The dangers of buying advertising ahead of time: I just heard a Joe Biden ad here in New Hampshire. The veteran senator dropped out of the race last night.

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Iowa roundup.
To start off, it’s impossible to overstate how significant last night is to American politics. And also Nevada politics (though you’ll have to wait for the Sun print edition for that analysis.) Voters in Iowa roundly rejected their respective party establishments, as noted in this New York Times analysis.
People want something different.
What […]

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MANCHESTER, N.H. — It’s hard to convey how utterly saturated this place is with presidential politics.
My waiter at a Mexican restaurant (no flavor, blech!) is Daniel from Australia. He came here around Labor Day to write a book about the New Hampshire primary. He ran out of money a few weeks ago and so now […]

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MANCHESTER, N.H. — It’s 12 degrees, and the sun is going down.
I just walked on Manchester’s old-fashioned main drag, which is Elm Street. As readers/viewers of “The Virgin Suicides” know, the elms have been largely destroyed by Dutch Elm Disease.
They’ve converted many old shuttered mills here into office and living space. The Obama campaign in […]

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This comes via Ben Smith at Sun partner Politico. It’s Washington Post reporting on Biden-Obama deal.
A source close to the Biden campaign described a possible arrangement, now under discussion between the two camps, that could apply to certain precincts where Biden can’t meet the 15 percent viability threshold, but where he is backed by […]

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Sean Hannity last night on Fox News was rather beside himself that Democrats actually believe the American public wants them not to renew the Bush tax cuts, to “retreat” in Iraq and to “nationalize” health care.
Of course, he’s misrepresenting their positions, but even aside from that, he shows how the electorate’s movement since 2004 doesn’t […]

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MANCHESTER, N.H. — Best celeb sighting: Ben Jones, who played “Cooter” in the TV version of “The Dukes of Hazzard.”
He’s endorsed John Edwards. Apparently this man was in Congress. Who knew?

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CONCORD, N.H. — Driving up from my parents’ house in southern New England, the snow banks grew larger, the fields and the trees weighed down with white. As I drove the country roads through central Massachusetts and into New Hampshire, I began to see how ridiculous this whole New Hampshire primary thing must seem to […]

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The January issue of Vanity Fair has a damaging story about Rudy Giuliani detailing his company’s unsavory clients and conflicts of interest. (Wait for it…the inevitable Nevada connection is coming.)
One section in particular caught my eye. Giuliani partners took on a penny stock company called Applied DNA Sciences.
Penny stocks are defined as those that trade […]

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Illinois Sen. Barack Obama’s chief strategist, David Axelrod held a conference call with Nevada reporters to announce the Obama campaign is going on the air with a TV ad. They’re the first to do so.
The message: Obama will fight special interests and Washington lobbyists.

A Ken Silverstein Harper’s profile of Obama, which showed how comfortable he’s […]

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