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NEW HAMPSHIRE News:
 Barack
Obama - 2008
Election -  Federal
-  Law
-  Politics
-  Investigation
-  Colorado
-  Indiana
-  Ohio
-  Michigan
-  Nevada
-  North
Carolina - New
Hampshire -  Wisconsin
"Obama Campaign: Count Every Vote." ... "Republicans have been raising a huge stink about voter fraud in recent days, but the much bigger question on Election Day [2008] is whether every vote (or at least most of them) will actually be counted." ... "The New York Times published a shocking story last week, reporting that "tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law."" ... "The article continued: "Although much attention this year has been focused on the millions of new voters being added to the rolls by the candidacy of Senator Barack Obama, there has been far less notice given to the number of voters being dropped from those same rolls." The paper looked at six swing states: Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Nevada and North Carolina. "Michigan and Colorado are removing voters from the rolls within 90 days of a federal election, which is not allowed except when voters die, notify the authorities that they have moved out of state, or have been declared unfit to vote. Indiana, Nevada, North Carolina and Ohio seem to be improperly using Social Security data to verify registration applications for new voters."" ... "The net effect: in Michigan 33,000 voters were removed from the rolls in August and in Colorado 37,000 voters were purged in three weeks since mid-July. Imagine this scenario--on Election Day thousands of voters will show up to the polls, only to be told they're not registered, leading to chaos and confusion, perhaps in large enough numbers to swing the results in crucial swing states." ... "It's a scary thought--and one the [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack] Obama campaign says they're preparing for. On a conference call today, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe and legal counsel Bob Bauer laid out their plans to ensure that every vote is counted." ... ""This has been an election of enormous interest to the American people and we think that's something that should be celebrated," Plouffe said. "Our opponents seem to have a different view."" ... "Obama counsel Bob Bauer pointed to examples in Montana, where Republicans have used change-of-address forms to improperly challenge new Democratic registrants (a federal judge called the GOP's tactics "political chicanery"); in Ohio, where Republicans challenged same-day registration and absentee voting (the 6th circuit court said the claim rested on "shaky ground"); in Michigan, where Republicans tried to use foreclosure lists to purge voters; and in Wisconsin, where the Republican Attorney General is suing the state's board of elections. (And just today, a GOP [GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican] operative was indicted for lying to the FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] about charges that he jammed the phones of the New Hampshire Democratic Party on Election Day 2002.)" -By Ari Berman -TheNation.com 
 John
McCain - Barack
Obama -  Illinois
-  Arizona
- New
Hampshire - 2008
Election
"Obama aide: McCain campaign 'sleaziest' in modern history." ... "[2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate and Illinois Senator] Sen. Barack Obama's spokesman on Saturday accused [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator] Sen. John McCain of "cynically running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern presidential campaign history."" ... "Obama, speaking to a crowd Saturday in Manchester, New Hampshire, said, "John McCain wants to have a debate about national security; let's have that debate. I warned that going into Iraq would distract us from Afghanistan. John McCain cheerleaded for it. John McCain was wrong, and I was right."" ... ""The McCain-[Sarah] Palin ticket, they don't want to debate the Obama-Biden ticket on issues because they are running on eight more years of what we've just seen. And they know it," the Democratic presidential nominee said. "As a consequence, what they're going to spend the next seven, eight weeks doing is trying to distract you." ... ""They're going to talk about pigs, and they're going to talk about lipstick; they're going to talk about Paris Hilton, they're going to talk about Britney Spears. They will try to distort my record, and they will try to undermine your trust in what the Democrats intend to do." -CNN 
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John
McCain - 
Rick
Davis - 
Russian
- Crime
- 
Money
- Politics
- 
Switzerland
- 
Ukraine
- Canada
- 
Britain
- Lawsuits
- 
Ga
- NH
- 
Virginia
- Arizona
- 2008
Election - 
US
- 
International
- "Aide
Helped Controversial Russian Meet McCain: Davis,
Then a Lobbyist, Has Spurred Debate in Reform-Focused Campaign." ... "A
top political adviser in [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate
and Arizona Senator] Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign helped
arrange an introduction in 2006 between McCain and a Russian billionaire
whose suspected links to anti-democratic and organized-crime figures are
so controversial that the U.S. [United States] government revoked his visa."
