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John McCain did not celebrate when AP called New Hampshire in his favor Tuesday night. His supporters, downstairs in the hotel ballroom of the Nashua, N.H., Crowne Plaza, erupted in cheers. But upstairs, in the Presidential Suite, McCain and half a dozen others, including his wife, Cindy, continued to watch Fox News. Faces were tense; Cindy crossed her arms and held her elbows like she was keeping herself physically together...
...Hampshire loss to Barack Obama - possibly by a double-digit margin, according to some polls and the campaign's own worst fears. "I was with them all day," said one friend, who watched Clinton and her team write the first drafts of her speech in a Concord hotel suite. "They did not see this coming. No one did." Except, perhaps, you know who; the friend said that at one point during the afternoon, Bill Clinton confided, "You know something, I think we can do something here...
Before the polls closed, Obama had a quiet dinner at his hotel in Nashua, N.H., with his wife and his sister, no aides in sight. He conceded victory at about 11 p.m. EST and called for equanimity from his voters. "You can be the new majority in American politics," he said, able to "disagree without being disagreeable...
...crammed and overheated hotel basement, the painful contradictions of Bhutto Zardari's appointment to the chairmanship of the PPP were laid bare: here was a young man dealing with a country plagued by poverty from a boutique hotel in Kensington on behalf of a party claiming to push for democracy even as it consolidates a dynasty. The British press pack was relentless. One BBC journalist asked: "What on earth do you propose as a 19-year-old who has hardly lived in the country, what do you propose you can offer Pakistan, a country of 170 million people...
...period of uncertainty to lead his people to salvation. But in Pakistan, a land already ravaged by competing myths of religion and tribalism, it is clear that what this 19-year-old neophyte needs most is not another fable but a thorough initiation into realpolitik. In a crowded London hotel room today, he received his first lesson...