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The American Prospect
by Harold Meyerson

01/10/08

All 50 states hold elections, but only New Hampshire raises the dead. John McCain and Hillary Clinton, like Bill before her, have now been saved from political extinction by Granite State voters, who have managed in the process to set up a protracted contest for the Democratic presidential nod. (The Republicans were never going to avoid one.) The battle in the Democratic Party features divisions that the world’s oldest political party has never before experienced, just as it has never before seen candidates like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. The gender gap, up to now a phenomenon that distinguished one party’s supporters from the other’s, has become a phenomenon that distinguishes one Democrat’s supporters from another’s...

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