... "Rick Davis, who is now McCain's campaign manager, helped set up the
encounter between McCain and Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska in
[World Economic Summit at Davos] Switzerland during an international economic
conference. At the time, Davis was working for a lobbying firm and seeking
to do business with the billionaire." ... "With a net worth of more than
$13 billion, Deripaska is one of the richest men in Russia and a close
ally of President Vladimir Putin." ... "When Deripaska met McCain, Davis
was part of Davis Manafort, a lobbying firm that was being paid to provide
political advice to pro-Russian and oligarch-funded candidates in Ukraine,
according to interviews and news accounts." ... "Davis, who has been a
political adviser to McCain on and off since 1999, was part of a lobbying
firm that worked not only for Ukrainian politicians but also for telecommunications
firms, a lottery services provider and freight companies." ... "Davis's
firm provided political advice to a pro-Russian party in Ukraine during
the parliamentary elections of 2006." ... "He [Oleg Deripaska] has been
accused of shady business practices in lawsuits in the United States and
Britain, and his multiple-entry U.S. visa was yanked by the State Department
in the summer of 2006." ... "The first gathering that brought McCain and
Deripaska together occurred in January 2006, when McCain was part of a
congressional delegation trip. He and a small group of senators, including
[Georgia Republican Senator] Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.[Republican-Georgia])
and [New Hampshire Republican Senator] John E. Sununu (R-N.H.[Republican-New
Hampshire]), met for a drink near Davos, Switzerland, at an apartment where
they were greeted by Davis and Deripaska. The group then went to a dinner
at the ski chalet of Peter Munk, founder of Barrick Gold, the world's largest
gold-mining company, based in Toronto [Canada]. Participants at the buffet
dinner said Munk complimented his sometime business partner Deripaska during
his brief remarks to the 40 or so guests." ... "Later that month, Deripaska
wrote to Davis and his partner, GOP political consultant Paul J. Manafort,
to thank them for arranging the meeting. "Thank you so much for setting
up everything in Klosters so spectacularly," he wrote. "It was very interesting
to meet Senators McCain, Chambliss and Sununu in such an intimate setting.""
... "The letter was sent to Davis at the Reform Institute, a Virginia-based
nonprofit group that McCain helped start to promote many of his trademark
reform efforts, including increasing the transparency of lobbying and campaign
financing." ... "Davis was the institute's president from January 2003
until December 2005. During that time, he was also a registered lobbyist
at Davis Manafort. The institute was located at the Davis Manafort offices
until January 2006." ... "Seven months later, in August 2006, Davis was
present again at a social gathering that was also attended by McCain and
Deripaska, this time in Montenegro, another Eastern European country in
which Davis's firm was working." (1,
2,
3)
-By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and John Solomon with contributions
by Peter Baker -WashingtonPost
Mitt
Romney
- Politics
- 
Massachusetts
- New
Hampshire - Nevada
- 
South
Carolina - 2008
Election - "More
than a dozen lobbyists working to raise money for Romney."
... "Former Bay State Gov. [Massachusetts Republican Governor and 2008
Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Mitt Romney, who has cast himself
as a Washington outsider and blasted his opponents’ ties to lobbyists,
has more than a dozen federally registered lobbyists raising money for
him and several others advising his campaign, records show." ... "At a
Nashua event the day before the New Hampshire primary, Romney said, “I
don’t have years and years of favors to repay, lobbyists who have raised
all sorts of money for me.”" ... "But at least 13 lobbyists work as so-called
bundlers - those responsible for prodding deep-pocketed donors and generating
vast sums of money for the candidate - according to records compiled by
nonprofit Washington watchdog Public Citizen." ... "Romney, who faces a
critical doubleheader in South Carolina and Nevada today, got into a tussle
Thursday with an Associated Press reporter over the issue. “I don’t have
lobbyists running my campaign,” Romney remarked. “I don’t have lobbyists
that are tied to my . . .” The reporter interrupted him saying, “That is
not true,” and naming [lobbyist Ronald C.] Kaufman, which provoked a tense
exchange." -By Jessica Van Sack
-BostonHerald.com
John
McCain
- Law
- Investigation
- 
Ralph
Reed
- 
Jack
Abramoff
- 
Grover
Norquist
- 
Tom
DeLay
- Secret
- Corporate
- Religion
- 
History
- Georgia
- New
Hampshire - 2008
Election - 
Television
- Politics
- Opinion
- "Ralph
Reed's New Role." ... "Eighteen months ago, the political
career of Christian right golden boy [Republican] Ralph Reed came crashing
down, a casualty of his role in the [Republican] Jack Abramoff lobbying
