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The Exeter Book Election

By Jon Greenberg on Wednesday, September 12, 2007.

A new poll out today from the Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg News gives Hillary Clinton a strong lead in the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary. On the Republican side, Mitt Romney holds a narrow lead over Rudy Giuliani.

But there are polls and there are polls and in our Primary Place town of Exeter, New Hampshire Public Radio's Jon Greenberg came across a very different measure of candidate popularity.

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25 in 25: Bill Gardner

By Laura Knoy on Wednesday, September 12, 2007.

Our 25 in 25 series continues with Bill Gardner, New Hampshire's longstanding Secretary of State and steadfast protector of our First-In-The-Nation Primary status. He has been described as stubborn, inscrutable and very influential. We'll talk with him about how he came to be in this powerful perch, the many challenges to the New Hampshire Primary over the years and how he sees the current election calendar shaking out.

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  • Bill Gardner, New Hampshire Secretary of State
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Infamous Scribblers

By Liz Bulkley on Tuesday, September 11, 2007.

If you think the press is experiencing a volatile period today, it's nothing compared to what our founding fathers faced. George Washington was frustrated by it, John Adams disdained it, and Thomas Jefferson figured out how to simply manipulate it. We'll talk with Eric Burns, the author of Infamous Scribblers about the rowdy beginnings of American journalism.
This program was first broadcast March 12, 2007

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