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...independent as the media and political campaigns usually make them out to be. Andrew Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center and the state's pre-eminent pollster, says the great majority of those who register as undeclared actually think of themselves - and consistently vote - as either Republicans or Democrats. "They're not really independents, and it's very misleading to call them that," says Smith, who estimates that only 8% of the New Hampshire electorate truly wanders from one party primary to the other. What's more, he says, those who don't declare a party...
...Most conservative Iowans may not fall completely in either camp. "There are probably some people who are bifurcated easily," says Ayers - they are either head people or heart people - "and there are a whole bunch of people who are torn between the both." Ayers admits, "I can look at the two appeals [of Romney and Huckabeee] and find something appealing in both. Frankly, I don't know how I'd sort it out and I do this for a living...
...fitting start to a campaign that began early last year with no annointed frontrunner-in-waiting in either party and is likely to remain closely fought and hard to call over the next 10 months...
...John Edwards, meanwhile, has spent more time in the state than anyone in either party and remains a popular second choice among likely caucus goers who don't favor him as their first choice, a key indicator in a process that can reward also-rans when third-tier candidates don't meet the 15% threshold at most caucus sites. "Its not just a question of who turns their voters out," said Joe Trippi, Edwards's campaign manager. "It's a question of who knows how to work the caucus system...
...when, faced by hundreds of riot police, the O.D.M. called off plans for tens of thousands of its activists to march to Uhuru Park in the center of Nairobi to "inaugurate" their leader, Raila Odinga, as the "people's president." Party workers said the protest was merely being postponed, either until Friday or Tuesday...