scandal. This week, Reed has found a new calling. He appeared on CNN during
its New Hampshire primary coverage and again last night, labeled as a "GOP
[Grand Old Party=Republican] political analyst."" ... "Reed sounded none
too bullish about [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John
McCain's prospects going forward despite his big New Hampshire win. That's
perhaps not surprising, given the long history between the two." ... "McCain,
as chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, launched an investigation
of Abramoff's tribal lobbying that turned up a mountain of e-mails, including
some between Reed and Abramoff." ... "The e-mails revealed Abramoff's corrupt
dealings with politicians, as well as conservative religious and advocacy
groups. Reed often participated in Abramoff's business schemes, telling
him in a 1998 e-mail after stepping down as head of the Christian Coalition:
"I need to start humping in corporate accounts!"" ... "E-mails and testimony
before McCain's panel showed that Reed, who once branded gambling a "cancer"
on society, reaped millions of dollars in tribal casino proceeds that Abramoff
secretly routed to him through various non-profit front groups. Abramoff,
a lobbyist for the tribes, paid Reed to whip up "grassroots" Christian
opposition to prevent rival tribes from opening casinos." ... "Abramoff
sometimes routed his money to Reed through a group called Americans for
Tax Reform, run by conservative anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist. Norquist
lately has been attacking McCain's record on taxes, placing robo calls
to voters in New Hampshire." ... "Reed's much-publicized role in the Abramoff
scandal cost him the 2006 Republican primary for Georgia lieutenant governor--the
first rung on what was widely expected to be a climb into national politics."
... "Former House majority leader [Republican] Tom DeLay, who left Congress
and is still under investigation by the Justice Department in connection
with the Abramoff probe, predicted to MSNBC's Chris Matthews that McCain
won't fare well with conservatives in the South." -By
Susan Schmidt -WashingtonPost
Hillary
Clinton
- Barack
Obama
- 
John
Edwards
- 
Bill
Richardson
- 
Dennis
Kucinich - New
Hampshire - 2008
Election - "Clinton
Stuns Political World With New Hampshire Win." ...
"Hillary Clinton's 39%-37% win over Barack Obama in New Hampshire caught
almost everyone by surprise last night particularly pollsters, who had
universally forecast a comfortable Obama win. With 96% of precincts reporting,
John Edwards placed a distant 3rd with 17%, followed by Bill Richardson
with 5% and Dennis Kucinich with 1%, according to CNN's
numbers. This morning, media reports are describing the New York senator's
upset win as a startling political event. The Politico reports the primary's
outcome "made fools of the pollsters, pundits, operatives and even some
people in her own campaign who had predicted her imminent demise." The
AP
calls it a "startling upset," one that resurrects Clinton's "bid for the
White House." Exit polls, adds the AP, suggest Clinton's win was cemented
on the support of female voters, who "deserted her last week" in Iowa and
"returned to her column in New Hampshire." Clinton also "was winning handily
among registered Democrats. Obama led her by an even larger margin" than
in Iowa "among independents, but he suffered from a falloff in turnout
among young voters." The New
York Times also reports Clinton "rode a wave of female support" to
victory, adding "several New Hampshire women, some of them undecided until
Tuesday, said that a galvanizing moment for them had been Mrs. Clinton's
unusual display of emotion on Monday as she described the pressures of
the race and her goals for the nation -- a moment Mrs. Clinton herself
acknowledged as a breakthrough."" -USNews.com
John
McCain
- Mitt
Romney
- 
Mike
Huckabee - 
Rudy
Giuliani
- 
Ron
Paul
- 
Fred
Thompson
- New
Hampshire - 2008
Election - "McCain
Stages "Lazarus-Like" Comeback In New Hampshire."
... "While most analysts remain unsure of its effect on the race for the
GOP nomination, John McCain's victory in New Hampshire is being hailed
as an remarkable comeback for a campaign that had been given up for dead
last summer. The Chicago
Tribune reports McCain "won with 37 percent compared to 32 percent
for Romney, who was forced to re-examine his candidacy, which was premised
on winning Iowa and New Hampshire to create a national juggernaut." Mike
Huckabee placed 3rd with 11%, followed by Rudy Giuliani, 9%; Ron Paul,
8%; and Fred Thompson, 1%." ... "USA
Today reports "political analyst Charles Cook called McCain's victory
'the greatest comeback since Lazarus,'" and "attributes it to 'an enormous
vacuum in the Republican Party.'" Using the same metaphor, the New
York Times reports McCain "revived his presidential bid with a Lazarus-like
victory." The Times adds that "to cheers of 'Mac is back,' Mr. McCain told
supporters last night: 'My friends, you know I'm past the age when
I can claim the noun "kid," no matter what adjective precedes it. But tonight,
we sure showed them what a comeback looks like.'""
