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...Obama conceded the New Hampshire race to Clinton last night but reminded his supporters, "A few weeks ago, no one could have imagined what we did here tonight. We always knew our climb would be steep...
...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...
...very challenging schedule for everybody. It's not something that I'm telling you that you don't know, I mean, trying to cover all this ground, give people a chance to see you there while still running a national campaign is going to be a hill to climb [laughs] but we're up to it and we're getting ready and prepared to go out and do it everywhere we need to to compete. I don't know whether it'll be finished or not but I kind of suspect it'll be decided by the close...
...head" guy. "But it's a head decision to hew close to his legacy," says Ayers. "All you have to do is look at the approval rating of the President among Iowa Republicans" - it stands at a remarkably high 64% - "and, well, an analyst looking at how to climb back into first could make that decision pretty quick...
...over the border to bargain hunt, and the unemployment rate hit a 33-year low of 5.8% in October, owing to gains in the natural resource and service sectors. But the world's eighth largest economy has lost 329,800 manufacturing jobs since the Canadian dollar began its marathon climb five years ago. From an all-time low of 62¢ in 2002, the turbocharged loonie shot past the U.S. greenback for the first time in nearly 31 years this September and kept right on soaring. Fueled by record prices for Canadian commodities, a surge in foreign investment and anxiety over...