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...team with five assists. Roemer led the Raiders with 19 points and, with his team down 64-53 with just over five minutes to play, had a chance to pull his team within eight as he attempted a three-pointer. But the shot misfired and Housman beat Colgate to the ball, calling a timeout just before his opponents took the ball from him. On the next possession, Unger found Magnarelli for a lay-up and a foul, and the high-scorer hit the free throw, putting his team up 14 and the game wouldn’t be closer than...
...That was the way Romney was going to overcome his low name recognition nationally against celebrity opponents like McCain and Rudy Giuliani. Now the momentum belongs to McCain and Mike Huckabee, whose Iowa win and more-than-respectable third place finish in New Hampshire make him the candidate to beat in the Jan. 19th South Carolina primary, which has historically been vital in deciding who will win the G.O.P. nomination...
...economy, there are only two truly perishable commodities," says Schmidt, "U.S. currency and time." The six-day spread between today and the Michigan primary will make it difficult for Romney to overcome the impression that he has lost not just momentum, but any chance to beat the eventual Democratic nominee...
...meantime, his campaign said there is a silver lining to having a three-person field. "We beat Hillary in Iowa, she beat us here. Obama beat her in Iowa, she beat him here," said Jonathan Prince, Edwards' top strategist. "If you have these results on February 5, no one's the nominee. No one's anywhere near 50 percent... And we think over the long haul we're going to be very competitive...
...climb that turned out to be particularly steep with women voters. Though Obama beat Clinton among men, she bested him by a wider margin among women (especially unmarried women), who vote in New Hampshire in unusually large numbers. And while Obama did better than Clinton among independents, that swing group of voters did not appear to vote in proportions that many expected - and of those, more than expected seemed to opt for McCain. Clinton prevailed amongst registered Democrats, a trend that could be crucial in many states whose upcoming primaries are closed to independents...