MANCHESTER, N.H. Brenda McLaughlin is a long way from making up her mind about a presidential candidate. But as she sampled the lunch fare at Manchester’s Red Arrow Diner on Monday afternoon, her eyes lit up at the mention of Rudy Giuliani’s name.
Aboard a small chartered jet, Elizabeth Edwards — lawyer, mother, author, cancer patient, candidate’s wife — was flying recently from New Hampshire to Iowa. She had spent the morning campaigning solo and was meeting her husband, John Edwards, and their younger daughter, Emma Claire, for two day…
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Sickly. Weak. Feeble. Pick your choice.
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In the next few months, TV spots in New Hampshire will start promoting an African American candidate described as a rising star of a new generation, with Chicago roots, Ivy League credentials and a message of hope and idealism.
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A journalistic assessment of Hillary Clinton’s cleavage became the most improbable presidential campaign controversy yet as her team yesterday rolled out a fundraising letter calling a Washington Post column on the subject “grossly inappropriate” and “insulting.”
In a week in which an argument between Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) dominated the political headlines, a new survey offers a warning to all politicians that the American people have come to this campaign with a wholly cynical view of the political process.
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Four days after the Democratic debate in Charleston, S.C., more than 400 questions directed to the GOP presidential field have been uploaded on YouTube, as Republicans are scheduled to take their turn at video-populism on Sept. 17.
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On the Internet sites where conservatives gather to read and chat each day, Fred D. Thompson, the as-yet-unannounced Republican presidential candidate, has been laying out his positions on dozens of issues with little public notice and plenty of rhetorical flair.
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Before he was elected as a tough-on-crime U.S. senator from Tennessee or played a New York prosecutor on TV’s “Law and Order,” Fred Dalton Thompson worked as a lawyer who argued against the government’s authority to regulate drug paraphernalia or to search a boat packed with 14 tons of marijuana.
MANCHESTER, N.H. Elaine Boule met Sen. Barack Obama when he came through the Red Arrow diner on a campaign stop a few weeks back.
Real estate executive Jack Rosen has given Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton $8,800 since last November, nearly double the amount individuals can donate to any single presidential candidate this election.
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The Democratic presidential candidates will line a stage in Charleston, S.C., tonight for their first official debate.
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