The problems coming out of New Hampshire are very, very serious. While these results may distress Democrats who support Mrs. Clinton, and Republicans who support Mr. Romney and Mr. Giuliani, the vote anomalies in the New Hampshire primary are larger than the interests of any one candidate. See below:

The unofficial vote tallies in the New Hampshire primary can be divided into two categories, votes counted by hand and votes counted by machine.

On the Democratic side,

·        Where votes were counted by machine, Clinton came out with about 40 percent and Obama with about 35 percent.

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57^th in blog series on the administration push to war. The Christmas holiday season of 2002 sees no abatement of the project, even while a December Los Angeles Times poll shows that most Americans still do not believe that the White House has made the case for war with Iraq.
December 20-31, 2002:

Dec. 20-21, 2002 – The State Department hosts a ‘Future of Iraq Project’ working group on oil and energy in Washington. The gathering is hosted by the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs in State, where Vice President’s daughter Elizabeth is on ...   more »