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...state's heavily Baptist electorate. For weeks the two men have praised each other talents and made common cause against their well-funded adversary, Mitt Romney, who will try to salvage his wounded campaign next week with a win in Michigan on January 15, four days before the vote in South Carolina. "It's not that we don't recognize that we are competing for the same job," Huckabee said of McCain, last week. "But I think we also recognize that it can be done in a civil manner. And we are both committed to that...
...before the election, Clemons had an army of 4,000 volunteers, knocking on 105,000 New Hampshire doors - an impressive number, given that her total vote came to around 110,000. It helped that "we knew who our voters were going in," Clemons says. Early on, Clinton's team had put together a list of 70,000 of her most likely supporters, slicing and dicing the data by every demographic measure of education level, income and gender to figure out whom they needed to pursue. The answer: "It was women. ... We knew we had to go after those women...
...Clemons also made some other bets. For instance, his team figured Iowa "would come out, at best, a muddle," he said. As it happened, it was much worse for Clinton than that. But Clemons had aggressively pushed her supporters to vote absentee, beginning in December - in other words, "to get their votes in before Iowa even happened...
...residents commute to jobs in Boston, which means they could be prevented by traffic - or after-work fatigue - from making it to the polls. And schools such as the University of New Hampshire, Keene State College and Plymouth State University - which have mostly in-state students who register to vote on campus - would still be on winter break come primary day. Clinton's campaign urged them to vote absentee before going home...
...just think it's clear in both cases. As we joke about it, I've had spirited exchanges at town hall meetings. And as you know, one of those guys that has had a spirited exchange [with McCain] showed up at the rally... and said "We're still not voting for you. I'm not going to vote for you. But I came to say [I respect...