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January 4, 2008

In N.H.: Full court press for Obama / Photo

Journal photo / Gretchen Ertl
Two Concord High School students hang a flag today inside the New Hampshire school's gymnasium in anticipation of a visit from U.S. Sen. Barack Obama.

CONCORD, N.H. -- Two thousand people sheathed in fleece and down have crowded Concord High School gym for the arrival of Sen. Barack Obama, who trumped Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in yesterday's Iowa Democratic caucus and now sets sight on the New Hampshire presidential primary.

Basketball nets have been pulled up where on a normal day the school's Crimson Tide work on free throws. But it's Jan. 4, so the Democrats and Republicans who triumphed or merely survived Iowa are flooding New Hampshire today to try to keep their momentum going, or find what they couldn't in Iowa, for the primary four days away.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, triumphant in the Republican caucus in Iowa where he easily beat out former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for the top spot, is expected to play some bass guitar this afternoon during a stop at New England College in Henniker.

Action movie star Chuck Norris -- prominently visible on the victory speech podium with Huckabee in Iowa last night -- is expected to accompany Huckabee to to the college stop, the college says on its Web site.

Clinton, the New York senator and wife of former President Clinton, finished third just behind North Carolina Sen. John Edwards in Iowa, which has been cast as a significant setback. She started today in Nashua with an airport appearance. She said it takes experience for the leadership of being president and, without mentioning Obama by name, said voting for him would be a "leap of faith."

Obama began with a Portsmouth airport rally, then did some door-to-door meet-and-greet in Hampton, along New Hampshire's coast. He's headed to Concord, the state capitol.

-- Journal staff writer Scott MacKay covering the campaign trail in New Hampshire, as told to projo.com staff writer Michael McKinney

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