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Campaign 2012
5:00 pm
Wed November 9, 2011

Mitt Romney Still Looking Like Top Contender in GOP Primary

With 60 days until the NH primary, people are wondering if anyone will be able to catch Mitt Romney.

The strengths of Mitt Romney’s NH campaign are on full display in these 25 seconds.

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Campaign 2012 - Event Round-up
2:01 pm
Tue November 8, 2011

Political Event Round-up

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11/8 at 12 pm - Raymond Republicans host Rick Santorum at the Raymond Safety Complex

11/9 at 12 pm - Buddy Roemer visiting Cashin Senior Center in Manchester

11/9 at 6 pm - Buddy Roemer hosting a town hall meeting at the McConnell Center

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Campaign 2012
4:21 pm
Sat November 5, 2011

Differences Between Romney, Cain In Full View

Originally published on Fri November 4, 2011 1:58 pm

Herman Cain and Mitt Romney, the two current front-runners in the Republican presidential race, spoke in Washington on Friday at a conference for the conservative group Americans for Prosperity.

Their speeches came as a new Washington Post-ABC poll found they're running almost even among Republican voters. And on Friday, the two candidates underscored the differences in their appeal to activists.

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Word of Mouth - Segment
8:02 am
Sat November 5, 2011

Word of Mouth for November 5th 2011: Part 2

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GalleyCat's Jason Boog talks about Amazon's foray into the publishing biz with some major authors signing on. And Alyssa Rosenberg, culture critic and contributor to The Atlantic, talks about how campaigns on shows like Glee compare to real-life political races.

NH News
5:16 pm
Fri November 4, 2011

High Court Says Public Pension Names Fall Under Right-to-Know

The state Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that names and individual pension amounts are public information. The ruling opens the door for media to scrutinize how much former public workers collect in retirement.

About 18 months ago, the Union Leader asked to see the names and payouts to the 500 individuals with the highest pensions.

Citing vague language in the Right-to-Know law, the New Hampshire Retirement System declined to hand over the documents.

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NH News
4:40 pm
Fri November 4, 2011

Senators Call For Electric Grid Investigation

With power still out from last weekend’s snow storm, New Hampshire’s senators are pressuring federal regulators for answers.

New Hampshire’s senators are asking the federal agencies that oversee electrical grids to identify why the power keeps going out.

More than three hundred thousand people in New Hampshire were left in the dark and cold after the storm Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte says that’s unacceptable.

“With the ice storm there was a pretty lengthy outage and with this storm there was an outage and we want to make sure the grid is where it should be.”

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