Clinton edges Obama in N.H.; McCain topples Romney
By Scott Hellman and Susan Milligan | Wednesday, January 9, 2008 | The Boston Globe
“…Senator Hillary Clinton of New York scored a narrow but impressive comeback victory in New Hampshire’s Democratic presidential primary yesterday, as the Granite State again salvaged a troubled Clinton campaign and rejuvenated the former first lady’s bid to return to the White House.
Senator John McCain of Arizona also repeated history, delivering an electric jolt in the Republican presidential contest, winning the state’s GOP primary as he did eight years ago and imperiling the political prospects of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.
Drawing heavily on support from female voters as well as older ones, Clinton beat Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, 39 percent to 36 percent in a race that Clinton’s campaign had appeared resigned to losing as late as yesterday afternoon. Her victory, just five days after a bruising loss to Obama in the Iowa caucuses, turned the contest into a fierce, two-candidate duel….”…BS
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