Democratic candidates in New Hampshire in time for breakfast

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CNN: January 3, 2008
Granite State gears up for the show

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN) ....New Hampshire is gearing up for its turn in the limelight, and getting ready for the imminent arrival of candidates, campaign staff and journalists....

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On the Democratic side, all the candidates are storming the Granite State in time for breakfast. Sen. Hillary Clinton returns with former President Bill Clinton for an early morning event Friday in Nashua. Sen. Barack Obama begins his Friday in Portsmouth with a morning rally, while New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson makes a breakfast stop at the Merrimack in Manchester. Sen. Chris Dodd hits the ground early Friday morning (NOTE: Senator Dodd has dropped out of the race), and Rep. Dennis Kucinich has been in the Granite State since December 31. But Sen. John Edwards takes the early-bird prize on the Democratic side Friday, with a 6:15 a.m. campaign stop in Manchester.

They’ll find a race that promises to be nearly as tight as Iowa’s. A Franklin Pierce/University/WBZ poll released yesterday found Clinton and Obama neck-and-neck at 32 and 28 percent, with Edwards in third place with 19 percent....The GOP race is even closer in a Suffolk/WHDH poll released today, which finds McCain leading Romney 29 to 25 percent. Huckabee has 12 percent in the survey, and Giuliani has 9 percent. But the same poll finds a far different picture on the Democratic side, with Clinton at 39 percent to Obama’s 23 percent and Edwards’ 17 percent. That poll was conducted January 1-2, and has a margin of error for each party subsample of plus or minus 4.38 percent.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/03/granite-state-gears-up-for-the-show/