-USNews.com
John
Edwards
- New
Hampshire - 2008
Election - "Edwards:
'In this race until the convention': 'Two races down,
48 states to go,' he says after third place N.H. [New Hampshire] finish."
... "[2008 Election] Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards took
his third-place New Hampshire finish in stride on Tuesday, pledging to
carry his battle forward despite difficult odds. “I am in this race until
the convention,” he told supporters." ... "“Two races down, 48 states left
to go,” Edwards said." ... "“Up until now, about half of 1 percent of Americans
have voted. Ninety-nine percent plus have not voted. And those 99 percent
deserve to have their voices heard because we have had too much in America
of people’s voices not being heard,” Edwards said."
-AP via -MSNBC
John
McCain
- Mitt
Romney
- New
Hampshire - Arizona
- Massachusetts- 2008
Election - "Schneider:
Bush has clear effect." ... "Roughly half of [New
Hampshire] Republican primary voters had a negative opinion of the [Republican
President] Bush administration, and those voters significantly went for
[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and] Arizona Sen. [Senator]
John McCain by nearly a 2-to-1 margin. Of the GOP voters who said they
had a positive opinion of the Bush administration, 37 percent voted for
[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and] former Massachusetts
Gov. [Governor] Mitt Romney." -By Bill Schneider
-CNN
John
Edwards
- New
Hampshire - 2008
Election - 
Healthcare
- 
Jobs
- Poverty
- US
- Global
- 
Climate
- 
Environment
- "Edwards:
Two down, 48 to go." ... "[2008 Election Democratic
Presidential Candidate and former North Carolina Senator] Former Sen. John
Edwards painted himself as the candidate of the voiceless Tuesday night
after tracking a distant third in the New Hampshire Democratic primary."
... ""We have had too much of voices not being heard," he said to an enthusiastic
crowd of supporters. " … That's what this battle is about. It's not about
me. It's about the cause of giving voice to all those whose voices are
not being heard in this democracy."" ... "Edwards pledged to continue his
fight to expand healthcare coverage, to fight global warming, protect the
environment, end poverty and create new jobs." ... ""We know what needs
to be done," he said. "The only question is whether we have the backbone
and the will and the determination to get there.""
-CNN
John
Edwards
- Hillary
Clinton
- 
Families
- Health-Care
- 
Drug
- Corporations
- Multinationals
- US
- Jobs
- 
California
- New
Hampshire - 2008
Election - "Edwards
focuses on health in final campaign push." ... "[2008
Election Democratic President] John Edwards appealed to the emotions of
New Hampshire voters in his final campaign push last night by bringing
on stage with him three families who had suffered from lack of health care."
... "On a 36-hour non-stop, marathon bus tour round New England, he put
health care at the core of his message." ... "At a rally in Elk Lodge,
Dover [New Hampshire], he lambasted health insurance firms and drug companies,
as well as multinationals who have transferred US jobs overseas. "The powerful
interests in Washington have an iron-clad clasp on your democracy," he
said." ... "The families with him included a mother, Hilda Sarkisyan, whose
17-year-old daughter Natalie died from cancer on December 20 in California
after an insurance company failed to pay up for a liver transplant that
could have saved her." ... "Edwards said: "This should never happen in
the United States of America. Things have to change."" ... "Hillary Clinton's
team accused him of exploiting the families. Edwards, who has been outspoken
in criticism of Clinton, retorted that the Clinton campaign had "no conscience"."
-By Ewen MacAskill -Guardian.co.uk
John
Edwards
- Barack
Obama - Hillary
Clinton
- Health
- Industry
- New
Hampshire - Nevada
- South
Carolina
- Illinois
- 2008
Election - "What
if it's a two-man Democratic race? New Hampshire
may leave Clinton on the ropes, reshaping the contest." ... "Imagine a
whole new race for the Democratic presidential nomination: a two-man contest
between the 2004 vice presidential nominee, [2008 Election Democratic Presidential
Candidate] John Edwards, and the rookie phenomenon of 2008, [2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidate and Illinois Senator] Sen. Barack Obama."
