Charge by Carl Bernstein two weeks from today, on June 5, and Little, Brown will publish Her Way by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta, Jr. […]