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A report today on the Drudge Report Web site said that the secretary of state’s office has been making runs to several towns to bring extra Democratic ballots.
The report said that many New Hampshire towns, including Pelham and Nashua, were experiencing shortages due to the high turnout.
According to the secretary of state’s office, however, no [...]

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Think something’s fishy about your polling place? Got a question about your right to vote? Call U.S. Attorney Tom Colantuono or New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte.
Both offices will staff election inquiry and complaint lines at their respective offices throughout the day and evening during the New Hampshire Presidential Primary Election tomorrow.
The New Hampshire Attorney [...]

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Vietnam veteran Jim Goodnow, who owns the Yellow Rose of Texas Peace Bus, has complained to New Hampshire state police about a driver in John McCain’s convoy.
Goodnow said McCain’s bus forced him into the breakdown lane on I-93 around Salem and Windham. Goodnow said the peace bus was traveling behind McCain’s buses on Sunday afternoon [...]

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Fred Thompson won’t stick around the Granite State waiting for the votes to be counted.
While the other Republican hopefuls are throwing parties for their supporters, Thompson will try to get the jump on the next primary by launching his 11-day bus tour through South Carolina. His campaign says he’ll start the bus tour in Greenville, [...]

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Before the debates started Saturday night, dozens of people arrived at Saint Anselm College. They represented causes they hope the candidates will support.
Among the crowd was Diane Pickles of Haverhill, Mass. She held a sign with pink ribbons. Pickles said she was advocating for Susan G. Komen for the Ciure, which wants more dollars for [...]

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Charles Gibson, the ABC World News Tonight anchorman, quizzed the Republican candidates about their changeable politics on Saturday night. After asking about their principles, he then interrupted former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani when he tried to put himself in the tradition of Ronald Reagan.
Here’s an excerpt from the ABC News transcript:
GIBSON: Let [...]

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Fergus Cullen, chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, has decided to pull out of the partnership with Fox News’ Republican forum Sunday night.
The reason is because the network opted to exclude Duncan Hunter and Ron Paul from the televised event. Cullen tried to convince Fox News to open the forum to all of the [...]

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Mitt Romney and John McCain are scrapping for the New Hampshire Primary victory, and the Romney campaign took the gloves off today with a Top 10 list of times McCain called his esteemed colleagues jerks — and other names — going all the way back to 1995 when McCain and then 92-year-old Strom Thurmond reportedly [...]

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ABC News and WMUR-TV have set the line-ups for Saturday night’s back-to-back debates. Only four of the six Democrats in the race will be on stage, and only six of the seven Republicans, because of a qualifier which has been challenged by both Democratic Party Chairman Ray Buckley and Republican Fergus Cullen as unfair and [...]

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Tom Rath, a senior advisor to Mitt Romney, is calling for John McCain’s campaign vice-chairman to resign for saying the Romney campaign might have been behind the telephone push-poll which delivered disparaging comments about Romney’s Mormon religion and unfavorably contrasted his military service to McCain’s record.
“A half-hearted apology cannot undo these reckless comments,” Rath said. [...]

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