... "If [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] Hillary Clinton
were to suffer a defeat of large proportions on Tuesday night in the New
Hampshire primary, and if her star were to fade in the succeeding contests
in Nevada and South Carolina, she might either quit the race or cease to
be a dominant factor." ... "Elizabeth Edwards, the candidate’s wife and
most outspoken campaign advocate, pressed the critique of Obama on Monday
at a stop in Bedford, N.H. [New Hampshire.]" ... "“Sen. Obama, when he
was in the state Senate in Illinois, took money from the health insurance
industry at the same time that he was suggesting an amendment that was
favorable to the health insurance industry and was unfavorable to the people
of the Illinois,” she told a small crowd." ... "She also slammed Obama
for having a lobbyist as co-chairman of his New Hampshire campaign." ...
"[John Edwards strategist Joe Trippi:] “For a year everybody was told this
contest is between him (Obama) and her (Clinton),” Trippi argued. “And
during that year, the national audience has learned quite a bit about him,
most of it amazingly good: amazing speaker, incredibly inspirational —
and yet where is he nationally? He’s at 25 percent. The Rasmussen Poll,
which is the only national one I’ve seen since Iowa, has him at 25. I’ll
tell you why: They have massive doubts about this guy — on their own.”"
... "In other words, even without advertising from Edwards pointing out
flaws in the Obama image or record, many Democratic voters have doubts
about Obama." ... "“If you were going to fall under his spell, wouldn’t
you have done it by now?” asked Trippi." (1, 2)
-By Tom Curry -MSNBC
John
Edwards
- New
Hampshire - 
Iowa
- North
Carolina - California
- Teenager
- Health
- Company
- Drug
- 
Christmas
- Working
- 
People
- 2008
Election - "Underdog
Edwards says he won't give up the fight for the White House."
... "The former senator from North Carolina [2008 Election Democratic Presidential
Candidate John Edwards] sought to bring added emotional wallop to his message
before Tuesday's primary by campaigning with the family of a Northridge
[California] teenager who died after her insurance company delayed approval
for a liver transplant." ... "The newest participants in the Edwards campaign
were the Sarkisyans of the San Fernando Valley [California], whose 17-year-old
daughter, Nataline, died just before Christmas of complications from leukemia.
After much debate, the family's insurance company had approved a liver
transplant, but she died hours later." ... ""When I talk about what insurance
companies and drug companies are doing to America, this is what I mean,"
Edwards said to a crowd of about 500 in Manchester [New Hampshire], where
some were moved to tears by the family's story. "This has real effects
on real people's lives."" ... "Grigor Sarkisyan told the audience how he
had promised to buy his daughter a white car after she got out of the hospital,
but had to buy a white coffin instead. He said he thought he had done everything
he was supposed to as a father: working hard, supporting his family and
buying health insurance he thought would take care of them if they got
sick." ... "His wife, Hilda Sarkisyan, had heard Edwards' speech Thursday
after his second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses and called the candidate's
campaign. The family arrived in New Hampshire on Sunday morning." ... "The
couple urged voters to support Edwards, saying he is the lone candidate
who will fight for Americans against such powerful interests as insurance
companies." ... ""They cannot tell us who's going to live and who's going
to die," Hilda Sarkisyan said." -By Seema Mehta and
James Rainey -LAtimes
John
Edwards
- Hillary
Clinton
- Barack
Obama - Health-Care
- New
Hampshire - Iowa
- North
Carolina - 
New
York
- 2008
Election - "Edwards
rebukes Clinton in Democratic debate." ... "[2008
Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] Democrat Hillary Clinton, attempting
to slow [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] Barack Obama's
surging campaign, went on the attack on Saturday and drew a sharp rebuke
from [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] John Edwards for
defending the status quo." ... "In a combative debate three days before
a too-close-to-call New Hampshire primary, Clinton questioned Obama's health-care
plan and cast doubt on his ability to deliver on his calls for change in
Washington." ... "Edwards, a former North Carolina senator, upbraided the
New York senator for criticizing Obama and noted her third-place finish
in Iowa on Thursday, when Obama captured the first big prize of the presidential
campaign and Edwards finished second." ... ""I didn't hear these kinds
of attacks from Senator Clinton when she was ahead," Edwards said. "Every
time he speaks out for change, every time I fight for change, the forces
of status quo are going to attack -- every single time."" ... "Clinton
criticized Obama for shifting in recent years from supporting a single-payer,
government-run health-care plan to one that does not mandate insurance
coverage for all Americans." (1, 2,
3)
-By John Whitesides with contributions by Peter Cooney
-Reuters
John
Edwards
- Barack
Obama
- Politics
- 2008
Election - 2004
Election - Iowa
- New
Hampshire - Working
- People
- Investment
- Civil
Rights - Lawyer
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